Survivors of the American nuclear bombing of Hiroshima will be present when US President Barack Obama lays a wreath at ground zero this week, reports said on Wednesday (May 25).
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would allow victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks of 2001 to sue Saudi Arabia, U.S. media reported.
More than 400 people have been cheated out of at least HK$320 million by scammers acting as middlemen to secure loans for struggling property owners and plunging them further into debt.
Nearly two out of 10 primary and secondary school students were either perpetrators or victims of cyber bullying, carried out often by acquaintances while victims react with passivity, a report showed Tuesday.
The government aims to settle past serious human rights violation cases by early May through reconcilition, or through a non judicial process, despite criticism by human rights groups and the families of victims.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday met with Gil Won-ok, one of the victims who were drafted by Japan as so-called "comfort women" during the Second World War, Ban's spokesman told reporters here.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) highlighted on Monday that the issue of "comfort women" remains unsettled despite recent Japanese claims to the contrary.
Australian victims of child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church returned home on Sunday (March 7) disappointed they did not meet Pope Francis and angry with the evidence a senior Vatican official gave to an inquiry investigating the abuse.
Apple boss Tim Cook told his employees on Monday that the company’s refusal to cooperate with a US government to unlock an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the two shooters in the San Bernardino attack, was a defense of civil liberties.
South Korea's foreign ministry on Tuesday refuted the comments by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who denied the "forced" recruitment of Korean women as sex slaves during World War II.
South Korea's wartime sex slavery victims on Wednesday refused to receive reparations from the Japanese government, calling the Seoul-Tokyo agreement on the war crime a "nullification."
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday urged Japan to play its role in implementing the bilateral agreement on Japan's wartime sex slavery of Korean women during World War Two.
The Nepali government has decided to deploy Nepal Army helicopters to launch emergency rescue and relief operations in the earthquake-hit areas, government officials said on Sunday.
The identities of 17 victims have been confirmed in a bus fire caused by arson in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, according to local authorities.
German police have so far identified a total of 16 suspects who could relate to sex attacks committed against women in the western German city of Cologne, German media Focus Online reported on Thursday.
Activists fighting for rights of"comfort women"rallied Wednesday around Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence demanding that the government properly handle the historical issue, rather than using money to made a deal over the country's wartime wrongdoing.
South Korean victims of Japan's forced labor during World War II on Tuesday held a rally in central Seoul, calling for the rapid opening of the trial against Japan's "war criminal" companies.
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