Tag Archives : Sumatra

The tsunami triggered by a strong earthquake near the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, has killed at least 40 people and left 380 others missing, officials said this Tuesday, 26. The death toll was expected to rise, since the authorities still seek victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The quake had a magnitude of 7.7 on the Richter scale. Witnesses [...]

To say that the present conflict in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province is bloody is an understatement. While more than a thousand have been killed, there are at least 2 million people displaced. All these sacrifices will be for naught if Pakistan does not restrategize its ambitions in Afghanistan and Indian Kashmir. The country also has to reform [...]

The tragedy of the Rohingya refugees occupies a special issue in the migrant debate as it has affected many ASEAN member countries. The Rohingya boat people, part of a Muslim minority group living in western Burma’s Arakan State, fled their country in waves over the recent months because of the tremendous pressure they were under from the military [...]