Story Archive
2020-05-12
Journalists were forced to kneel on the ground in a recent operation to disperse protesters in Mong Kok.
2020-05-11
Residents must exchange their foreign cash at banks in exchange for North Korean won.
2020-05-11
Ho Duy Hai’s family members say they have petitioned lawmakers in a last-ditch effort to save him.
2020-05-11
Bangladeshis, Indonesians, Myanmar nationals among 1,000 foreign workers detained in immigration raid.
2020-05-11
Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi condemned the “inhumane treatment” on Chinese fishing boats.
2020-05-11
Former students, friends, and family speak about the life of Mahsum, who died in detention in 2018.
2020-05-11
The five men, whose hands are tied behind their backs, are forced to confess to being Arakan Army fighters.
2020-05-11
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader says the human capacity to reason may now point the way to 'come together in a global response.'
2020-05-11
A walnut-seller visiting Lhasa was found with a photo of the Dalai Lama on his mobile phone.
2020-05-11
Farmers say they have been cultivating the land since the 1970s, but the government says it is part of a conservation zone.
2020-05-11
Pro-Beijing politicians say the city's youth have been 'radicalized' by its liberal education program in schools.
2020-05-11
The move is seen as a bid to encourage more international students to absorb the ruling party's propaganda.
2020-05-08
Customs official banished to a remote area after being caught smuggling.
2020-05-08
Hackers used Aria-body, an intrusive new tool, to attack computers in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and Brunei, report says.
2020-05-08
“The Chinese Communist Party must end its pattern of bullying Southeast Asians out of offshore oil, gas, and fisheries,” said Adm. John Aquilino.
2020-05-08
Nguyen Quang Lap was found dead on May 8 only three days after beginning a six-year term in prison.
2020-05-08
New law requiring vehicles to have license plates led to traffic fine bonanza.
2020-05-08
Those sent home will continue to be monitored by local officials for signs of ill health, though, provincial officials say.
2020-05-08
An approval would bring the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act a significant step closer to becoming law.
2020-05-08
The man’s aunt demands that authorities bring his killers to justice.
2020-05-08
The EU's ambassador made a 'mistake' in giving the go-ahead for the censorship, officials say.
2020-05-08
The guards were acting at the behest of a pro-Beijing politician whose authority to order their removal has been questioned.
2020-05-07
After insisting for weeks it would take no more refugees, Bangladesh relents and rescues hundreds.
2020-05-07
Iminjan Seydin appeared in a video praising the government after he was missing for three years.
2020-05-07
The foreign minister asks why the bodies of three Indonesians were thrown overboard.
2020-05-07
Residents must pay in food or cash to help construction of a new hospital in the capital.
2020-05-07
Choekyi, a monk, had served a four-year prison term for making a T-shirt celebrating the 80th birthday of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
2020-05-07
An environmental activist says local authorities have no intention of resolving the problem.
2020-05-07
‘They threaten villagers, loot, and create problems, so that we Rakhine people are more afraid of army columns than of battles,’ says activist Arn Tha Gyi.
2020-05-07
Christian villagers are often harassed and refused official help, with some told they worship 'America's god.'
