3+ day, 37+ min ago   (585+ words) The old establishment elites have opposed Namal’s arrest. They want to preserve a system where one of their own is not jailed for corruption. Sri Lanka Podujana Party parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa waves to his supporters in the Tissamaharama electorate of…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (656+ words) Both Tashiev’s lawyers and the prosecutors filed appeals after the July verdict, the former seeking complete acquittal and the latter harsher sentencing. Neither has gotten what they asked for. When the trial of the former head of Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (309+ words) In 2018, the mother of the current president was accused of using Swiss foundations to transfer at least $200 million abroad during her 1975-1986 term as Manila governor. A portrait of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos at the Marikina Shoe Museum in…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (495+ words) The case dates back to March 2023, when four flight attendants were ‌caught carrying narcotics hidden in toothpaste tubes on a flight from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City. A Vietnamese court yesterday sentenced 11 people to death and 19 to life imprisonment…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1152+ words) In late August, BBC Uzbek broke the news that an Uzbek professor working in Kazakhstan had been arrested nearly two months prior on allegations of espionage. Very little is known about the case of Dr. Ikboljon Qoraboyev, a 46-year-old international…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1114+ words) “This is a region that is arguably now the largest epicenter of synthetic drug production in the world,” says the UNDOC deputy director. A panoramic view of the Golden Triangle confluence, where the borders of Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos converge…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (647+ words) A law that cannot turn intelligence into evidence will reproduce the central weakness of the Prevention of Terrorism Act of 1979, regardless of how much power it gives the state. Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has approved a bill to replace the Prevention…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1748+ words) Soldiers told survivors that the massacre in Byain Phyu was retaliation for the defeat and casualties the military suffered at the hands of the Arakan Army in the Battle for Kyauktaw. Survivors of the 2024 massacre in Byain Phyu village sit…...