More than 1,000 members of India’s LGBTQ community, rights groups, and their supporters marched through the streets of the capital on Friday to protest a citizenship law that excludes Muslims.
JAL to give away 50,000 flights during Olympics
TOKYO — Japan Airlines (JAL) announced on Dec. 27 that it will give away 50,000 domestic return tickets to international visitors in the summer of 2020. Participants must be a JAL Mileage Bank frequent flyer member registered outside of Japan. The traveling period for the “Win a Trip with JAL” campaign will be between July […]
China convicts researchers involved in gene-edited babies
By KEN MORITSUGU BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced on Dec. 30 to three years in prison because of his research, state media said. He Jiankui, who was convicted of practicing medicine without a license, […]
Thai serial killer, released from prison, arrested again
By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) —Thai police on Dec. 18 arrested a convicted serial killer who was accused of a fresh killing just seven months after his early release from prison. Somkid Poompuang was arrested aboard a train after a nationwide manhunt launched when he was identified as a suspect in the Dec. […]
Murakami holds rare public reading to mark debut anniversary
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A monkey that confesses he steals women’s identity cards, causing them to temporarily forget who they are, starred on Dec. 17 as author Haruki Murakami marked 40 years since his debut as a novelist with his first public reading in Japan in nearly a quarter century. Now […]
Thailand returns orangutans to their Indonesian homeland
By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Wildlife authorities in Thailand sent two orangutans back to Indonesia on Dec. 20 as part of a collaborative effort to combat illicit wildlife trade. Ten-year-old female Cola and 7-year-old male Giant were transported from wildlife sanctuaries in the western province of Ratchaburi to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, where […]
Taiwan probes visa scam allowing visits by Chinese officials
By RALPH JENNINGS Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan prosecutors say they have detained 10 people, including a former staff member of the China-friendly opposition party, and are investigating them on suspicion of falsifying documents to bring thousands of mainland Chinese to Taiwan, possibly including some who spied on the self-ruled island claimed by […]
Violence flares at Indian citizenship law protest in Delhi
By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Police fired tear-gas and struck demonstrators with batons on Dec. 15 in India’s capital city, where thousands, including students at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, protested against a new law that will give citizenship to non-Muslims fleeing religious persecution from several neighboring countries. The third day […]
Temple collapses in Cambodia, killing 3
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Buddhist temple under construction in Siem Reap, home of Cambodia’s famed Angkor temples, collapsed on Dec. 2, killing at least three people and injuring 13 others, including two monks, police said. The deputy chief of Siem Reap Provincial Police, Pheung Chendareth, said workers were pouring cement for the ceiling […]
50 children killed by measles in Samoa as outbreak worsens
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa’s government said on Dec. 2 that another five children had died within the past day from a measles outbreak, bringing the death toll from the epidemic to more than 50 as authorities race to vaccinate the entire population. Samoa declared a national emergency last month and mandated that all […]
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