AP report in South China Morning Post, Nov 17, 2017 After five years in prison and three more confined by guards at home, Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng could take no more. With the help of friends and a willing driver, Gao escaped his state security captors on August 13 and found shelter in the home of a stranger who made him pork dumplings – the first real meal he had eaten in years.…
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by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, Nov 16, 2017 at 20:49:07.0 BdST The Azimpur neighbourhood in Old Dhaka turned into a battleground on Thursday morning as violent clashes broke out there between followers of two Awami League leaders. The clashes characterised by vandalism and arsons forced motorists to a halt in the area for almost two hours until 1pm. Shah-e-Alam Murad, General Secretary of Dhaka (south) unit of the ruling Awami League, was set to collect…
report on bdnews24.com, Nov 17,2017 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Myanmar and Bangladesh this weekend, his ministry said on Thursday, amid a crisis over Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims. More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a military counter-insurgency clearance operation in Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s Rakhine State. A top UN official has described the military’s actions as a textbook case of “ethnic cleansing”. Myanmar rejects accusations of…