Blind activist lawyer set to be released in China

Heavy security surrounded the rural home of a blind, self-taught activist lawyer to be released from a Chinese prison Thursday after a four-year sentence that supporters say stemmed from his work documenting forced abortions and other abuses.

The Jammu and Kashmir situation: The Security Forces

Of all the pieces in the Kashmiri jigsaw, none has been more criticized than the security forces, whether it is the army, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the Border Security Force (BSF), or the Jammu and Kashmir Police. Alleged actions by them have triggered off protests time and again and now the protests have snowballed into the phenomenon of stone-pelting.

In Gulf work camp, jobless begin glum journey home

Hundreds finally started returning home to India, Pakistan and elsewhere with tickets purchased by UAE authorities. — Photo by AFP SHARJAH: The hidden face of the Emirates' economic crunch is in places such as Industrial Zone 18 and the ramshackle compound for about 700 migrant workers within.

New rules for residential security barriers

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — Security barriers such as guard houses, boom gates and fences that have been mushrooming in neighbourhoods in and around the city have to comply with new guidelines or risk being demolished by local authorities. The new Cabinet approved guidelines were released today by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and are ...

Local pilot fails procedures, met by deputies after landing

Homeland Security officials say it was because pilot Mark Ort, also a local attorney, shrugged off crucial cross-border procedures on his trip from Canada to Lancaster that caused them to greet him at the county airport with armed sheriff's deputies and their K-9 unit.