Story Archive
2019-12-12
Unclear definitions and a lack of key components undermine the proposed legislation, they say.
2019-12-12
Question marks still surround the death of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology student Chow Tsz-lok in a fall from a parking garage during a protest last month.
2019-12-11
The top Asia hand at the Pentagon has criticized China’s repression in Xinjiang.
2019-12-11
In China's Xinjiang region, journalists have been arrested for work done years earlier, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
2019-12-11
The government is trying to rid itself of a large inventory of foreign-made computers and other hardware.
2019-12-11
Cambodia’s deadline to respond to EU report falls on Thursday.
2019-12-11
Allegations against Myanmar’s security forces are “incomplete and misleading,” de facto leader tells ICJ.
2019-12-11
Human Rights Watch catalogs 'absurd defense arguments' as Myanmar leader ignores key facts at the International Court of Justice.
2019-12-11
Nguyen Thuy Hanh supports prisoners and their families with contributions raised from citizens around Vietnam.
2019-12-11
A book on Arabic grammar was cited as the reason for Iminjan Seydin’s detention.
2019-12-11
Wealthy suspected of using stockpiles of ill-gotten funds to acquire bounty of foreign goods they likely intend to resell.
2019-12-11
Rights activists and pro-democracy lawmakers say the experts likely don't want their reputations affected by the current probe, which relies on police investigating themselves.
2019-12-10
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is leading the country’s defense team, observed the first day of the hearings in The Hague.
2019-12-10
The government calls the men key contributors to peace and development in Cambodia.
2019-12-10
Others warn that not holding Pyongyang accountable on human rights issues compromises U.S. values.
2019-12-10
Hun Sen counters that rights have improved under his rule … since the days of the Khmer Rouge.
2019-12-10
International lawyers hit out at the ruling Chinese Communist Party's treatment of the legal profession, disappearances and arbitrary detentions.
2019-12-10
Dao Quang Thuc was serving a 13-year prison term for his online writings criticizing Vietnam's government.
2019-12-10
Thousands defy government rule against protests as genocide case opens at the International Court of Justice.
2019-12-10
Hundreds of thousands continue to march in Hong Kong over the erosion of their promised freedoms.
2019-12-09
Some believe police and township officials go lightly on crimes by foreign residents in township on the city's outskirts.
2019-12-09
Gambia is suing Myanmar over allegations of genocide against the Rohingya people.
2019-12-09
Loyalists stage rallies while some question Myanmar's strategy of denial of well-documented atrocities.
2019-12-09
Three arrested for protesting at site of January’s controversial home demolitions.
2019-12-09
Kem Sokha’s legal team had requested that his charges be dropped citing a lack of evidence.
2019-12-09
Phetphouthon Philachane is known to have taken part in pro-democracy demonstrations at Laos’ embassy in Thailand.
2019-12-09
The region’s chairman says future ‘training’ will be based on ‘independent will,’ rather than coercion.
2019-12-06
Police arrest two Chinese in Kachin for displaying Chinese flags and signs.
2019-12-06
They must demonstrate political reliability and support of China's rule in their homeland, instructors say.
2019-12-06
Extraditing Mun Chol Myong to the United States would violate his rights, defense lawyer says.
