Civil society groups say a proposed measure to limit online expression and privacy rights could lead to mass arrests of those who criticize the military government. ( read original story ...)
Myanmar’s Creatives Are Fighting Military Rule With Art – Despite the Threat of a Draconian New Cyber-Security Law
Artists in Yangon are creating striking, often satirical images as part of a civil disobedience campaign against the military ... ( read original story ...)
Joe Biden Would Give In to ‘Nuclear Blackmail’ by Re-Entering Iran Deal, Reza Pahlavi Says
The son of the former shah of Iran is among the dissidents urging the president to break away from what they say is a flawed agreement that favors Tehran. ( read original story ...)
Biden is tackling the Yemen crisis with “urgency,” but Iran won’t make it easy
The White House rushed a veteran diplomat to Saudi Arabia on a mission to end a war threatening hundreds of thousands of civilian lives, but nothing's easy in the Mideast. ( read original story ...)
Turkey holds Iranian diplomat over dissident’s assassination
Turkey has arrested an Iranian diplomat in connection with the assassination in Istanbul of a former regime intelligence officer who turned against Tehran.Muhammad Reza Naserzadeh, 43, a civil ... ( read original story ...)
Biden Starts Off Tough On Turkey, With Rocky Path Ahead
Joe Biden has opened his presidency by taking a visibly harder line on Turkey, with analysts expecting a rocky path ahead between the uneasy allies as their interests increasingly diverge. Turkish ... ( read original story ...)
Vietnam reports two more Covid-19 cases on February 12
At 6pm on February 12 (the 1 st day of the lunar New Year), the Ministry of Health announced 2 more cases of Covid-19 in Hanoi and Bac Ninh province, bringing the total number of patients nationwide ... ( read original story ...)
Vietnam welcomes positive progress in Minsk agreements implementation
Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations, on February 11 welcomed the positive progress recorded in the implementation of the Minsk agreements over the recent ... ( read original story ...)
Vietnam’s ‘incense village’ pins hopes on local consumers
Across this village south of Hanoi, otherwise drab patches of ground blaze with color as bundles of magenta-tipped incense sticks are left to dry in the sun before being distributed across Vietnam and ... ( read original story ...)
Philippines’ Duterte Tells U.S. ‘You Have to Pay’ if It Wants to Keep Troop Deal
"It is a shared a responsibility, but your share of responsibility does not come free, after all, when the war breaks out we all pay," Duterte said, alluding to Washington and Bei ... ( read original story ...)