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The celebrated spiritual leader of over 5 million Tibetan Buddhists supports religious freedom but sees proselytizing as a source of social conflict.
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A number of journalists who cover Burma were warned by Google that they have been targeted by unknown hackers.
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There seems to be no stop to media killings in the Philippines as another Filipino broadcaster was murdered in broad daylight on 22 April.
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After banning free expression for years, Burma is now initiating greater press liberties, and even allowing exiled media agencies to work inside Burma openly.
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A bloody religious clash last month in the central-Burma town of Meikhtila left some 40 people dead and displaced roughly 9,000, leaving Muslim communities living in fear.
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An independent inventory and decommissioning of rebel weaponry follows the end of hostilities in one of the world's longest-running Islamist insurgencies.
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Defying a call by the Philippine Catholic hierarchy to refrain from self flagellation and bloody crucifixion, at least 16 devotees were nailed to crosses on Good Friday.
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The few religious leaders who spoke up following the inhuman gang-rape of a young Indian woman ended up perpetuating the very mentality behind the bestiality.
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An ethnic Kachin, Christian woman was gang-raped by the Burmese army at a church in Kachin State, northern Burma, where the insurgent war is still active.
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For 100,000 Kachin Christians in refugee camps in Laiza, on the China-Burma border, an escalating civil war means the prevailing mood of this holiday season is one of fear.
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