Story Archive
2017-05-24
The new round is focusing on political dialogue with ethnic armed groups.
2017-05-24
The democratic island's constitutional court says current laws restricting marriage to heterosexuals violate the rights of gay citizens.
2017-05-24
Churches that do not comply are subjected to raids, or are shut down for 'health and safety' reasons, church members say.
2017-05-24
Fellow asylum-seeker Dong Guangping is being denied money to buy additional food and supplies in prison, and has been given a government-appointed lawyer.
2017-05-23
The Arakan Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, and Ta’ang National Liberation Army will attend as ‘special guests.’
2017-05-23
Police surround their family homes, working in shifts to restrict access and monitor daily activities.
2017-05-23
The Sangha says any breach of its order would lead to punishment under Buddhist and secular law.
2017-05-23
Yang Shuping used air quality as a metaphor to hit out at choking controls on freedom of speech back home in China.
2017-05-23
Local people are incensed at the behavior of village officials, saying they have sold off land and refuse to account for money missing from village coffers.
2017-05-23
Officials and state-run media refuse to verify a recent report detailing the decimation of the CIA's China networks in The New York Times, but don't deny it either.
2017-05-22
A last-minute order by the country’s electoral body has seen parties scale back rallies.
2017-05-22
They demand an apology from the ethnic militia and a pledge to help the families of those the soldiers killed.
2017-05-22
They demand that officials help fishermen whose livelihoods are jeopardized by a fishing ban in the waters off the port town of Kyaukphyu.
2017-05-22
Linked to an overseas opposition group, Tran Vu Anh Binh was jailed for six years, with a year spent in pretrial detention counted toward his sentence.
2017-05-22
Lawyers and relatives of several prisoners of conscience are continuing to report beatings and mistreatment of clients and loved ones.
2017-05-19
The country’s National Election Committee places restrictions on public rallies in the run-up to local elections on June 4.
2017-05-19
But observers question how willing the government is to listen.
2017-05-19
A Buthidaung township administrator says the crime may be linked to extremists.
2017-05-19
More than 90 percent of Xinjiang’s residents received checkups over a seven-month period.
2017-05-19
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden hits out at Hong Kong officials, saying 'someone wants to make these families disappear.'
2017-05-19
Ni Yulan and her husband say they are continually being targeted for covert forms of police harassment, including serial evictions on various pretexts.
2017-05-19
Malaysian official had expressed concern over possibility of poisoning of players by sabotage, if match played in Pyongyang.
2017-05-19
President Rodrigo Duterte reveals threats amid mounting criticism that he has gone soft on Beijing.
2017-05-19
Jamyang Losal's protest brings to 150 the number of self-immolations by Tibetans living in China.
2017-05-19
Zhang Leilei has been told to leave the city as police crack down on activists ahead of a politically sensitive anniversary and the Fortune Global Forum later in the year.
2017-05-19
Rights groups say heavier penalties means fewer guards offering to help flee the country.
2017-05-18
Kim Jong Un’s government rewards them with more food and better housing.
2017-05-18
Caterer Aye Aye Soe had poured boiling water over a 14-year-old girl she accused of stealing oranges.
2017-05-18
Citizens must apply for a certificate confirming their identities in order to vote in commune elections on June 4.
2017-05-18
Citizens must apply for a certificate confirming their identities in order to vote in commune elections on June 4.
