Anti-Muslim Riots Turn Deadly in Myanmar’s Mandalay City

Anti-Muslim riots in Myanmar’s second largest city Mandalay have left two people dead and about a dozen wounded, and motor vehicles and shops ablaze, according to eyewitnesses Wednesday, in the latest communal violence to hit the predominantly Buddhist country. Read More

Lawmakers Pelt Hong Kong Chief Amid Democracy Demands

Political tensions continued to mount in Hong Kong on Thursday as lawmakers threw objects at chief executive C.Y. Leung amid growing calls for his resignation, while commentaries in China's state media struck an ominous note following Tuesday's mass pro-democracy march. Read More

Ex-Vietnamese Political Prisoner Blames Jail Conditions for HIV Infection

A former Vietnamese political prisoner who had served 14 years in jail says he has been tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, blaming the infection on inhumane conditions during his imprisonment, including mass sharing of shaving razor blades. Read More

North Korea Expands Jamming, Surveillance of Chinese Cell Phones

North Korea is stepping up measures to counter the use of illegal cell phones operating on neighboring China’s telecommunications networks by deploying jamming and wiretapping equipment along their common border, according to sources inside the reclusive nation. Read More

Beijing Steps Up Security Ahead of Urumqi Riot Anniversary

Authorities in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang and the Chinese capital have stepped up security measures ahead of the fifth anniversary of deadly ethnic riots in the regional capital Urumqi, with a visible increase in the number of armed police on the streets, residents said. Read More

Cambodia’s Defense of Rights Record at UN Review Slammed

Foreign donors should push Cambodia’s government to end its human rights abuses as part of its bid to maintain political control of the nation, a rights group said Wednesday, after Phnom Penh allegedly snubbed recommendations by foreign governments to improve the country’s rights record. Read More

Four Held, Curfew Declared in Mandalay City After Deadly Violence

Myanmar authorities detained four people and imposed a curfew in the country’s second largest city Mandalay on Thursday after two consecutive days of anti-Muslim riots left two dead and more than a dozen injured. Read More