Story Archive
2019-12-20
Their traffickers meanwhile remain at large.
2019-12-20
The letter comes amid debate on whether to boycott Beijing’s 2022 Winter Games over the issue.
2019-12-20
Concerns over this year's observance may reflect worries about ties to a ceremony in India led by the Dalai Lama.
2019-12-20
Security Council resolution requires that all North Korean workers return home by Dec. 22.
2019-12-20
Raid follows similar roundups in September and October targeting cybercrimes.
2019-12-20
President Tsai Ing-wen, who is seeking re-election next year, warns that China is the biggest threat to Taiwan's way of life.
2019-12-20
Villagers complain about horrible smells that make 10 families sick.
2019-12-20
Moving to the English capital has allowed Hun Chantha to overhaul her public persona from “klepto-brat” into respectable socialite.
2019-12-19
Delegation visited refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar to discuss repatriation efforts.
2019-12-19
Villagers say local authorities close down Cambodian mines while letting Chinese firms continue to pollute.
2019-12-19
A tourism association official says Chinese nationals travel in large groups, sharing guides and drivers.
2019-12-19
Aung San Suu Kyi opens the new facility on Rakhine state’s Munaung Island.
2019-12-19
Many of those apprehended during the first half of the year came for jobs in the mining and gambling industries.
2019-12-19
Xaysana Keopimpha was arrested in 2017 for possessing 1.2 million meth pills.
2019-12-19
Vietnamese authorities monitor and restrict the activities of the spiritual group, which is banned and harshly persecuted in China.
2019-12-19
The resolution calls for an end to mass incarcerations in the region and unfettered access to observers.
2019-12-19
Another Guangdong activist who traveled to neighboring Hong Kong to support the protest movement is now in compulsory 'rehab' for up to two years.
2019-12-19
The Tibet Policy and Support Act of 2019 passes the House Foreign Affairs Committee with bipartisan support and will next go to the full House for a vote.
2019-12-19
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong says police likely hacked his smartphone to find evidence against him after he attended a protest in August.
2019-12-19
Around a third of the country's population will be over the age of 60 by 2050, official forecasts predict.
2019-12-18
But state officials say farmers will be paid only for their lost crops, calling the land they work 'unoccupied.'
2019-12-18
In new HRNK report Digital Trenches, Martyn Williams shows how North Korea is fighting the spread of information emboldened by advances in technology.
2019-12-18
Jewher Ilham calls for lawmakers to pressure China over its abuses in Xinjiang.
2019-12-18
Nesrulla Yusuptohti, 5, was found frozen to death in a ditch covered with ice and snow.
2019-12-18
They have no powers of arrest, though, and only 'coordinate' with their counterparts in Cambodia, a national police spokesperson says.
2019-12-18
Patriotism is substituted for "freedom of thought" in the newly revised charter of Shanghai's prestigious Fudan University.
2019-12-18
Rights groups say the amendments were also adopted without an inclusive consultative process.
2019-12-18
A recent opinion survey finds that public faith in the rule of law in Hong Kong has fallen since police cracked down on the pro-democracy movement.
2019-12-17
Some remain closed, though, as authorities in the Wa region carry out studies to determine which may open again.
2019-12-17
Experts say they are trying to push back at U.S. policies towards them, and are also trying to “placate Pyongyang.”
