Category: Asia
Alarm over new NGO law by Myanmar junta
YANGON (UCAN): The State Administration Council of Myanmar’s ruling military junta imposed a law making…
Catholic bishops seek mining ban in southern Philippines
MANILA (UCAN): Catholic bishops from the Archdiocese of Davao, Digos, Tagum, and Mati, in the…
Cambodia launches social security payments for poor
PHNOM PENH (UCAN): The Cambodian government initiated its third-ever social security payment system, citing a…
Philippine law protecting religious freedom passed
MANILA (UCAN): The Philippine Congress passed the Magna Carta of Religious Freedom Act on December…
Myanmar junta arrests prominent Baptist leader
(UCAN): Reverend Hkalam Samson, former head of the Kachin Baptist Convention [KBC], was briefly detained…
