Story Archive
2019-12-17
Rights groups urge humane treatment for possible trafficking victims.
2019-12-17
Rights organizations propose independent body to look into enforced disappearance cases.
2019-12-17
The two men had said sending the ethnic Kazakhs back to China would result in their torture.
2019-12-17
Funds needed to build the government-ordered systems were never released, leading to a request by affected provinces to postpone the deadline for construction.
2019-12-17
Hong Kong officials say Chinese police have the right to detain people on the massive sea bridge connecting the city to the mainland and Macau.
2019-12-17
Reports indicate that the Chinese team has been warned that it can't lose to the former British colony, which has seen six months of pro-democracy protests.
2019-12-17
The detentions follow Chinese government warnings against posting illegal content on the WeChat messaging service.
2019-12-17
Chinese authorities are mounting a crackdown on North Korean fisheries products.
2019-12-16
End rights violations against minority Muslims in Xinjiang, Muhammadiyah tells Beijing.
2019-12-16
Very few Rohingya refugees have returned to Myanmar, fearing continued violence and systematic discrimination.
2019-12-16
After being sentenced on another charge, protester Paul Lu had handed the judge a broken scale to show his distrust of Myanmar's court system.
2019-12-16
Mesut Ozil had called on Muslims to speak out against China for its policies in Xinjiang.
2019-12-16
Josep Borrell calls for ‘immediate action’ on a process of national reconciliation through dialogue.
2019-12-16
The 'disappearance' of actress Fan Bingbing in a tax evasion clampdown had a chilling effect on the industry, an insider says.
2019-12-16
His comments come as police face questions over the beating and pepper-spraying of a journalist covering the protests.
2019-12-13
Nearly 50 Republicans and Democrats call for Magnitsky Act measures on Xinjiang party boss Chen Quanguo.
2019-12-13
A notice of verdict was among leaked documents China had sought to discredit.
2019-12-13
Critics say she ignored facts, human suffering as she rehashed discredited talking points.
2019-12-13
Family members of two other recently missing Lao activists are still searching for answers.
2019-12-13
Stephen Rapp, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues at the State Department's Office of Global Criminal Justice, discusses the Rohingya genocide hearing.
2019-12-13
Judge Rohatul Akmar Abdullah says Mun Chol Myong has 15 days to appeal the ruling.
2019-12-13
Computer science students edited foreign porn videos and sold them on flash drives
2019-12-13
Washington and Beijing are competing over the sea but that does mean conflict, Pacific Fleet commander says.
2019-12-13
Three Chinese arrested in a failed ransom plot.
2019-12-13
He Linxia was behind the publication of an expose of behind-the-scenes machinations by Mao Zedong later banned from public sale in China.
2019-12-12
Aung San Suu Kyi’s performance appealed to loyalists, but few others.
2019-12-12
The government wants the EU to both maintain tariff-free market access and butt out of its affairs.
2019-12-12
An ethnic Vietnamese raised in Hong Kong returns from his studies abroad to take part in pro-democracy protests on the front line.
2019-12-12
The Hong Kong protests are fueling calls for the declaration of a Republic of Taiwan.
2019-12-12
Dao Quang Thuc died on Dec. 10 of what prison authorities called a stroke, and was quickly buried the same day, his son says.
