Five Myanmar villagers each were sentenced to five years in jail on Friday on charges of damaging a factory structure and vehicles throughout a protest versus a Chinese-backed coal-powered cement factory in Mandalay area, a legal representative for the accuseds stated. Homeowners of Aungthabyae town in Patheingyi area encountered authorities and those in charge of […]

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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Finance and Profits has actually delayed five federal government’s bills to protest the absence of Consultant to the Prime Minister on Finance and Profits Abdul Hafeez Shaikh from the conference. On February 27, the committee had actually chosen that it would rule out federal government’s bills in […]

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Pro-democracy legislators from Hong Kong are lobbying the U.S. federal government to enforce sanctions on senior authorities in the city over police violence and human rights infractions throughout 2015’s demonstrations. Charles Mok, Jeremy Tam and Kenneth Leung of Hong Kong’s Legal Council (LegCo) remain in Washington ahead of the administration’s review of the city’s human […]

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