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Ukrainian Community in Indiana Forms Groups to Help Motherland
Indonesia’s parliament passed a broad new criminal code on Tuesday that punishes sex outside marriage and cohabitation between unwed partners, in what critics called a threat to civil liberties in Southeast Asia’s most populous country.
A group of 25 youths from Sagaing region’s Shwebo township has been captured by junta troops, according to locals.
Thousands of people rallied across Indonesia on Monday against the impending passage of a new criminal code, saying its provisions violate civic freedoms such as by punishing sex outside marriage with a year in prison.
Police have arrested hundreds of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders, field-level organizers, and other members of the opposition party in the past five days ahead of a massive rally it plans to hold in Dhaka next weekend, BNP officials alleged Monday.
Police and junta troops detained well-known Myanmar religious leader Hkalam Samson at Mandalay International Airport as he tried to fly abroad for medical treatment.
Myanmar journalist Myo San Soe has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on two terrorism counts by a court at Pyapon Prison in Ayeyarwady region.
China’s money isn’t welcome in Malaita, a fiercely independent province of the Solomon Islands led by a politician who says it’s wrong to befriend “these people” who don’t believe in democracy.
A court in Shanghai has secretly sentenced Shanghai-based housing activist Chen Jianfang to four-and-a-half years in jail, RFA has learned
Iman Muttaqin Yusof/Kuala Lumpur Tuanku Muhriz Tuanku Munawir, chairman of the Council of Rulers (front center), walks with King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah (front left) and other rulers at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 30, 2022.Handout photo/National Palace Office Via RFA Malaysia’s Council of Rulers called Wednesday on politicians to stop stoking …
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