The push for legalizing same-sex marriage in Thailand gained momentum in mid-2012 when LGBTQ activist Natee Theerarojanapong and his partner were denied marriage registration because of their gender, leading to the drafting of a civil partnership bill in 2013.
Junta shelling killed four civilians and injured seven others in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, locals told Radio Free Asia on Tuesday.
According to the World Health According to the World Health Organization,over 70% of men and more than 30% of women in Zambia drink alcohol excessively, too often.In order to help people who are recovering from alcohol addiction, some non-profit organizations are stepping in.
Search-and-recovery personnel kept digging through the mud to recover more bodies from a landslide that struck a southern Philippine mining village last week, as the death toll reached at least 68 with 51 more people still missing, officials said Monday.
“Home” means different things to young Uyghurs – some of whom may have not even visited their ancestral homeland in China’s far western Xinjiang region.
The aim of one nonprofit organization in Nigeria is to digitize the country’s past. Old copies of newspapers from 1960—the year Nigeria gained independence—to the present are being uploaded for the purpose.
Results of Pakistan’s general elections on February 8 show that, in spite of a military-backed crackdown on his Tehreek-e-Insaf party, candidates backed by former prime minister Imran Khan won the most seats in the national legislature.However, the results might not push the military to give up its hold on the political landscape.
Voting in national elections is scheduled to take place for an estimated four billion people worldwide through 2024. While the candidates and issues differ in each country, one big concern is uniting vote watchers.
Six member states of the African Union are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, to discuss the continent’s feed and fodder crisis. A large number of the continent’s countries depend on having an adequate supply of feed for their cattle. Adopted by certain farmers, Juncao is a Chinese-engineered grass that is advertised as high yielding and mature fast.
Myanmar border guards and soldiers fled into Bangladesh earlier this week after losing contact with their commanders during fierce fighting in Rakhine state, an interpreter present during their conversation with Bangladesh officials told BenarNews on Friday.