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| Myanmar should dismantle laws blocking free speech - Human Rights Watch | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), should amend and abolish laws that threaten freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Wednesday. Laws covering areas from telecommunications to defamation have been used to arrest at least 70 people this month, said the report's author, Linda Lakhdhir. The arrests come despite reforms by former President Thein Sein and the NLD, which won the November election in a landslide, giving it control of both houses of parliament and installing Suu Kyi as the country's de facto leader.
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| New Philippine defence chief says militant threat more pressing than South China Sea | | | By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Crushing Islamist militants in the Philippines will take precedence over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the incoming defence minister said on Wednesday, and spending on military hardware would reflect that. Ongoing kidnappings and the recent beheading of Western hostages by Abu Sayyaf rebels were hurting the country's reputation, and incoming president Rodrigo Duterte was frustrated by the failure to rein in the group, Delfin Lorenzana told Reuters. "These illegal activities, including kidnapping, must stop," Lorenzana, a former army general, said in his first interview with foreign media since being named defence minister. |
| Supreme Court refuses to hear gay-sex ban challenge | |  The Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to hear a petition challenging a law criminalising gay sex, a setback for gay rights activists battling in the country's courts to get the ban overturned. A number of well-known lesbian, gay and bisexual Indians had argued that Section 377 of India's penal code, which prohibits "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal", undermined their fundamental rights by failing to protect their sexual preferences. "The Supreme Court refused to hear the matter and asked the petitioners to approach the Chief Justice of India," Arvind Dattar, a lawyer for one of the petitioners, told Reuters.
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| Government hopes to pass GST bill in upcoming parliament session - minister | |  The government hopes to pass a bill for the rollout of a nationwide goods services tax (GST) in the upcoming session of parliament that starts on July 18, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu told reporters on Wednesday. The upcoming parliament session, popularly known as the monsoon session, will end on Aug. 12, Naidu said.
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| Malaysian police probe grenade attack, checking credibility of IS claim | |  Malaysian police remained doubtful that militants were behind a grenade attack on a nightspot that wounded seven people, but were forced to reassess the possibility on Wednesday after an Islamic State claim of responsibility was posted on Facebook. Investigators had previously ruled out terrorism as the motive for Tuesday's attack on the bar in Puchong, a town outside the capital Kuala Lumpur, which wounded eight people, including a woman from China. The owner of the Movida bar also used Facebook to air suspicions that there was some personal grudge against two of his customers.
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| Murders, violence on rise as parched central India battles for water | |  By Shuriah Niazi BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Imrat Namdev and her younger sister Pushpa Namdev were neighbours in Chhatarpur district, in the drought-hit Indian region of Bundelkhand. "Our village faces a severe shortage of potable water," Imrat's son, Jitendra, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Pushpa always felt my mother drew more water from the well." As northern and central India continue to suffer through severe drought and oppressive heat, police in Bundelkhand and several other regions are reporting a rise in violent - and often deadly - clashes over water.
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