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DHAKA — At least five people were killed and scores injured across Bangladesh on Tuesday (July 16) as young government supporters and police firing tear gas clashed with students protesting against a quota system for government jobs, police said.
DHAKA - Soldiers patrolled the deserted streets of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Saturday (July 20) and the government ordered all offices and institutions to stay closed for two days after at least 114 people were killed this week during student-led protests against government job quotas.
DHAKA — Television news channels in Bangladesh were off the air and telecommunications were widely disrupted on Friday (July 19) amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in which nearly two dozen people have been killed this week.
DHAKA — More than 100 students were injured across Bangladesh on Monday (July 15) in clashes between those protesting to end a quota system for government jobs and others loyal to the ruling party, police and witnesses said.
NEW DELHI — The chief organiser of an Indian preacher's event where a stampede killed 121 people this week surrendered to police on Friday (July 5), a lawyer for the preacher said, after police had launched a manhunt.
NEW DELHI — Lawyers and activists in India are urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to put on hold three sets of new criminal laws, arguing they will increase litigation in an already overburdened justice system and give excessive powers to the police.
JAKARTA — Indonesia's national human rights commission is investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly beaten to death by police on the island of Sumatra, officials said on June 25.
Bangkok police are searching for a Chinese tourist who went missing in the Thai capital, whose father received a ransom demand of five million yuan (S$932,000) for her safe return.