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Taiwan News reporting on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen’s landslide win says the good lady promises reforms, general cooperation and an aim to establish stability after she was elected Taiwan’s first woman president Saturday, 16 January, 2016.…

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has warned the country’s big companies over what he calls unfair pay. Speaking at a socialist conference in London, Corbyn said a Labour government could ban companies from distributing dividends if they fail to pay…

US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order lifting US economic sanctions on Iran, the White House announced. The White House made the announcement on Saturday, after US Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement confirming the International…

“Society has now started to work towards a radical change in the policies of the EU. There are many proposals on the table that could do away with austerity,” says the Plan. Hundreds of activists, politicians and intellectuals have signed…

North Korea Saturday called for the concluding of a peace treaty with the United States and a halt to U.S. military exercises jointly with South Korea to bring to an end its nuclear tests. This is not the first time…

An Announcement by the Asian Human Rights Commission AHRC TV: JUST ASIA,  Episode 106 In this episode of Just Asia, AHRC TV reports from Sri Lanka where the police still appear to consider themselves above the law. Police officers in…

If Chief Executive Leung’s recent remark that HKSAR could “quit” the Convention against Torture was meant as a joke, he isn’t getting many laughs. Least of all because his timing is off – just over a month ago the Committee…

On the fifth anniversary of its revolution, Tunisia has much to celebrate, many lessons still to learn, and a lot to teach other countries. Upheaval in the region and Tunisia’s own fitful democratic transition make it easy to adopt a…

Researchers have found a way to treat drug-resistant lung cancer by packaging a chemotherapy drug in containers made from a patient’s own immune system and delivering it directly to tumors. The technique results in 50 times less chemo for patients.…

Lebanon, like Palestine, is such a beautiful rich country but its political leaders do not seem to get their act together. Being divided into sometimes intermixing and sometimes contending communities is not a bad thing if you think in terms…