Story Archive
2019-10-23
Ha Van Thanh had joined a protest march of victims of an April 2016 toxic waste spill and fled Vietnam two years later, fearing arrest.
2019-10-23
But an official says the township has a village with even more people detained.
2019-10-23
Chan Tong-kai apologizes on his release from a sentence for stealing his dead girlfriend's money, vowing to 'surrender himself' to the democratic island.
2019-10-23
China dismisses reports that Beijing is seeking an early end to chief executive Carrie Lam's term in office.
2019-10-23
Workers must return home by the end of the year, but Pyongyang wants every last yuan they can get out of them.
2019-10-22
She had traveled to Bangkok to organize support for party chief Sam Rainsy’s return from exile.
2019-10-22
Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah want more evidence about China’s treatment of the minority group.
2019-10-22
Military says it killed nine AA while sustaining only minor injuries, but AA says it killed 3 dozen with only two casualties.
2019-10-22
Chan Tong-kai will get out of prison after serving a jail term for money-laundering on Wednesday, but Taiwan has yet to find a way to detain him.
2019-10-22
Zhou Yongjun says he has no plans other than to seek medical attention and get some rest.
2019-10-21
Two-month journey took them through China, Vietnam on the way to a chance for haven in South Korea.
2019-10-21
Himit Kari had openly criticized the policies he enforced at a friend’s gathering early this year.
2019-10-21
But conditions must be made safe for their return, and rights as citizens established, Rohingya refugees say.
2019-10-21
Dhaka plans to relocate about 3,000 people from Cox’s Bazar camps early next month.
2019-10-21
Human Rights Watch says dozens of arrests in recent months indicate repression will continue.
2019-10-21
Nguyen Van Duc Do is serving an 11-year prison term for criticizing the government's handling of a 2016 chemical waste spill that devastated Vietnam's central coast.
2019-10-21
Sources say the authorities are selling out the country’s mineral wealth for a quick fix to the country’s power shortage problems.
2019-10-21
Chen Jianfeng was detained shortly after penning an essay in memory of her mentor Cao Shunli, who died in police custody.
2019-10-21
The apologies come after police deploy water cannon and tear gas to disperse a protest on Kowloon's Nathan Road.
2019-10-20
The democratic island is seen as a safe haven and a possible destination for permanent settlement.
2019-10-18
Report shows that North Korea’s 'Arduous March had lasting effects on children well into the 2010s.
2019-10-18
They are accused of raising funds to support the ethnic Arakan Army in its fight against Myanmar government forces.
2019-10-18
He said that he also plans to ‘liberate’ CNRP President Kem Sokha, who is under de facto house arrest.
2019-10-18
Ha Van Nam must go back to jail to serve his full term for role in a protest that blocked traffic at a BOT toll station in Bac Ninh.
2019-10-18
Police ban a mass rally planned by the Civil Human Rights Front on Sunday, though many are expected to attend to protest an attack on the group's convenor.
2019-10-18
Li Wenzu says her husband Wang Quanzhang has suddenly put on weight and has extreme sunburn on his face.
2019-10-17
Sam Brownback says Muslims made aware of the Uyghurs’ plight should press their governments to confront China.
2019-10-17
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback urges the people of Muslim majority nations to pressure their governments to condemn China’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
2019-10-17
General Aung San, father of Aung San Suu Kyi, is not widely celebrated by minorities.
2019-10-17
No evidence has been found so far that would support a conviction, a Cambodian rights group says.
