Story Archive
2020-11-30
The UK rolls out its residency scheme for holders of British National Overseas (BNO) passports.
2020-11-30
The Japanese government says it's up to the universities concerned to manage the potential export of sensitive technology to the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
2020-11-27
The authorities are constantly expanding restrictions on what Chinese citizens can do, see or say on line, experts say.
2020-11-27
Police in Shenzhen say they have finished their investigation, paving the way for a trial.
2020-11-26
Zhang Wuzhou stood trial this week by video-link on charges of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.'
2020-11-25
The protesters are calling on Beijing to reverse its phasing out of Mongolian-medium teaching in the region's schools.
2020-11-25
Lam blames hostile foreign infiltrators for influencing the city's young people in a speech observers believe was written by the Chinese Communist Party.
2020-11-24
US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien tells Philippine officials that Washington will help Manila defend its interests in the South China Sea.
2020-11-24
The dissidents' families are under pressure from the authorities not to speak publicly about their loved ones.
2020-11-24
The US says it is deeply concerned, and calls the arrest of Wan Yiu-sing an assault on freedom.
2020-11-23
The move is aimed at providing a faster response to encroachments by Chinese and Vietnamese fishing fleets, Indonesia's navy chief says.
2020-11-23
Guided missiles and other weapons systems will be used to combat extremists in Mindanao and to defend the Philippines' interests in the disputed regional waterway.
2020-11-23
Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam face jail terms of up to three years for their role in a peaceful protest last year.
2020-11-23
Global fashion brands have little hope of seeing anything in Xinjiang that the authorities don't want them to see, activists say.
2020-11-20
Leaders from 21 APEC nations also agreed to ensure equitable access to affordable COVID-19 vaccines.
2020-11-20
Geng Xiaonan has been denied visits from her defense lawyers and faces more serious charges than when she was first arrested.
2020-11-20
The ruling Chinese Communist Party is in the third year of a nationwide campaign that charges rich people with serious crimes and confiscates their assets.
2020-11-20
The raid comes after officials and the university management warned that graduating students' use of protest slogans was in breach of the draconian law.
2020-11-19
A journalists' association calls on police officers to start displaying their ID numbers immediately.
2020-11-18
Hong Kong companies form part of a network of concerns linking Iranian state employees, Chinese nationals and arms dealing.
2020-11-18
The Malaysian developer backed by state-owned PowerChina had failed to complete the project and must now return the land on which it would have been built.
2020-11-18
The arrests came after charges were dropped against a pro-China lawmaker accused of assaulting a pro-democracy lawmaker.
2020-11-17
The Netherlands is one of the biggest exporters to ASEAN countries within the EU, behind Germany.
2020-11-17
A top Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong says it's time the city put patriotism ahead of freedom, democracy, and human rights.
2020-11-17
Chang Weiping is taken back into secretive detention after posting to YouTube about his treatment the last time around.
2020-11-16
ASEAN leaders welcome the pact as a step toward regional integration, while one NGO says human rights will be pushed to the side.
2020-11-16
A Hong Kong court begins an inquest into the death of 22-year-old student Chow Tsz-lok, who died after falling
2020-11-16
Questions remain about the impact of such a deal on countries with strong political and diplomatic links to the US.
2020-11-13
Dhaka has rejected the Chinese firm's request to co-finance the trials, citing a lack of funds.
2020-11-13
“The strategy will still be there, and the clear national interest won’t change because Trump is no longer president,” says Carl Thayer.
