25 Dec, 2009, Thailand
The Fears are growing for safety of about 4,000 Hmong refugees, subject to deportation from Thailand within days. The head of the United Nations refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, has urged Thailand to call off its plan for sending the ethnic Hmong back to Laos. The United States has expressed concern and [...]

19 Dec, 2009, Cambodia

A group of around 20 Chinese Uighurs who fled to Cambodia after the ethnic riots in region of China’s Urumqi in July will be expelled. They had to be expelled because they did the mistake of entering Cambodia illegally.
This decision follows the intense pressure by China that has referred [...]

18 Dec, 2009, Scotland, UK
The Finance Secretary, John Swinney said that the collapsed Scottish airline Flyglobespan is badly let down by the company that was handling its credit bookings. The Edinburgh-based airline went in the administration on Wednesday, leaving around 550 staff without any job and thousands of passengers were stranded abroad.
Mr. Swinney has said [...]

18 Dec, 2009, Morocco, Africa
The Western Sahara activist who was expelled by Morocco has been allowed to return from Spain after she maintained a hunger strike for around a month. Aminatou Haidar of 42 years left Lanzarote airport in Canary Islands on small, private plane after the deal was reached whose details are unclear. [...]

17 Dec, 2009, Europe

An Irish bishop resigned weeks after handling of child sex abuse allegations was severely criticised. The report on abuse by the priests in Dublin Archdiocese found that Donal Murray’s was handling a case while an auxiliary bishop in the 1980s was inexcusable. The Vatican said that the Pope had accepted [...]

17 Dec 2009, Hyderabad, India

The South Indian film star, Chiranjeevi resigned from the Andhra Pradesh assembly so as to protest against the moves to create the new state of Telangana. Chiranjeevi has starred in around 100 films before he started his own political party, Praja Rajyam Party. Chiranjeevi with his 15 party legislators [...]

16 Dec 2009, Copenhagen
There is a massive police deployment across the Copenhagen after the protesters blocked the metro and rail lines. The Police helicopters are encircling Bella Centre that is the venue of the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Protesters are marching towards the venue despite the snow and sleet. Around a hundred protesters have already [...]

15 Dec, 2009, Copenhagen
The UN’s climate chief has warned that The Negotiations at the Copenhagen summit are progressing very slowly. Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the UN’s climate body claimed that there was still an enormous amount of work that needed to be done before the final deal could be signed.
Delegates are [...]