BANGKOK: A Philippines woman who fled Saudi Arabia and is currently receiving therapy after experiencing sexual abuse at the hands of her sponsor for 8 months recently sat down with Bikyanews.com to talk about the situation she faced and what other domestic workers from Southeast Asia can do in order to see abuse before it happens. T, who asked not to be named, said her experience is "similar" to other wome ...

BANGKOK: In a landmark ruling that has activists across Asia excited for the future of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, a transgender woman and her boyfriend have been granted permission by a Hong Kong court to get married in the first ruling of its kind in East Asia. The surprise decision only covers the right of a transgender person who was  born male to marry a man, and for one who w ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Indian-Malaysians have called for an increase in police protection and more effort to ensure that acts of violence against ethnic Indians do not increase following the shooting of an Indian in the country. "We want all the police and everyone to be vigilant in maintain peace and security in this country after a man was shot and killed. We don't want to say it is because he was Indian, but it a ...

DUBAI: A Philippines woman was reportedly "clinically dead" at a hospital in Kuwait. However, miraculously she returned to the living after giving birth to a baby boy at a local hospital in what doctors are describing as "spectacular." "We could have not written this any better for a movie," said a hospital director when Bikyanews.com called the al-Farwaniya Hospital on Sunday. "The woman and her baby are n ...

BANGKOK: Her hands still shake when she talks about what happened to her for over two years while she was “working” in Dubai for who she said began as a very “warm and loving couple.” But after about three months, the situation changed. And it changed dramatically. Kiera, the pseudonym she now goes by, told Bikyamasr.com that she was in Dubai to work as the couples caregiver for their two-year daughter. “Th ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore police have confirmed to Bikyanews.com that they warned potential protesters against such action. It comes after the police claim to have received information of a planned illegal protest this weekend at the Merlion Park, against the recent Malaysian General Election results. The statement comes in response to media queries about the event. Police noted there were allegations that it wo ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's growing animal rights movement came out in full force on Friday after a damning new report alleged widespread animal cruelty as part of the country's importing of animals from Australia. Animals Australia has once again released damning footage that reveals the abhorrent cruelty inherent in the live export trade. It is time to end the transport of animals from one country to another ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A group of young Malaysian women have told Bikyanews.com that they were sexually assaulted while attending an anti-government rally on Thursday to support opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim. The women, between ages 22-24-years-old said that men surrounded them and began groping them as they joined the outer edges of a demonstration in the capital, Kuala Lumpur. "It was horrifying as they started ...

Singapore is the safest place to be born and the best place to be a mother in Asia, beating competitors Japan, South Korea and Malaysia -- according to children's aid agency Save the Children. Singapore has the lowest first-day mortality rate in Asia, making it the safest place in the region to be born. The children's aid agency on Tuesday launched its 14th annual State of the World's Mothers report with th ...

SINGAPORE: Women's rights activists have praised the sentencing of a Swiss national accused of having commercial sex with a minor has been sentenced to jail for four months and three weeks. However, they said the sentence should have been tougher. "We battle every day and we expect some better justice from our courts when it comes to sexual violence against women, but it is a start," Gloria Yu, a 44-year-ol ...