Nearly 30,000 people from Kayin, Mon and Rakhine states and Bago region in Myanmar have been evacuated due to heavy rain and floods since the beginning of August, relief workers told RFA Thursday.
Shelters for survivors of human trafficking are being built by the Kenyan government. Authorities say that the goal is to help victims in moving past their traumatic experiences, rebuild their lives, and prosecute human traffickers.
Civilians across Myanmar on Tuesday commemorated the 35th anniversary of a significant uprising as they held protests against the ruling military junta dictatorship amid heightened security measures imposed by the regime, activists said.
This week, Japan commemorates the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945, which killed hundreds of civilians and ended World War II, the postwar constitution of Japan limited its military forces and renounced war as a right of the nation.
Bangladesh’s cabinet has approved a proposal to dilute the Digital Security Act, a minister said Monday about the law that critics worldwide have lambasted for its use to silence dissent, imprison critics and repress a free media.
A Tibetan writer who wrote a book that criticized Chinese rule in Tibet has been released from prison after serving a four-year sentence for “creating disorder among the public,” a Tibetan source told Radio Free Asia.
Health workers in Nigeria say the unreliable power grid can cause unwanted hospital shutdowns at night in addition to slowing down the country’s economic growth. Hospitals now have hope thanks to one startup.
Outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, New York City, there are a large number of migrants.The hotel serves as the city-wide shelters’ migrant processing center. As they wait for help, however, migrants are sleeping on the sidewalks because the shelters are packed.
Bangladesh’s Election Commission met with representatives of Facebook’s parent company Thursday to seek the social media giant’s support in removing political posts deemed as disinformation during the run-up to national polls, officials said.
Fighting in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its troublesome Darfur region have received much of attention; however, the Kordofan region, on the border with South Sudan, is also seeing intense clashes. As the number of conflict-related deaths rises, thousands more locals have fled to South Sudan.