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Roughly 600 protesters on February 6 marched to where New Zealand’s founding document was signed in the town of Waitangi, as official celebrations competed with protests against proposed government policies that threaten Indigenous rights. The gathering is the biggest in at least 30 years...

Malaysian premier Najib Razak, who was convicted of graft over the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, could be released by 2028 after his jail sentence was halved, prompting uproar from critics who called on the government to explain the decision. The pardons board...

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case related to the illegal sale of state gifts. An accountability court in Rawalpindi, which deals with corruption cases, on January 31 also ruled that the couple would be ineligible to...

Pakistan court has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his close aide, former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, to 10 years in jail in a case related to the leaking of state secrets. The special court set up in a prison in Rawalpindi on January 30 announced the sentence in the so...

Some 569 Rohingya people died or went missing at sea last year—the most since 2014—as they embarked on dangerous boat journeys to Southeast Asia, according to the United Nations refugee agency. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said nearly 4,500 Rohingya people took boats across the Andaman Sea...

China underwent scrutiny of its human rights record at a United Nations meeting on January 23, with mostly Western countries calling for protections for Xinjiang Uyghurs and greater freedom in Hong Kong, which Beijing dismissed as guidance based on lies. The review at the U.N. in Geneva is the first...

The Philippine government will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation into a brutal anti-narcotics campaign, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on January 23. "I consider it as a threat to our sovereignty. Therefore, the Philippine government will not lift a finger...

North Korea has demolished a major monument in its capital that symbolized the goal of reconciliation with South Korea on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un, who last week called South Korea a "primary foe" and said unification was no longer possible. Tensions have spiked on the Korean peninsula...

Taiwanese voters swept the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te into power on January 13, strongly rejecting Chinese pressure to spurn him, as China said it would not give up on achieving "reunification." Lai's party, which champions Taiwan's separate...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina swept to a fourth straight term in power, with her party winning almost 75 percent of the seats in the January 7 general election that was boycotted by the main opposition and drew a low turnout. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which...