Malaysia migrant mass graves: police reveal 139 sites, some with multiple corpses
Dozens of suspected people-smuggling camps also discovered in north of the country on border with Thailand
Police in Malaysia have given details of the discovery of nearly 140 grave sites – some with multiple bodies – and dozens of people-smuggling camps on the border with Thailand.
Only a day after reports of the finding of mass graves, national police chief General Khalid Abu Bakar said his officers had uncovered 28 suspected human trafficking camps located around 500 metres from the border in northern Malaysia.
“The operation which we have been conducting from May 11 to May 23 we discovered 139 of what we believe are graves,” Khalid told reporters.
He could not immediately give a figure of how many bodies might have been buried in the sites but the confirmation that there are 139 sites means the number of dead will be much higher than the 100 first suspected.
Spectacular insights into the early life of galaxies
Astronomers at the Very Large Telescope have taken the best 3D-pictures of the early universe ever. They discovered objects emitting so little light that the Hubble Telescope could not find them.
The most wellknown of them come from the Hubble Space Telecope. In 1995 astronomers first focused on a region of the skies in the Northern Hemisphere to research galaxies that are extremely far away and in early stages of their development.
Three years later, the astronomers selected a region of the skies in the Southern Hemisphere where they repeated the observation procedure for ten days.
South China Sea dispute: China state paper warns of 'war' unless US backs down
Sui-Lee Wee
A Chinese state-owned newspaper said on Monday that "war is inevitable" between China and the United States over the South China Sea unless Washington stops demanding Beijing halt the building of artificial islands in the disputed waterway.
The Global Times, an influential nationalist tabloid owned by the ruling Communist Party's official newspaper the People's Daily, said in an editorial that China was determined to finish its construction work, calling it the country's "most important bottom line".
The editorial comes amid rising tensions over China's land reclamation in the Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea. China last week said it was "strongly dissatisfied" after aUS spy plane flew over areas near the reefs, with both sides accusing each other of stoking instability.
China should "carefully prepare" for the possibility of a conflict with the United States, the newspaper said.
In North Korea, men call the shots, women make the money
North Korea is a militarized, male-dominated society, but it is women who are making the money as the insular nation allows an unofficial market-based economy to take shape.
Women earn more than 70 percent of household income in North Korea, mainly as traders in the informal markets that have proliferated in recent years, research by the South Korean government-run Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) found.
That is despite women making up only about half of the 12 million economically active North Koreans, experts say. Most men are stuck in state jobs that pay little or serve in the army.
Quake Hits Tokyo Days After Japan OK's Third Nuclear Restart
An earthquake shook buildings and halted train lines in Tokyo early Monday, days after Japan's nuclear regulator green-lighted the restarting of atomic energy at a third plant.
The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, was centered in Ibaraki prefecture just northeast of the country's capital, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. There was no tsunami warning.
Narita airport closed both runways for checks shortly after the quake, but the capital's Haneda airport was operating as normal.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no reports of abnormalities at any nuclear facilities.
The earthquake occurred at 2:28 Monday afternoon. Not early Monday.
IS threat to Syria's northern bald ibis near Palmyra
- 25 May 2015
- Middle East
A rare bird may become extinct in Syria because of the capture of Palmyra by Islamic State, experts say.
A tiny breeding colony of the northern bald ibis was found near the city in 2002.
Three birds held in captivity were abandoned last week after their guards fled the fighting. Their fate is unknown.
Officials have offered a reward of $1,000 (£646) for information about the whereabouts of a fourth bird.
'Extinction'
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon told the BBC that finding the missing female, called Zenobia, is crucial.
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