Myanmar election: Suu Kyi's NLD wins landslide victory
Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy has won a landslide election victory, officials say.
With more than 80% of contested seats now declared, Aung San Suu Kyi's party has more than the two-thirds it needs to choose the president, ending decades of military-backed rule.
A quarter of seats are automatically held by the military, meaning it remains hugely influential.
Under the constitution Ms Suu Kyi cannot become president herself.
Despite this, the election was seen as the first openly contested poll in Myanmar - also known as Burma - in 25 years.
The Burmese like their numbers. So just maybe Myanmar's Union Election Commission waited for an auspicious day.
Five days after polls closed, and exactly five years to the day since Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, her party's majority in parliament was confirmed.
Chinese professor removed for expressing 'radical opinions' amid fresh crackdown
Liang Xinsheng, the deputy head of the English department at Lingnan Normal University, is alleged to have broken Communist party rules
A university professor from southern China has been removed from his position for expressing “radical opinions” on the internet.
The move follows the introduction of new rules forbidding Communist party members from publicly criticising government policy.
Liang Xinsheng, the deputy head of the English department at Lingnan Normal University, used an account on Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, to spread the damaging messages, the Guangzhou Daily newspaper reported.
Liang was also alleged to have fabricated political rumours which “damaged the image of the party and the country and had a negative influence on society”.
Inside Assad’s Syria
For the past month, Russian bombs over Syria have further complicated the civil war, a conflict that has been tearing the country apart for almost five years. What is the situation like for those still living in Syria? FRANCE 24's Ksenia Bolchakova was able to report from the cities held by the regime. This is her exclusive report.
Filming a report in areas controlled by the Syrian regime is not easy. First of all, you must obtain a visa. In my case, the procedure took three-and-a-half months. I had lost all hope when on September 30, I finally received the phone call to tell me that I had obtained the precious sticker.
September 30, 2015, was the first day of the Russian intervention in Syria. My Russian passport no doubt considerably helped the employees of the Syrian Ministry of Information in making their decision…
Once inside Syria, journalists are always accompanied by an assigned translator. This person officially helps you to obtain filming permits, which you need everywhere you go, but he or she is mainly there to watch you. In other words, your translator is the eyes and ears of the regime.
People smuggler payment scandal: Captain asked Australian official for 'help'
November 13, 2015 - 5:50PM
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa
Rote Island: The captain allegedly paid by Australia to return asylum seekers to Indonesia said he begged an Australian official for help because he would not receive money from a people smuggling agent unless the boat reached New Zealand.
"I told the officer, we haven't been paid, all those days sailing, all our efforts for nothing. Can you help us?" Yohanis Humiang told Fairfax Media in an interview in his cell.
"The officer said: 'Yes we can help you'. He also said: 'Never ever do this work ever again'."
Mr Yohanis also revealed Australian authorities had not believed the boat of 65 asylum seekers was headed for New Zealand when they intercepted it on two occasions earlier this year.
In June Indonesian police officers told Fairfax Media the asylum seeker boat, Andika, was intercepted by the navy warship HMAS Wollongong and an Australian customs boat in international waters on May 21.
This Is What It Looks Like When The U.S. Ignores A Refugee Crisis
“If I return, I know they will kill me.”
As Jorge Alberto Rosal drove along a highway through the Guatemalan province of Zacapa on Aug. 12, 1983, a military jeep stopped his vehicle and several plainclothes men forced him to get inside their truck instead.
His wife, Blanca Vargas de Rosal, called the police when he didn't return home that night. When they didn’t find him, she desperately searched detention centers, military bases, hospitals and, eventually, morgues, trying to find her husband, a 28-year-old agronomist. She never did. Blanca was two months pregnant. Her daughter, María Luisa, was only 9 months old.
“The memories that I have are collected memories,” María Luisa Rosal told The Huffington Post earlier this year. “From my grandparents, my mom, my cousins, the people that knew him… Most of them talk about how brilliant he was. And how loving he was. And how fair.”
Nauru 'asylum teenagers' start Facebook page despite ban
A Facebook page has been set up highlighting the plight of children held in a detention centre on Nauru, where the social network is banned.
The BBC has been told three asylum seekers on Nauru, aged 12 to 16, run theFree the Children NAURU page.
It features personal messages and artwork from children in the Australian-run detention centre.
Anyone who tries to reach Australia by boat to claim asylum is held in offshore centres, including on Nauru.
Australian government figures show that 92 children are in the Nauru centre.Nauru has banned Facebook since April on the grounds that social media can create instability.
It is not clear if the children who run the page will face any punishment if caught.
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