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Malaysia defends deporting Saudi in Ttwitter row

Malaysia on Monday defended its deportation of a Saudi journalist wanted at home for comments deemed insulting to the ...

Domestic policy hampers asean human rights declaration

Domestic policies of several member countries of ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nation) are hampering the ...

Released Myanmar activists pledge to fight on

Free at last after years locked up by the junta, prominent Myanmar dissidents have vowed to keep up their fight for ...

Legislator accuses fellow commission III members of discriminative behavior

A member of the House of Representatives` Commission III has accused some Commission members of being discriminatory ...

Vietnam jails two rights activists for propaganda

A woman writer was sentenced to five years in prison in Vietnam for spreading anti-government propaganda, state media ...

S. Korea activist pays respects to Kim during illegal visit to N. Korea

A progressive South Korean civic activist paid her respects to late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the North`s state ...

Thai army chief opposes change to royal insult law

Thailand's powerful army chief expressed opposition Tuesday to amending the country's lese majeste law, recently ...

"Batman" star roughed up in bid to visit Chinese blind activist

Hollywood actor Christian Bale was roughed up by Chinese security guards as he attempted to visit a blind legal ...

Sirleaf, Gbowee and Karman receive Nobel Peace Prize

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her compatriot and "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni activist ...

SecurityCcouncil to put new focus on Yemen crisis

The UN Security Council will on Monday discuss the refusal of Yemen`s President Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand over power ...

Anand Krishna in Plenary Keynote Speech of the 3rd IBMF 2011

The festival of 2011 opened on Nov 10 in Puri Agung - Ubud, but the plenary, panel discussion, and workshop session ...

New Video Introduces 'Asia' - How Environmentalists Betray The Developing World

-     'Disarming The Greens' introduces 'Asia,' a green activist and campaigner for the ...

21 Gaza flotilla activists still in Israeli jail

A group of 21 activists who tried to sail to Gaza in breach of an Israeli blockade of the territory remain in Israeli ...

RI cancer sufferers to increase 7-fold by 2010: WHO

The number of people suffering from cancer in Indonesia is predicted to have risen seven-fold by 2010, a cancer ...

Islamophobia used as war propaganda

Islamophobia is being used as a form of propaganda in the so-called war on terrorism, according to British peace ...