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Climate change litigation in Philippines a game-changer?

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Top Democrat backs Trump bid to realign dealings with Beijing

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Justice may be coming for Philippine strongman

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Aid workers’ jobs in N. Korea may be about to get much harder

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Growing anger and frustration over deaths in custody

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Bangladeshi govt ‘using enforced disappearances to silence critics’

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Employers welcome verdict on the live-in rule for maids

by Asia Times staff February 15, 2018February 18, 2020

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High Court rejects challenge to the live-in rule for maids

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Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures to British Prime Minister Theresa May ahead of a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, February 1, 2018. Photo: Reuters/ Wu Hong

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China’s boasts about May’s avoidance of rights issues miss the point

by Xuan Loc Doan February 7, 2018

Muslim women walk in front of Indonesia's Constitutional Court in Jakarta after attending a trial on December 14, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Beawiharta

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Indonesia dodges a bullet, but moral panic about sexuality persists

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Muted cry for good governance in Vietnam

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Employer brags about how ‘nice’ she is to her maid

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying. Photo: Foreign Ministry of PRC

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China decries US human rights sanctions slapped on former official

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Rosemarie Trajano is the first Filipino recipient of the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. Photo: World Organization Against Torture, Google Maps

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Filipino nurse wins major human rights award

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Voices in Beijing are crying foul amid Western criticism of Chinese influence, yet pushing back against Western influence has been one of Xi Jinping's top priorities. Photo: Reuters / Fred Dufour

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China bristles as foreign governments flirt with CCP playbook

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Fred Dufour / Pool

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Canada’s future Pacific presence not aimed against China

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Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, appears at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad, India, on November 29, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Cathal McNaughton

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Ivanka Trump an unsuitable representative on women’s rights

by Atiya Anis December 1, 2017

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Ending impunity for conflict-related sexual violence

by Hakimi Abdul Jabar November 16, 2017November 16, 2017

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LGBT Chinese still forced into conversion therapy, finds study

by Liu Hsiu Wen November 15, 2017February 18, 2020

Rohingya refugees cross the Naf River with an improvised raft to reach to Bangladesh at Sabrang near Teknaf, Bangladesh November 10, 2017. Photo: Reuters

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Rohingya crisis reverberations sow investor doubt

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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Thomas Peter

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Will the warmth of the Trump-Xi summit linger?

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Vietnamese police officers stand next to a sign near the venue of the APEC summit in Danang, Vietnam November 9 2017. Photo: Reuters/Jorge Silva

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The Vietnam Trump refuses to see

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Vietnam is seeking preferential US treatment under the Donald Trump administration to sustain a warming trend in relations consolidated under the previous Barack Obama government. Photo: Getty Images

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US-Vietnam still in a tentative embrace

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US President Donald Trump attends a state dinner hosted by South Korea's President Moon Jae-in in his honor at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, on November 7, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Jonathan Ernst

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Will Trump take a stand on Southeast Asia?

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Flory Joy Alvarez (second from left), Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan, and Monisha Muniyandi appear at a media briefing on Girls’ Day. Photo: goh.org.tw

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Filipino, Indian ‘ambassadors’ visit on Taiwan Girls’ Day

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Pro-Rohingya protesters in New Delhi on September 21. Photo: Hindustan Times

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India’s contradictory stance on Rohingya refugees

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