28 January 2014 – Amid reports that riot police have been deployed in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to break…
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27 January 2014 – Coconut farmers in the Philippines are in urgent need of assistance to recover their livelihoods nearly…
25 January 2014 – The Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) today signed a final security agreement…
23 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights and humanitarian chiefs on Thursday voiced deep concern about reports of…
22 January 2014 – Reiterating deep concern over continued terrorist attacks and sectarian violence in Pakistan, United Nations Secretary-General Ban…
21 January 2014 – The Security Council once again today acknowledged the role of the United Nations regional office in…
20 January 2014 – The United Nations agricultural agency today issued a new warning that bird flu viruses are on…
20 January 2014 – United Nations today flew its flags at half-mast in honour of four staff members killed in…
Two people have died from the H7N9 strain of bird flu in China’s commercial hub Shanghai, including a medical doctor, the local government said Monday, the city’s first fatalities from the virus this year. The victims included a 31-year-old surgeon…
China’s working-age population continued to decline last year, the government said Monday, as Beijing grapples with a demographic time bomb that is one of its biggest challenges. The country introduced its controversial one-child policy in the late…
18 January 2014 – Top United Nations officials and the Security Council have strongly condemned a suicide attack at a…
The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said Sunday, one of the country’s biggest ever breaches. Many major firms in the South have seen customers’ data leaked in recent years…
17 January 2014 – United Nations personnel may be among at least 14 civilians killed in a suicide bombing of…
17 January 2014 – A United Nations independent human rights expert today urged Government and opposition parties in Cambodia to…
17 January 2014 – A United Nations human rights expert today called on the Myanmar Government to investigate reports of…
16 January 2014 – The recovery process in the Philippines has been steady but uneven, the United Nations top relief…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said gays need not fear persecution at the Winter Olympic Games, but stood by a controversial ban on promoting homosexuality to children. “We don’t have a ban on non-traditional sexual relations between people…
Two Pussy Riot members on Friday vowed no let-up in their campaign against human rights abuses inside Vladimir Putin’s Russia as they made their first overseas trip since being released from jail. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who were…
Rare video footage of Liu Xia, the wife of imprisoned Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, reading two self-written poems under house arrest was posted online Wednesday. Chinese authorities have not charged Liu Xia with any crime but have restricted her…
13 January 2014 – The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today denounced the murder…