Myanmar tattooist Ng La cares little for the national election organised by his country’s despised military leaders.
![Myanmar exile Ng La says the military-organised election scheduled for December 28, 2025, is 'just like a comedy show' [Ali MC/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Myanmar-Exiles-1-1764666803-1-1764748665.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Myanmar tattooist Ng La cares little for the national election organised by his country’s despised military leaders.
‘I am thoroughly disillusioned with the so-called international community’: East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta.
![East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta at the Presidential Palace in Dili, East Timor [Al MC/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ramos-Horta-resize-1765583177.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
East Timor’s declaration of independence in November 1975 was swiftly followed by invasion and decades of occupation.
Alicia Little was killed by her partner in 2017. Her killer was released from jail after two years and eight months.
Southeast Asia’s multibillion-dollar cyber-scam centres lure victims from as far away as Africa.
The Sunshine Care Centre has helped hundreds of badly injured fighters from Myanmar’s civil war recover from injuries.
![Bo Bo Khant, 23, was a sniper with the Peoples Defence Force. He stepped on a landmine and lost his left leg during a battle with Myanmar's military junta forces [Ali MC/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sunshine-Care-Centre-Ali-MC-14-1738229861.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Israel’s latest military attacks on Lebanon stir up traumatic memories of civil war for Australia’s Lebanese community.
Australian police estimate about 70 percent of the highly-addictive drug on the streets comes from the war-torn country.
Aboriginal people make up a third of all people in Australian prisons, but The Torch is working to change that.
