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Prisoners as young as 12 years old are among the inmates of an overcrowded prison in Herat in western Afghanistan. Media reports found boys accused of theft, adultery or not paying debts among adults who were jailed before and after the Taliban regained control of the country in August 2021. The Taliban had promised…
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Parts of Hong Kong were lit up with illegal fireworks set off during the Lunar New Year as the city celebrates the holiday from February 1-3, 2022. Video widely shared online shows fireworks at many locations around the city. Illegal possession or discharge of fireworks and firecrackers carries a maximum penalty of …
Local people in Afghanistan’s remote Panjshir Valley have known for centuries about the presence of emeralds in the mountainous region, where organised mining has taken place since the 1970s. The mines are typically owned by partners and operated by teams, with many of the more tedious and low-paid jobs now being do…
Angry protesters in India set fire to train carriages on January 26, 2022, during a protest about railway jobs. Police dispersed the crowd using tear gas and batons, and arrested about a dozen protesters in a violent clash. Video on social media also showed officers entering homes of suspected protesters and floggin…
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A motorist took a police officer for a ride he didn’t expect in eastern China’s Jiangxi province, as the driver tried to escape from a check.
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In the past six months, three Hong Kong media outlets popular with the opposition have folded. The Apple Daily newspaper and online publication Stand News closed after they were investigated by national security police while another online outlet Citizen News shut itself down as a precaution. Hong Kong’s leader Chie…
Hong Kong Chief Justice Andrew Cheung has defended the length of time it has taken the judiciary to hold trials for 47 opposition activists arrested in January 2021. Speaking after attending the opening of the new judicial year on January 24, 2022, Cheung said the courts should not sidestep necessary procedural step…
Aid has begun arriving in Tonga following an underwater volcanic eruption and resulting tsunami on January 15, 2022. The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano off the coast of the Pacific island nation destroyed villages and covered large parts of the country in ash. Emergency supplies have been brought …
Police deployed water cannons and fired tear gas as a protest turned violent in the Belgian capital Brussels on January 23, 2022. Authorities estimate some 50,000 people marched through the streets to protest against new Covid-19 restrictions and the implementation of a vaccine pass limiting access to certain activi…
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Thousands of Hongkongers have volunteered to adopt unwanted hamsters after the government’s cull order on January 18, 2022. The direction applies to about 2,000 hamsters that were sold on and after December 22, 2021. Authorities said the hamsters would be tested for Covid-19 and “humanely handled” before they are ki…
Hundreds gathered to mourn the death of Michelle Alyssa Go, a woman of Asian descent who was shoved in front of a moving train in New York City’s Times Square subway station on January 15, 2022. The homeless man accused of the attack has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder, police said.
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At least 27 people, including children, were killed by two earthquakes that hit Afghanistan before dawn on January 17, 2022. The quakes measuring magnitude 5.3 and 4.9 struck about two hours apart. They devastated three villages and flattened around 800 houses and were felt across the nation’s three northwestern pro…
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A Japanese woman gave her newborn up for adoption after discovering that the child’s biological father, a sperm donor, lied about his identity. The 30-year-old woman slept with the man up to 10 times after he claimed to be a Japanese graduate of an elite national university. In reality, he was a Chinese national who…
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Hundreds of Hong Kong people living in the UK have gathered in London to protest against what they described as a loss of press freedom in their home city. The rally on January 15, 2022, was staged nearly three weeks after the shutdown of the now-defunct Stand News. Protesters marched to the Hong Kong Economic & Tra…
Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic flew out of Australia bound for Dubai on January 16, 2022, following a unanimous court ruling rejecting his appeal against the cancellation of his visa, shattering the Serbian’s hopes of defending his title and a record 21st grand slam win at the Australian Open.
Novak Djokovic has lost his bid to remain in Australia on January 16, 2022, after the Federal Court upheld the government’s decision to cancel the tennis star’s visa.
