MOSCOW – Tens of thousands of Russians flooded downtown Moscow on Saturday to demand an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's rule, braving sub-zero temperatures to keep the protest movement alive one month before a presidential election that Putin is still expected to win.
BEIJING – The World Bank warned Wednesday of a possible slump in global economic growth and urged developing countries to prepare for shocks that could be more severe than the 2008 crisis.
WASHINGTON — The United States moved to restore full diplomatic relations with Myanmar on Friday, rewarding the sweeping political and economic changes that the country’s new civilian government has made, including a cease-fire with ethnic rebels and, only hours before, the release of hundreds of political prisoners.
Myanmar will release 651 prisoners starting Friday under a new presidential pardon, with anticipation mounting that many of those to be freed will be political detainees.
The US has issued a stern warning to Vietnam over a heightened clampdown on dissidents which has caused alarm among western governments and human rights organisations.
VIENTIANE, LAOS (BosNewsLife)-- Authorities in southern Laos have fined seven regional church leaders for "violating local customs and beliefs" after torturing them for some two weeks, Christian rights activists told BosNewsLife Friday, December 30.
Days after church leaders arrested, officials target 47 Christians in neighboring village.
Nearly 50 Christians await their fate today after officials in Natoo village, southern Laos, on Wednesday (Dec. 21) summoned four of their leaders and warned that they would evict the entire church “within 24 hours” if they refused to give up their faith.
Opium cultivation has surged in Myanmar and Laos as high prices attract impoverished farmers to grow the illicit crop, particularly in conflict areas, according to a UN report published Thursday.
U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Friday a major new diplomatic initiative responding to positive changes in Burma, saying he is sending Secretary of State Hillary Clinton there next month.
BEIJING – On most mornings, the senior editorial staffers at China's hyper-nationalistic Global Times newspaper flash their identification badges at the uniformed guard outside their compound in eastern Beijing and roll into the office between 9 and 10 a.m. They leave around midnight. In the hectic intervening 14 hours, they commission and edit articles and editorials on topics ranging from asserting China's unassailable claims to the South China Sea to the United States' nefarious role in the global financial crisis to the mind-boggling liquor bills of China's state-owned enterprises, to assemble a slim, 16-page tabloid with a crimson banner and eye-popping headlines. In the late afternoon, staffers propose topics for the all-important lead editorial to editor-in-chief Hu Xijin, who makes all final decisions and has an instinct for the jugular.
The July 9, 2011 conference concept emerged from a group of young Hmong women who wanted to call attention to domestic violence in the Hmong community and the ineffectiveness of traditional clan-based approaches to addressing this growing concern. Attendees at that event in 2009 included members of the statewide 18 Clan Council, along with numerous local leaders in the Hmong community, and numbered over 300.
You are cordially invited to join the important conference, organized by the Studies and Researches Center on Laos and Asia, partnering with the Union for Lao Nation.
BANGKOK — The threat has loomed large over this giant metropolis for weeks: Floodwaters could rapidly swamp glitzy downtown Bangkok, ruining treasured ancient palaces and chic boutiques on skyscraper-lined avenues in the heart of the Thai economy.
ThaiLao Human Rights Conference will be taking place on October 14, 2011 at 2103 Longworth House office building Capital Hill, Washington, DC from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Raised in the hierarchical society of traditional Laos, Bounsang Khamkeo earned a doctorate in political science in France, only to return home in 1973 to a county in deep political chaos and turmoil in the wake of the Vietnam War.
An elderly Hmong man and his son were allegedly killed when the forced repatriation of several dozen hilltribe people to Laos last week turned violent, according to rights advocates in the US.
Human rights activists are reporting an increased incidence of rape against Kachin women in areas of recent military attacks by government forces in northern Myanmar.
A report issued by the London-based human rights group also said security forces were guilty of excesses, including extrajudicial killings, that endangered civilians.
DUBLIN, September 26 (CDN) — Authorities in Laos forcibly confiscated a church building in Savannakhet Province on Sept. 14 due to lack of official permission; the church had not applied for a building permit as the country routinely denies such applications, sources said.
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