Wednesday 19 June 2013
CHINESE authorities have formally arrested a man for trying to stage a repeat of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, his wife said, signalling an increasing intolerance for dissent under Communist Party rule.
AUTHORITIES in central China executed a former Communist Party official for raping 11 underage girls, state media has said, following an online uproar about the latest case of abuse of power.
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-un toured the impoverished country's east coast last month in a 95-foot luxury yacht, a boat that could be prohibited under U.N. sanctions, a website that tracks events in the reclusive state said.
AN Australian woman who developed a French accent after suffering a head injury in a bus crash says she is depressed and anxious.
CHINESE authorities have formally arrested a man for trying to stage a repeat of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, his wife said, signalling an increasing intolerance for dissent under Communist Party rule.
Edward Snowden, the US intelligence whistleblower, has declared that the US government will not be able to cover up his revelations about its vast data-collection programme "by jailing or murdering me".
Okinawa has lived uneasily for decades with its huge American military presence
NORTH Korea offered high-level talks with the United States to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, but the White House said that any talks must involve Pyongyang taking action to show it is moving toward scrapping its nuclear weapons.
HUNDREDS of rights advocates and political activists marched through Hong Kong yesterday to demand protection for Edward Snowden, who leaked revelations of US electronic surveillance and is now believed to be holed up in the former British colony.
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit on Saturday off the Pacific coast of the central American nation of Nicaragua, the U.S. geological survey said.
China’s army of internet censors have picked an unusual target in their battle to wipe dissent from the country’s computer screens: Winnie the Pooh and Tigger. Following the recent California summit between Barack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping, Chinese micro-bloggers picked up on an uncanny resemblance between a photograph of the two presidents strolling through the Sunnylands estate and a cartoon image of A. A. Milne’s cartoon creations.
A radio host has been sacked for grilling Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on whether her partner, Tim Mathieson, was gay.
VIETNAMESE police have arrested an author and blogger for posting anti-government comments online, according to authorities, the latest in a crackdown on critics of the country's Communist rulers.
AN Australian radio presenter has been sacked after questioning prime minister, Julia Gillard on the sexuality of her partner, Tim Mathieson, during a live radio interview.
A British oil worker kidnapped in Indonesia has been reunited with his family after a two-day ordeal.
AUSTRALIA'S prime minister, Julia Gillard has condemned a "grossly sexist and offensive menu" containing crude references to her physique.
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