Asia

Despite opposition from a majority of the Japanese people, the government is forcing this through, without a doubt, the work of a dictatorship. But, this sight before me right now really fills me with hope. Whether this country will permit…

Malaysian protesters of all ranks and ethnic groups slept in the streets of the capital overnight Saturday after they gathered in their thousands at an anti-government rally that pointed to growing discontent with Prime Minister Najib Razak over a recently…

Veterans For Peace, a major peace organization of veterans in the U.S., welcomed the  announcement on Tuesday, August 25th, of an inter-Korean agreement to de-escalate the current military tensions in Korea. Among the items agreed to, the South agreed to…

Before the riot police’s crackdown on the student protesters marching some 500 kilometers from Mandalay to Yangon on 20 January 2015, their demands were very clear: the democratization of Burma’s education system. When the government announced the National Education Draft…

Recently, the Bangladesh government has set its target for power generation. According to “Power System Master Plan 2010” announced by government, power generation target is 39,000MW against a demand of 38,000MW by 2030, where half of the generation will come…

South Korea has lowered the high level of war alert it had issued for its forces stationed at the border following recent reduction of dangerously-escalated tensions with the North. “The maximum alert order that had come down to the frontline…

Guilty Prosecutors run free but innocent victims are jailed Danilo Reyes (Note: this article was first published in the August 16, 2015 issue of the Sunday Examiner) Temogen (Cocoy) Tulawie, a rights advocate from Sulu, walked out of prison on…

Declaration of the International Meeting It will soon be 70 years since atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. This year also marks the 70th year after the end of World War II. We the…

From where do we get the energy and the motivation for our joint action? How do we manage to sustain our joint action in the long term?To begin with, and generally speaking, the energy and the motivation for our joint…

Manavtabadi Abhiyan is the name of the organisation promoted by the Panauti coordination team engaged in organising a community self study programmes in this public shelter. Here we meet members in the activities. Despite all of the physical and daily life problems…