The day May 5th, 2021 marked the two-hundredth anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death at the remote island of St Helena. The icon remains controversial as ever and leaders in France hassle over his depictions. The usual public is ready to attach general labels of ‘racist’ and ‘sexist’ over his bust. But in a time when …
Security forces set ablaze a village in central Myanmar after clashing there with opponents of the ruling junta, leaving at least two elderly people burned to death, several village residents said on Wednesday. MRTV state television said the blaze on Tuesday at Kin Ma, a village of about 800 people in the Magway Region, was …
Myanmar’s military junta formally charged Aung San Suu Kyi and other officials with corruption on Thursday, one of the most serious of the seven cases against the civilian leader since her detention during the February coup. “The Anti-Corruption Commission has inspected corruption cases against ex-state Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi,” the ministry said. “She …
After the incident which occurred not more than a week ago. Of a young journalist arrested after the dictator of Belarus hijacked his plane, the US has also decided to impose sanctions on Belarus. The full story for the incident can be found here. Sanctions The 2019 agreement was called off earlier agreed upon Washington …
Taiwan split from China in the period of 1949-50 when the CCP was actively against the ROC party in the Taiwanese region. This ROC party then created their own new country during a civil war and Taiwan has been separate from China ever since. This differs from what was done in the case of Hong …
Earlier until 2015 the Chinese government had a one-child policy. Any violations to this would lead to economic issues, and in many cases even forced abortions and sterilizations. Sometimes the extra baby would have to be forcefully be enrolled in the army. This was meant to control the population but the reason for scrapping it …
