ASIA TODAY North Korean “space vector” launch failed

Other news of the day: Presidential elections in Turkey: the OSCE considers that there was an ‘unfair advantage’ for Erdogan in the second round. For the UN special rapporteur, the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are “the new Palestinians”. With hundreds of police officers and mass arrests, Beijing is trying to quell protests by Hui Muslims in Yunnan. According to Nepalese experts, climatic changes are responsible for the continuous deaths in the Himalayas. The birth rate plummets in Russia with a 31% drop in second children.

NORTH KOREA

He “space vector” North Korean, which was launched this morning, crashed in the West Korean Sea due to an abnormal start of the engine that caused the mission to fail. The operation triggered the maximum alert in Tokyo and Seoul. Pyongyang had announced yesterday the imminent launch of the first military reconnaissance satellite in June.

Türkiye

A joint mission of OSCE international observers denounced that in the second round of the presidential electionse Turkey, on May 28, there were “unequal conditions, bias in the media and lack of transparency” that favored the victory of the outgoing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He also referred to the use of “discriminatory and incendiary language.”

BANGLADESH – MYANMAR

The rohingya refugees in Bangladesh they risk becoming “the new Palestinians”, victims of a protracted and increasingly forgotten humanitarian and diplomatic crisis, said Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. The official also said that the million people crammed into the fields of Cox’s Bazar in “terrible” conditions have the right to work in the host country.

CHINA

Beijing has deployed hundreds of police and carried out numerous arrests to quell the muslim protest I fled in Yunnan, who have taken to the streets in rejection of the government project that wants to tear down and rebuild the dome of the mosque with “Chinese style.” One million Uighurs, Hui and other Muslim minorities have been arrested in Xinjiang since 2017 in a crackdown.

NEPAL

Climate changes would be responsible for the death on everest of 17 climbers in recent weeks. The head of the Kathmandu tourism board attributed the record -until now- of accidents and victims registered this year to extreme climatic variability. According to director Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the environmental issue has “a huge impact on the mountains.”

MALAYSIA – MACAU

Jho Low, suspected of being the fraud mastermind 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1Mdb), would be hidden in Macao. The Malaysian anti-corruption commission speaks of “various sources” who claim to have seen the businessman in the Chinese special administrative region. There is an international arrest warrant against him, for the biggest case of kleptocracy in the world.

RUSSIA

Several statistical institutes confirmed that the birth rate in Russia has plummeted in recent years, with a 19.9% ​​decrease in first children and a 31% decrease in second children. Almost half of the births occur in the age group between 30 and 39 years, but in 2030 this category will be reduced by 33.8%, from 12 million to 7.9 million. The other age categories are also in sharp decline.

KYRGYZSTAN – UZBEKISTAN

The new rounds of negotiations between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan for the demarcation of the borders between both States concluded in Samarkand, in which the legal-regulatory and technical documents of the agreed part were approved. The border between Uzbeks and Tajiks stretches for 1,314 km, and the disputes ended in November 2022. There are still 300 km to be defined.