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Wed, June 26, 2019 | 10:48

Protesters gather again outside Hong Kong government offices

Several hundred mainly student protesters gathered outside Hong Kong government offices Friday morning, with some blocking traffic on a major thoroughfare, after a deadline passed for meeting their demands related to controversial extradition legislation that many see as eroding the territory's judicial independence. While the scene began peacefully, the presence again of pro...

2019-06-21 14:14

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam issues apology [FULL TEXT]

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologized on Tuesday and said she had heard the people “loud and clear” after massive protests over a controversial extradition bill. Lam said she realized that she still has “much to learn and do in better balancing diverse interest,” but gave no indication that she was prepared to step down.

Jung Min-ho | 2019-06-19 09:54

Population of Earth to reach 9.7 billion in 2050: UN

By 2050, more than half of the world's population growth will be concentrated in just nine countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the United States.

2019-06-18 15:10

Indian Houdini drowns after 'magic' act goes wrong

Indian police on Monday recovered the body of a magician who drowned while trying to replicate an underwater Houdini-inspired stunt - tying himself up with chains and ropes and being lowered into a river. Rescue workers found the body of Chanchal Lahiri late Monday in the Hooghly river, the deputy commissioner of the port division of Kolkata police, Syed Waquar Raza, told AFP.

2019-06-18 14:36

Hong Kong protests over China extradition bill turn violent [PHOTOS]

Hong Kong's legislature suspended meetings Thursday following violent clashes between police and protesters who oppose a bill allowing suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial and that is seen as tightening Beijing's control over the territory. The events in the former British colony mark possibly its biggest political crisis since being handed over to Chinese rule in ...

2019-06-13 16:04

Hong Kong protesters vow to keep fighting extradition law

Hong Kong protesters vow to keep fighting extradition law

Following a day of sit-ins, tear gas and clashes with police, Hong Kong students and civil rights activists vowed Wednesday to keep protesting a proposed extradition bill that has become a lightning rod for concerns over greater Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the former British colony. The violence marked a major escalation of the biggest political crisis i...

2019-06-13 09:37

Hong Kong protests over China extradition bill turn violent [PHOTOS]

Extradition bill pushes Hong Kong to a political crisis

A highly controversial legislative measure in Hong Kong that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China has pushed the former British colony to its biggest political crisis in years. A march to protest the measure drew hundreds of thousands of people to the streets Sunday and stretched into Monday, with critics of the bill viewing the changes as part of ...

2019-06-11 09:22

Ex-Japanese top official says he killed son to prevent attack on children

A former Japanese vice agriculture minister says he had no choice but to kill his own son, 44, to prevent the son from attacking children. According to local media reports, Hideaki Kumazawa, also a former ambassador to the Czech Republic, told police he stabbed his son Eiichiro out of fear that he would harm children, who were making noise at an elementary school near their h...

Jung Min-ho | 2019-06-10 15:15

Japan's former vice farm minister arrested for killing 'hikikomori' son

Hong Kong to rally against Chinese extradition agreement

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents were expected protest on Sunday afternoon against a proposed law that would allow extradition to China, one of the most controversial pieces of legislation since a 2003 national security bill. A previous rally against the bill in April drew 130,000 protesters, according to organiser Civil Human Rights Front, and opposition has only con...

2019-06-09 11:28

Cambodia's Hun Sen says Singapore supported genocide

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of supporting genocide because of comments he made about Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia which ended Pol Pot's genocidal “killing fields” regime. In the remarks, which have stirred Cold War animosity and drawn a strong response from Vietnam, Lee referred to the Vietnamese action to ous...

2019-06-08 09:29

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