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Fri, December 6, 2019 | 14:27

Extradition bill pushes Hong Kong to a political crisis

Extradition bill pushes Hong Kong to a political crisis

A highly controversial legislative measure in Hong Kong that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China has pushed the former British colony to its biggest political crisis in years. A march to protest the measure drew hundreds of thousands of people to the streets Sunday and stretched into Monday, with critics of the bill viewing the changes as part of ...

2019-06-11 09:22

Ex-Japanese top official says he killed son to prevent attack on children

Ex-Japanese top official says he killed son to prevent attack on children

A former Japanese vice agriculture minister says he had no choice but to kill his own son, 44, to prevent the son from attacking children. According to local media reports, Hideaki Kumazawa, also a former ambassador to the Czech Republic, told police he stabbed his son Eiichiro out of fear that he would harm children, who were making noise at an elementary school near their h...

Jung Min-ho | 2019-06-10 15:15

Japan's former vice farm minister arrested for killing 'hikikomori' son

Hong Kong to rally against Chinese extradition agreement

Hong Kong to rally against Chinese extradition agreement

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents were expected protest on Sunday afternoon against a proposed law that would allow extradition to China, one of the most controversial pieces of legislation since a 2003 national security bill. A previous rally against the bill in April drew 130,000 protesters, according to organiser Civil Human Rights Front, and opposition has only con...

2019-06-09 11:28

Cambodia's Hun Sen says Singapore supported genocide

Cambodia's Hun Sen says Singapore supported genocide

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of supporting genocide because of comments he made about Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia which ended Pol Pot's genocidal “killing fields” regime. In the remarks, which have stirred Cold War animosity and drawn a strong response from Vietnam, Lee referred to the Vietnamese action to ous...

2019-06-08 09:29

China issues US travel alert warning of official harassment

China issues US travel alert warning of official harassment

China issued a travel warning for the U.S. on Tuesday, saying Chinese visitors have been interrogated, interviewed and subjected to other forms of what it called harassment by U.S. law enforcement agencies. The warning urges Chinese citizens and Chinese-funded bodies in the U.S. to step up their safety awareness and preventative measures and respond ``appropriately and active...

2019-06-05 11:32

Duterte says he 'cured' himself of being gay

Duterte says he 'cured' himself of being gay

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked outrage after claiming that he "cured" himself of being gay with the help of beautiful women. Duterte is notorious for his foul-mouthed speeches that include insults, threats to perceived enemies and references to rape that he casts as jokes.

2019-06-05 11:23

Tiananmen Square massacre marked with Hong Kong candlelight vigil

Tiananmen Square massacre marked with Hong Kong candlelight vigil

Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong gathered Tuesday night to mark 30 years since China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, underscoring continuing concern for Chinese human rights in the semi-autonomous territory, even as its own civil liberties are under threat. Hong Kong is the only region under Beijing's jurisdiction that holds s...

2019-06-05 09:33

30 years after Tiananmen Square, Pompeo condemns China's human rights record

Silence marks Tiananmen 30th anniversary in China [PHOTOS]

Silence marks Tiananmen 30th anniversary in China [PHOTOS]

Police checked the identification cards of every tourist and commuter leaving the subway near Tiananmen Square, the site of the pro-democracy protests that were brutally extinguished by tanks and soldiers on June 4, 1989.

2019-06-04 21:00

Japan's former vice farm minister arrested for killing 'hikikomori' son

Japan's former vice farm minister arrested for killing 'hikikomori' son

A former Japanese vice agriculture minister, 76, has been arrested on charges of stabbing his “hikikomori” son to death. According to local media Sunday, Hideaki Kumazawa, also a former ambassador to the Czech Republic, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing his son, Eiichiro, 44, with a kitchen knife at home in Tokyo - a charge he reportedly admitted.

Jung Min-ho | 2019-06-03 12:38

Ex-Japanese top official says he killed son to prevent attack on children

A singer goes missing in China's effort to erase Tiananmen

A singer goes missing in China's effort to erase Tiananmen

It has been three months since Chinese rock musician Li Zhi disappeared from public view. First, an upcoming tour was canceled and his social media accounts were taken down. Then his music was removed from all of China's major streaming sites _ as if his career had never existed at all. Li is an outspoken artist who performs folk rock. He sang pensive ballads about social ill...

2019-06-02 14:45

On 30th anniversary, China says Tiananmen crackdown was 'correct' policy

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