Story Archive
2020-01-08
Incumbent Tsai Ing-wen calls on young people to turn out and fight for the future of Taiwan’s freedom and democracy.
2020-01-08
A U.S.-based human rights group once more calls on the Hong Kong government to investigate reports of police violence against protesters.
2020-01-08
An annual report calls on US Congress to pressure China on rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
2020-01-07
Similar Ministry of Education directives were issued in 2018 and last year.
2020-01-07
Journalists, activists, and artists are among the army’s leading lawsuit targets.
2020-01-07
U.S. analyst, Indonesian officials say Chinese ships still operating as of Tuesday in Indonesia’s Exclusive Economic Zone.
2020-01-07
North Korean government tells people to use self-reliance to get through sanctions.
2020-01-07
The country's ministry of education bans overseas textbooks from compulsory education and orders a nationwide review of teaching materials.
2020-01-07
Ek Sarun, charged with unintended murder and injury, pays U.S. $90K for release.
2020-01-07
The children and a teacher were searching for firewood on a hill when they were hit by an explosion.
2020-01-07
A Presbyterian pastor in Taiwan raises millions in support of protesters fleeing arrest in Hong Kong.
2020-01-06
Government deploys additional warships, fishermen to counter Chinese ships in region.
2020-01-06
Sources in Tibet say many more monks were arrested in the area since.
2020-01-06
Prime Minister Hun Sen blames the building’s construction contractor, who died in the accident.
2020-01-06
Relief groups says it has difficulty reaching all refugees from a year of fighting in Rakhine.
2020-01-06
Bahram Sintash says the international community ‘doesn’t believe’ China’s propaganda.
2020-01-06
Hong Kong's government is doing a better job of keeping people informed than Beijing, according to residents of mainland China.
2020-01-06
Government arrested 39 in 2019 on national security charges, including journalists, bloggers, publishers and even readers of “hostile” media.
2020-01-06
Vladivostok’s North Korean restaurant workers did not return home, reported for work on New Year’s Day.
2020-01-06
Security is tight on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where police fired around 1,000 tear gas rounds in November.
2020-01-06
Chain of Indonesian islands lies at southern end of the contested South China Sea.
2020-01-03
Foreign minister says arbitration is possible if China or other nations object to U.N. request.
2020-01-03
Shwe Mann discusses the growth of his Union Betterment Party, the military’s involvement in politics, and the 2020 elections.
2020-01-03
The directive comes as the rebel Arakan Army steps up its abductions of local employees.
2020-01-03
The move will further hurt downstream communities already hit by a severe drought called the worst in 60 years by the Mekong River Commission.
2020-01-03
The trade continues elsewhere in the country, though, with sales reported in Chinese shops in the capital, Vientiane.
2020-01-03
Dong Yaoqiong's father says she is dull and unresponsive after her release, suggesting that she may still be taking medication.
2020-01-03
Sources say accident happened because developer’s permit did not allow seven stories.
2020-01-03
Women candidates in Taiwan's 2020 general election speak about what drove them to run for the legislature.
2020-01-02
The lack of official information about an outbreak of viral pneumonia has residents of Wuhan fearing another SARS-style cover-up.
