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Michelle Yeoh attends premiere of "The Lady" in Indonesia

World popular artist Michelle Yeoh has the chance to attend the premiere of "The Lady" movie in Jakarta. "I am ...

Thailand blocks 5,000 `royal insult` web pages

Thai authorities have blocked thousands of web pages deemed insulting to the monarchy in the past three months, police ...

Police arrest corruption suspect Sistoyo`s attacker

Police have arrested a man who knifed corruption suspect Sistoyo in the head at the Bandung Corruption Court house as ...

Unknown man attacks public prosecutor Sistoyo

Public prosecutor Sistoyo was attacked by an unknown man after attending a session as a defendant at a corruption ...

Guatemalan Human Rights Activist Rosalina Tuyuc to Receive 29th Niwano Peace Prize

-     The Niwano Peace Foundation will award the 29th Niwano Peace Prize to Ms. Rosalina Tuyuc ...

5 Syrian troops killed in clash with deserters

Five Syrian soldiers were killed on Tuesday in fighting with deserters in the restive southern province of Daraa, a ...

Pro-autonomy activist killed in south Yemen: witnesses

Yemeni security forces shot dead a southern activist and wounded six others at Mukalla in the southeast on Thursday ...

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 ...