Taryn Wilson NB: This article from Feb 11, 2019, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024 Bangkok, Feb 11 (EFE).- Refugee soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi was on Monday released from a Bangkok prison after nearly 80 days of detention and was heading home to Australia, Canberra confirmed Monday night. “Hakeem al-Araibi has left jail. He is on his … Read more
NB: This article from Oct 10, 2019, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024 By Taryn Wilson Bangkok, Oct 10, 2019 (EFE).- It took five days for Toshi Kazama to unexpectedly awake from a coma. Someone had tried to kill him, he says, but exactly 16 years later, he still can’t remember anything about the moment … Read more
NB: This article from Sep 11, 2018, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024 By Taryn Wilson Mataram, Indonesia, Sep 11, 2018 (EFE).- After a series of major earthquakes, residents in the devastated north of Indonesia’s Lombok island are now facing health and economic problems as they try to rebuild their homes and their lives. At … Read more
NB: This article from Jun 7, 2018, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024 By Taryn Wilson Kuala Lumpur, Jun 7, 2018 (EFE).- Hassan al-Kontar can only watch as thousands of people stream past him through Malaysia’s KLIA2 airport and disappear through immigration. For more than three months he has been living in the corridor of … Read more
NB: This article from Aug. 9, 2019, was republished on Mar. 6, 2024. By Taryn Wilson Pailin, Cambodia, Aug 9 (EFE).- Fireworks cracked through the sky as smoke billowed from a cremation pyre holding the body of the Khmer Rouge’s chief ideologue, who was handed two life sentences in his sunset years for committing genocide … Read more
NB: This article from Nov 16, 2018, was republished on Feb. 28, 2024. By Taryn Wilson Phnom Penh, Nov 16, 2018 (EFE).- Two of the Khmer Rouge’s top leaders on Friday were found guilty of genocide at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. Nuon Chea, 92, who was the regime’s … Read more
