Story Archive
2020-10-28
The family of an exiled opposition official was threatened, and several activists have been detained.
2020-10-28
Nothing has been heard about the three men believed to have been sent back to China in September amid fears they may have been harshly treated or killed on their return.
2020-10-28
Thousands of homes are flooded, damaged, or destroyed, as authorities close schools, beaches, and airports across central coastal provinces.
2020-10-28
The authorities are using verbal pressure to force lawyers to stop representing detained activists who fled Hong Kong by speedboat.
2020-10-28
The student union says it is disappointed at the appointment of two Tsinghua University academics to vice president jobs.
2020-10-27
Rushed work by untrained troops caused two explosions in the country’s northeast.
2020-10-27
PPE is imported from China and polling stations are added as country of 54 million faces surge in pandemic.
2020-10-27
Forced resettlement schemes and military-style 'vocational training' have uprooted thousands from traditional livelihoods, taking them far from their homes, experts say.
2020-10-27
The ruling means the investigation will continue, nearly three years after the pair were arrested.
2020-10-27
The designation would allow Washington to coordinate an international effort to intervene.
2020-10-27
Chung was taken away from the vicinity of the US Consulate, where he had planned to seek political asylum.
2020-10-27
He Fangmei has been incommunicado, believed detained along with her disabled daughter since Oct. 6, after she splashed ink on a government building.
2020-10-26
Coronavirus has sapped trade workers’ incomes, yet they must pay hefty fee to Pyongyang.
2020-10-26
'Your wife and children still live in Phnom Penh,' Hun Sen tells US-based exile CNRP figure Ho Vann.
2020-10-26
But US ships shouldn't enter or operate in Manila's exclusive economic zone, the Philippines' defense secretary says.
2020-10-26
China’s coastguard and maritime militia are a semi-permanent fixture in the exclusive economic zones and near the claimed land features of its neighbors.
2020-10-26
Sources say supporters armed with weapons started fights with political rivals.
2020-10-26
The cases have thrown the city into a lockdown with mandatory testing of millions.
2020-10-26
They say that the heightened risk of persecution Uyghurs face requires greater US protection.
2020-10-26
Michael Nguyen, a resident of California, had been serving a 12-year prison term and was freed on what the US Embassy in Hanoi called 'humanitarian grounds.'
2020-10-26
Chinese fishing vessels bearing no tracking technology are depleting fish and squid stocks around the world, researchers say.
2020-10-26
Government orders all citizens to wear coronavirus masks publicly, but only if they are “legitimately’ produced.
2020-10-26
Critics of the CCP are being taken out of town, with tight security around the Jingxi Hotel.
2020-10-23
Presidential office says kidnapping incident rolls back hard-fought democratic freedoms.
2020-10-23
The four were convicted of terror-related offenses in 2015, and were sent back to China last month after China paid their fines.
2020-10-23
Lau Phan, an electrical engineer, was killed in a robbery as he carried funds to pay his workers, in the fourth murder of a Chinese worker in Bangladesh since June 20, 2019.
2020-10-23
The Myawaddy had said that candidates for parliament must preserve the country's 'race and religion,' a violation of election laws.
2020-10-23
Matt Pottinger says Beijing should be called out for abuses, including those against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
2020-10-23
Nguyen Quang Khai had angered authorities by using the popular social media platform to discuss social and political problems in Vietnam.
2020-10-23
Users posted hundreds of thousands of tweets under the hashtag ‘if Lao politics was good’ in recent days.
