カテゴリー: Protest
Dozens of police officers injured as anger erupts over billions allegedly spent on bogus relief projectsTens of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets on Sunday to protest against government corruption after it was alleged that taxpayers have lost …
Talk of revolution in the coffee shops of Nepal increased after protest movements across south AsiaAcross Kathmandu, the acrid stench of smoke still lingers. Singha Durbar, the opulent palace that housed Nepal’s parliament, stands charred and empty, it…
Residents in Kathmandu mobilised on 10 September for a cleanup operation after days of anti-corruption protests that led to the resignation of the prime minister, KP Sharma Oli. Volunteers gathered at the Department of Transport Management office to cl…
Residents in Kathmandu mobilised on 10 September for a cleanup operation after days of anti-corruption protests that led to the resignation of the prime minister, KP Sharma Oli. Volunteers gathered at the Department of Transport Management office to cl…
‘This is our revolution. It’s our turn now’: Nepal’s ‘gen Z protesters’ speak out against corruption
Young Nepalis led a mass protest in Kathmandu on Monday and have paid for it with bullet wounds or their livesThe whiteboard listing the names of patients at a hospital in central Kathmandu tells the story of a protest gone badly wrong. Beside each nam…
‘This is our revolution. It’s our turn now’: Nepal’s ‘gen Z protesters’ speak out against corruption
Young Nepalis led a mass protest in Kathmandu on Monday and have paid for it with bullet wounds or their livesThe whiteboard listing the names of patients at a hospital in central Kathmandu tells the story of a protest gone badly wrong. Beside each nam…
Cities in Indonesia have been rocked by protests after footage spread of a motorcycle taxi driver being run over by a police tactical vehicleFire kills three people in Indonesia after protesters storm council buildings after driver’s death Continue rea…
Cities in Indonesia rocked by protests after motorcycle taxi driver run over by police tactical vehicleProtesters have torched parliamentary buildings in three further Indonesian provinces, a day after at least three people were killed by a fire starte…
Government faces calls for police reform amid violent clashes across Jakarta and demonstrations in other citiesHundreds of Indonesians have protested at sites across Jakarta over the death of a man hit by a police vehicle, in the first big test for Pra…
Demonstrations erupt in Jakarta over perceived lavish allowances of parliament members and ‘corrupt elites’Protesters clash with police in Indonesian capital amid president’s austerity drive Continue reading…
Five female activists talk about their lives since Sheikh Hasina was ousted – and how the country can secure lasting change for women’s rightsOn 5 August 2024, Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister of Bangladesh and fled the country, the culmination…
At a demonstration in Westminster, people from both sides of India-Pakistan divide call for more than mere ceasefirePeople around the world held their breath this week as India and Pakistan appeared to edge closer and closer towards war.For diaspora co…
Dozens of royalists injured in clashes with police fuelled by political instability and economic discontentTwo people have been killed and dozens injured after protests in Kathmandu calling for the restoration of Nepal’s monarchy ended in clashes with …
The artist, who has an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, created a unique body of work from jail uniforms, soap and lids while detained by Myanmar’s regimeThe Burmese painter Htein Lin’s art bears the imprint of his years in a Myanmar jail, wher…
South Koreans for and against impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol rallied on adjacent streets in the Hannam-dong neighbourhood of Seoul on 4 January, just streets away from his official presidential residence. South Korean investigators again asked the c…