Japan’s Kishida vows to regain trust in church controversy

“I squarely face the people’s voices regarding our relationship with the Unification Church,” Kishida said in his speech opening the 69-day parliamentary session. He promised to “do utmost” to help victims of the church’s suspect businesses and donation collection by setting up a government help desk offering legal advise. He’sContinue Reading

The Beautiful Game at its ugliest in Indonesia

JAKARTA – Riot police firing billowing clouds of teargas are being blamed for triggering a stampede at an already emotionally-charged football game in East Java that killed at least 135 people in Indonesia’s worst-ever sporting tragedy. It ranks as the world’s second worst football disaster after Peru’s Estadio Stadium bloodshed in May 1964 when 328 […]

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