UPDATED at 1:10 p.m. EDT on 2022-05-27 Leaders of two of the least developed countries in Southeast Asia, Laos and Cambodia, denied Friday they have fallen into a Chinese debt trap despite owing billions of dollars to their giant neighbor. Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen and Laos President Thongloun Sisoulith both spoke at the 27th
Issued on: 15/05/2022 – 07:05Modified: 15/05/2022 – 07:08 Polls opened on Sunday in Lebanon’s first election since the deadly Beirut port blast and the country’s economic collapse, making it a test of whether Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies can preserve their parliamentary majority amid soaring poverty and public anger. The parliamentary election is a first
Issued on: 22/04/2022 – 22:27 A French appeals court on Friday overturned the convictions of two police officers accused of raping a Canadian woman at their Paris headquarters eight years ago. The drawn-out case involving Antoine Quirin and Nicolas Redouane was widely followed and stoked claims of impunity for the security forces. But the two were
Cambodian’s autocratic Prime Minister Hun Sen has doled out at least 900 hectares of land reclaimed from one of the last large natural lakes in Phnom Penh to his sister, a wealthy tycoon and ally, and top military officials all benefiting from the largesse, according to a domestic land rights organization. The privatization and filling
The Lao government has lost U.S. $767 million to corruption since 2016, with government development and investment projects such as road and bridge construction the leading source of the widespread graft, according to the country’s State Inspection Authority. The SIA reported on April 11 that nearly 3,700 members of the communist Lao People’s Revolutionary Party
She was at a college buddys birthday party … and her buddys hubby is a chief prosecutor at the provincial district attorneys workplace. He boasted to them about it,” said the source, who requested privacy for security reasons. ” The regular residents do not get any food provisions at all. Authorities of the provincial party
The U.S. federal government barred previous Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández from entering the nation, and made the choice public as it seeks to enhance ties with the Central American nation as part of efforts to suppress migration to the U.S.The State Department said Monday it included Mr. Hernández on its Corrupt and Undemocratic Actors
Some said they were scared to be important, while @qimoshanrenruyushenglizhe commented: “Dont be scared. I am publishing too. If everybody stays quiet, then this country is finished.” ,” the individual said. Social media users have actually been scolding China state-owned media, which is tightly controlled by the judgment Chinese Communist Party (CCP), over their failure
