by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 14, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
Factory workers received notice of its impending closure last Saturday, and were told they would lose their jobs in just over a week’s time, state-funded digital news outlet The Paper cited employees as saying.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 11, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
Indian police said Wednesday they had recovered more than 6,000 freshwater turtles weighing over four tonnes from poachers who planned to smuggle them to Southeast Asia, in the country’s largest-ever wildlife haul.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 8, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
Hardline Buddhist nationalists stopped a Muslim religious ceremony in Yangon on Sunday, witnesses and organisers said, as Islamophobic tensions boil over amid a bloody military campaign against Rohingya in northern Rakhine state.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 8, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
India’s rights watchdog said more than a dozen tribal women were raped and sexually assaulted by police in restive Chhattisgarh state, with the victims’ lawyer slamming authorities over delays in arresting the accused on Sunday.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 8, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
The monk, in his 60s and whose name was not released, set himself alight late Saturday night in central Seoul.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 7, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
Heavy rains continued to hammer Thailand’s flood-ravaged south on Saturday (Jan 7), bringing the death toll up to 18 and leaving thousands of villages partially submerged, authorities said.