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Hong Kong police arrested 10 people and impounded nine luxury sports cars on January 2, 2022, after they were seen allegedly racing along the Fanling Highway in a dash cam video posted online. The high-end supercars included a McLaren, four Lamborghinis, a Ferrari and a Porsche. Eight men were charged with taking pa…
The Taliban claims to have killed three fighters with Islamic State Khorasan (Isis-K), the Isis affiliate in Afghanistan, and arrested two others during a gunfight in Kabul. The clash took place at a house in the Afghan capital on the evening of January 9, 2022. The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 20…
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic was seen training at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne Park, Australia on January 11, 2022. The previous day the world No 1 player was released from detention after a court overturned his visa cancellation. Djokovic’s visa to enter Australia was cancelled following questions over th…
China’s Foreign Ministry said “the Chinese will always stand by the people of Kazakhstan”, according to a January 12, 2022, statement from ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. Referencing a recent phone conversation between China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, the spokesman said “mo…
Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another four years in jail on January 10, 2022. The 76-year-old was found guilty by a junta court of two charges related to illegally importing and owning walkie-talkies and one of breaking coronavirus rules. The sentence adds to a two-year jail term…
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Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic has been released from detention and his visa cancellation overturned by a Melbourne court on January 10, 2022. Djokovic was appealing against being barred from entering Australia because he did not get vaccinated. The tennis world No 1 claimed he was granted a medical exemption be…
An explosion in the southwestern Chinese municipality of Chongqing has killed at least two people and left nine others injured. Around 20 people are believed trapped in the rubble of a canteen, which collapsed following the blast that occurred at around noon on January 7, 2022. A suspected gas leak is believed to be…
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A top Hong Kong official has been sent into quarantine after attending a birthday party attended by over 100 guests, including a suspected Covid-19 patient. The city’s chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said she was “very disappointed” that 10 of her top officials attended the gathering, possibly exposing th…
Protests against the government of Kazakhstan have turned deadly as dozens were reportedly killed in a night of fires and clashes between protesters and security forces on January 5, 2022. The unrest began on January 2, when demonstrators took to the streets protesting against soaring fuel prices. The demonstrations…
A 37-year-old Chinese man who was abducted at the age of four has found his biological mother by drawing a map of his home village strictly from memory. Li Jingwei was taken in 1989 by a neighbour who sold him to another family in Henan province, more than 1,770km (1,100 miles) from his home in Yunnan province. A vi…
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Chaos gripped Kazakhstan this week as protests broke out throughout the central Asian nation over fuel prices. The country’s government resigned on January 5, 2022, and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev named a new acting prime minister. But the cabinet’s resignation did little to calm the anger over fuel price hikes …
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A severe outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus has killed thousands of wild migratory cranes in northern Israel, and prompted widespread culls of infected poultry at farms in the area. In what was described as “the most serious damage to wildlife in the history of the country”, Israeli officials said more than 5,000 m…
An explosion at a college in southwestern Pakistan has killed at least four people and left another 15 wounded. Police say the explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device planted near the entrance. The college is in Balochistan province, the centre of a decades-long low intensity insurgency. No group has …
Sultana Begum says she has records of her marriage at the age of 14 into the family of India’s once-powerful Mughal empire. Her late husband, Mirza Mohammad Bedar Bakht, is purported to be the great-grandson of Bahadur Shah Zafar. When her husband died in 1980, Begum was left penniless and struggling to get by in a …
Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has hit back at critics over her government’s arrest of seven people that prompted the closure of the Stand News online portal. In a press conference on December 30, 2021, she insisted there was no media “suppression” in the city. Lam also refuted a statement from the US…
A fire severely damaged the main entrance of Australia’s Old Parliament House in Canberra on December 30, 2021. Emergency services extinguished the fire and no injuries were reported. Police say the blaze was caused by protestors who have rallied at the heritage site for two weeks. An investigation is still under way.
Four men accused of smuggling people across an international border were publicly shamed in China’s southern province of Guangxi. Flanked by police officers, they were paraded through the streets of Jingxi city on December 28, 2021. Authorities also said the parade was a warning to the public of what could happen if…
Nearly a year since Chinese-American teenager Christian Hall was fatally shot by police in the US state of Pennsylvania on December 30, 2020, newly released video indicates he had raised his hands as state troopers opened fire. An investigative report issued by the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office in March s…
