The clashes between the police and the demonstrators intensified in Bangladesh on Friday, the second day of a “full closure” declared by the students demanding the end of a job quota system.A Benarnews journalist saw border guards shooting three young people near his residence while the demonstrators vandalized a nearby government office and burned his furniture in the street.Benarnews confirmed 63 deaths on Friday and “thousands” of injured people, after contacting hospitals in the Dacca region. 32 other people died in street clashes earlier in the week.The authorities suspended the Metro Rail Service and prohibited all the rallies and motorcycle…
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Bangladesh burned and bled Thursday, with dozens killed in clashes between the security forces, pro -government groups and student demonstrators, and buildings have shown by agitators – the deadliest civil disorders in the country for more than a decade.Hospital authorities have confirmed in Benarnews that 19 people had been killed and hundreds of others injured Thursday, the most violent day of a week in which seven people have already lost their lives. Agency France-Press reported a higher assessment of 25 deaths.Apart from those in the street, the whole country closed on Thursday, after students in favor of the end of…
Thai commercial banks, regulators and the anti-money laundering bureau are considering measures to prevent Myanmar from acquiring weapons through Thailand’s banking system, a Thai lawmaker said during a meeting with a U.N. special rapporteur.Tom Andrews, special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar, said in a report last month that Thailand had become Myanmar’s main supplier of military equipment through the international banking system, and he called on financial institutions to do more to prevent Myanmar’s junta from acquiring weapons.Andrews, in Bangkok to address a parliamentary security committee this week, called for steps to cut off arms deliveries to Myanmar’s junta,…
Chinese troops arrived in Laos for a two-week exercise with the Laotian army on the outskirts of Vientiane, just weeks after a similar training in Cambodia that is part of Beijing’s efforts to strengthen ties with Southeast Asian countries.Some 300 Chinese soldiers and about 900 Lao military personnel are participating in the Laos-China Friendship Shield-2024 exercise, which began on July 5, according to Lt. Col. Santi Chanthalangsone, who leads training for the Lao armed forces.laos-china railway This image released by Chinese government media shows military vehicles at Phonhong Station in Phonhong, Vientiane province (central Laos), July 1, 2024. (Xinhua News…
Four Filipino crew members were injured Tuesday when Chinese coast guard ships used water cannons to block Philippine ships carrying supplies to Manila’s military outpost at Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the South China Sea, Philippine officials said.Chinese and Philippine ships have been engaged in a cat-and-mouse chase in the waters around the shoal for more than a year, with Manila accusing Beijing of “aggressively” trying to prevent its ships from delivering supplies to Philippine troops stationed in Ayungin.Tuesday’s incident marked the first time Manila said people were injured during the maneuvers. China claims almost the entire South China Sea,…
Update at 10:47 p.m. He on 2023-07-03Hong Kong police published arrest warrants on Monday and offered bonuses for eight activists and former legislators who fled the city, claiming that they are sought after in “serious crimes” under the Hong Kong National Security Act.Police have appointed former pro-democracy legislators Nathan Law, Ted Hui and Dennis Kwok, a political activist and lobbyist based in the United States Anna Kwok and the legal scientist Kevin Yam among research, and offered bonuses of 1 million HK (US $ 127,700) to obtain information that could lead to arrests.”We attach great importance to this case, and…
As a former resident and frequent traveler in Hong Kong, R had never considered himself a political threat under the city’s national security law, which inaugurated a continuous repression against dissent when it was imposed three years ago.Until he was inaugurated in a small window without window from Hong Kong International Airport at the beginning of this year when he arrived at his native Taiwan, and subject to interrogations and complete research of the police in uniform and in civilian clothes.”Who do you know in Hong Kong?” His interrogators wanted to know. “For whom you worked, an employee or not…
No walls is waterproof, not even a firewall A man blocks a line of tanks in the east on Boulevard Chang’an de Beijing by Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. The man, calling for the end of recent violence and blood effusions against pro-democracy demonstrators, was removed by passers-by, and the tanks continued in their own way. (Jeff Widener / Associated Press) How I came to learn about June 4 June 2, 2023 On the eve of the 34th anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, Radio Free Asia collected stories of young Chinese Internet users on their knowledge of…
The official story of China on the war in Ukraine has adopted three different themes over time which have sent contradictory signals, according to an analysis of state media reports and official declarations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.This reflects the competing priorities of Beijing in the conflict, according to experts.Initially, after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, Beijing officials sought to present China as a neutral power without any interest in getting involved. But a year later, they started to portray China as playing an active role as a peacemaker.These two approaches were in contradiction with…
War memories Military conflicts leave lasting scars and painful memories, that fights took place last year or seven decades, when the war devastated a large part of the Korean peninsula. To document how the war has shaped the life of three generations of people related to Korea, Radio Free Asia recorded a testimony of women and men caught in the key episodes of the Korean War – since its departure in 1950, to the capture of the USS Pueblo in 1968, at the sinking of a South Korean warship in 2010. RFA also spoke to an ethnic Korean woman who…