Myanmar to investigate video of police beating Rohingya villagers
State newspaper says police were acting on a tipoff that militants from the Muslim minority were being sheltered in the village
Aung San Suu Kyi is Nobel Peace Prize recipient and de facto head of government in Myanmar. That Peace Prize hasn't meant much to the Rohingya considered the world's most persecuted religious minority
7 bad science and health ideas that should die with 2016
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There’s no shortage of misinformation in the world — particularly around health and science topics.
Sometimes that’s just because the research can be a little contradictory (nutrition, for instance, is famously hard to study). Sometimes that’s because there are quacks or vested interests trying to spread lies and pseudoscience. And sometimes there are just weird myths that have randomly taken hold and refuse to go away (like the idea that you need to drink eight glasses of water a day — you don’t).
East Asia in 2017: On land and sea, a year of building power bases
In East Asia, anxiety about what 2017 holds in store is running as high as anywhere in the world. Here’s a look at some of the stories to keep an eye on as the year unfolds:
EDITORIAL: Recommitment to constitutionalism a must as sun rises on uncertain 2017
The new year dawned on a world fraught with disquieting uncertainty. It is difficult not to wonder where the world--and Japan--is going this year, which seems poised to produce a raft of disturbances in various parts of the globe, especially the United States, where Donald Trump will come to power.
2016 quiz of the year - part one, pictures
How well do you remember the stories and people in the news this year?
Test your memory of 2016 in our four-part Christmas quiz - 52 questions for 52 weeks of the year. The first 13 are all about the pictures...
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