By Andrew Firmin*, Othernews The violence keeps coming in Myanmar, under military rule since February 2021. The junta stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, with evidence of systematic use of killings, rape, torture and other gross human...
  by Anna Violante When the first four of the BK16 were arrested on 6 June 2018, they were accused of conspiracy and fomenting an uprising against Prime Minister Modi’s government. Others followed on 28 August, with more to come by...
by Ambra Visentin The Japanese Prime Minister calls on the world leaders meeting in Hiroshima until 21 May  to ban atomic weapons. In addition to urging Moscow not to use nuclear weapons, Japan wants the major powers to tackle the...
"Within an hour of the bombing, when we arrived we saw a gruesome scene: men, women, children torn apart by the bombs". Ko Andrew is one of the doctors who went with a rescue team on 11 April to...
by Ambra Visentin The Chinese ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, expressed alarming views on Friday when he questioned the sovereignty of the 14 countries of the former Soviet Union in an interview with the French television channel LCI. The ambassador...
Reporting from Angkor, Cambodia, is Raffaele Crocco. Jorani speaks rarely. In spite of his silence, the name means 'radiant jewel'. He drives his tuk-tuk and is silent, almost all the time. He drives through the ruins of Angkor and merely...
by Ambra Visentin The decades-long dispute between Japan and South Korea over the compensation of forced labourers seems finally set to be resolved. For years, the governments have been arguing about compensation for former forced labourers and forced prostitutes, the...
by Theo Guzman The Burmese junta's decision to extend the state of emergency for another six months on 1 February, two years after the coup, is an indirect admission that it cannot hold elections in a country that is largely...
By Theo Guzman This reportage from Yangon appeared first on February 1st. It has since been updated as of February 2nd.  Returning from Yangon - On february 1st, 2023, yet another silent strike across most of Myanmar marked the  the second...
By our envoy in Asia, Emanuele Giordana Vientiane, Laos - When the Russian Defence Ministry announced on 9 January that Moscow had received 30 vintage T-34/85 tanks from Laos, some may have thought it was a sign of Lao-Russian friendship...

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