Asia

Ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP), where President Xi Jinping is expected to be confirmed as CCP General Secretary for a third term, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Hana Young said: “President Xi’s…

A mob of a dozen people killed on Saturday two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, which houses over a million refugees, police said. According to the Armed Police Battalion, the elite police unit tasked with security in the…

China has intensified a crackdown on Uyghur and Kazakh Muslims with mass arrests and detentions ahead of the national congress of the Chinese Community Party (CCP), says a report. Over the past few weeks, law enforcers in the Ili Kazakh…

A report prepared by the United Nations and the Red Cross concluded on Monday October 10th that entire regions will become unfit for life in the coming decades due to increasing heat waves. This year’s heat wave poses threats to…

Several government agencies on Monday October 10th backed a bill that seeks to set up burial grounds for Muslims in public cemeteries. Many Muslim Filipinos go through a complicated and costly process in sending the remains of their departed loved…

The Myanmar military committed a horrific crime by killing the Arakanese teacher Shafiq Islam. The killing of Shafiq Islam by Myanmar intelligence caused a wave of sadness and anger among the citizens, who expressed their dissatisfaction with the excessive violence…

More than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year, the United Nations children’s agency has said. The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government…

The United Nations Human Rights Council voted, Thursday October 6th, against holding a debate on alleged abuses by China in Xinjiang, a major setback for Western countries.  The move came after former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet…

On Tuesday October 4th, the Dubai government inaugurated a Hindu temple that houses 16 “Hindu deities”, with the aim of providing places of worship for all denominations; while Muslim minority in India is suffering from violations and acts of displacement…

The Foreign Policy said that the Tajik government is waging a brutal war against the Shias in the country, specifically in the autonomous region of Gorno-Badakhshan, while the people are trying to resist what is described as the authoritarian dictatorship…