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Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the new president of Sri Lanka by the country’s chief justice on July 21, 2022. The six-time prime minister won 134 votes in the 225-member parliament in a vote count on July 20, after his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country and resigned from his post the previous wee…
South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin has travelled to Japan to meet his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The three days of meetings starting July 18, 2022, aim to repair a bilateral relationship that has fallen to all-time lows. The officials discussed a possible resolution …
At least 20 people were killed and 30 others are missing after a boat carrying around 120 passengers including members of a wedding party capsized in the rapidly moving waters of the Indus River in Pakistan. The accident happened on July 19, 2022, between the villages of Machka and Kharor in Sadiqabad, an area along…
An investigative report released on July 17, 2022, found “multiple systemic failures” in the police response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting on May 24. The 77-page report was the first to criticise state and federal law enforcement, not just local authorities, for officer inaction as the gunman killed 19 childr…
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On July 14, 2022, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida blamed inadequate police protection for the death of the country's former leader Shinzo Abe. Abe was shot on July 8 by a lone gunman during an outdoor election campaign event in the western city of Nara. His assassination shocked a nation known for its low crim…
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Catholic missionary Father Franco Mella began a three-day protest outside Hong Kong’s Shek Pik prison on July 14, 2022 to demand the release of activists and opposition politicians jailed under the national security law. Beijing imposed the law on Hong Kong following the 2019 anti-government protest chaos. While the…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded a “special tribunal” to investigate Russian “crimes of aggression” since Moscow's invasion of his country in late February 2022. Zelensky issued the call on July 14, 2022, during a video address to an international conference at The Hague focused on war crimes in U…
Wild elephants have been wandering again in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan, a year after a group of the animals from a nature reserve in the area captured global attention as they were spotted far from home on an apparent search of food. This time a herd of 30 Asian elephants were enjoying a meal on a hills…
A veteran Hong Kong opposition activist popularly known by her Cantonese nickname Wong Por Por or “Grandma Wong” has been jailed for eight months. The sentence was handed down in Eastern Court on July 13, 2022. Alexandra Wong Fung-yiu, 66, pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful assembly at the height of the 2019 H…
A video of a five-year-old girl carting around a US$75,000 camera to film a school wildlife project has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms. Meng Meng often follows her photo-videographer father when he goes shooting. The little girl could pan the camera and accurately focus on two turtles climbing onto a r…
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On July 13, 2022, South Korea’s Unification Ministry released photographs of two North Korean fishermen being dragged across the border from South to North Korea. At the time of the 2019 deportation, the government of then-president Moon Jae-in called the fishermen “dangerous criminals”, who had killed 16 fellow shi…
A landslide in southwest China has killed a four-year-old girl and injured four other people. The debris has blocked the main road and damaged nearby buildings.
Armed police units in southwest China’s Sichuan province have conducted an intense competition to enhance the capability of local forces. The special combat team competed in 23 contests, including nighttime shooting, floating target shooting, drone reconnaissance and strikes. The contests were aimed at improving mem…
The Taliban issued new uniforms for Afghanistan’s police force on July 3, 2022, after months without an official attire. The biggest changes to the gear include shifting the colour to dark blue and replacing the Afghanistan tricoloured republican flag with the Taliban’s white one. Its roll-out started with 20,000 un…
Victims of what could be one of China’s worst financial scandals were surrounded by local police and beaten by a group of unidentified men during a protest on July 10, 2022, in central Henan province. About 1,000 demonstrators protested outside a branch of the People’s Bank of China in the city of Zhengzhou, seeking…
Japanese citizens were in shock after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving leader, died hours after being shot on July 8, 2022, while campaigning for a parliamentary election. Many were appalled that a shooting happened in Japan, where political violence is rare and guns are tightly controlled.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on July 8, 2022, after he was shot during an election campaign event in Nara, Japan. Police arrested a 41-year-old man who was reportedly a former military serviceman and used a “home-made gun” in the suspected attack. Abe was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister and …
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on July 8, 2022, after he was shot while delivering a speech in Nara, Japan. Abe showed “no vital signs” after the attack. Police arrested a man described as a suspect in the attack. Abe served two stints as prime minister, including a nearly eight-year run from 2012 to…
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In what critics are describing as “bulldozer justice”, earth-moving equipment is being used to plough into shops and homes in India during operations reportedly targeting Muslim activists behind recent anti-government protests. Demonstrations were held across India in June 2022 after two ruling-party officials made …
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Thailand has one of the largest prison populations among Asian countries, with some 285,000 inmates, and more than 80 per cent of them there on drug-related charges. The Department of Corrections in Thailand has launched a drug rehabilitation programme for inmates serving minor drug-related jail sentences. The progr…
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At least six people died and about 60 others were wounded in a shooting during a US Independence Day parade on July 4, 2022, in the Highland Park suburb of the city of Chicago. A 22-year-old suspect identified as a “person of interest” in the shooting has been arrested by local police.
At least six people were killed in a mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, near Chicago about 10:15am local time on July 4, 2022. Dozens were injured.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Hong Kong on June 30 and July 1, 2022, for official celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule, and to attend the inauguration ceremony of the city’s new leader, John Lee Ka-chiu. While slogans and banners were visible everywhere, the city was g…
Thousands of people joined a protest in the Indian city of Udaipur on June 30, 2022, following the murder of a Hindu tailor the previous day. Two Muslim men in the western state of Rajastanare have been arrested after allegedly beheading Kanhaiya Lal and posting a video of the act online. The victim reportedly had s…
Humanitarian aid is finally arriving in a remote area of Afghanistan that was hit by a powerful earthquake on June 22, 2022. Thousands of people have been left homeless or injured in Paktika and Khost provinces where the quake killed at least 1,150 people and an aftershock on June 24 took another five lives. The ini…
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At least 16 people were killed and nearly 60 others wounded when two Russian missiles slammed into a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk on June 27, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 1,000 people were in the mall at the time of the attack that has sparked int…
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