Story Archive
2017-11-06
Until recently, authorities avoided harassing relatives of security personnel and public servants.
2017-11-06
The four officers were returning from a local police station when a group of armed men across the border fired on them.
2017-11-06
Crime has grown along with the increased Rohingya population, officials say.
2017-11-06
Beijing says the move is aimed at 'booing' and other protests like those recently staged by Hong Kong soccer fans.
2017-11-06
'All you'll wind up with is a dead body,' says Huang Qi, after repeated beatings by former officials-turned-inmates.
2017-11-06
More than 500 suspected ARSA insurgents are named but list has no further information.
2017-11-03
Cambodia's government has failed to protect the country's forests, and citizens must now do the work themselves, an environmental activist says.
2017-11-03
Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, says those who fled to Bangladesh during a military crackdown will still have no rights if they return to Myanmar.
2017-11-03
Many among Muslim refugee community from Myanmar believe that birth control is a sin.
2017-11-03
The violence comes a day after Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to the conflict-torn region.
2017-11-03
The move is aimed at Uyghur government workers who fail to uphold Chinese policies in the politically sensitive region.
2017-11-03
The calls come as U.S. President Donald Trump embarks on an 11-day visit to the Asia-Pacific region amid concerns he may soft-pedal on human rights.
2017-11-03
Sun Hongqin has been pursuing official complaints over nonpayment of her pension for the past 17 years.
2017-11-02
Almost 200 people have drowned since Aug. 25 in waters dividing Bangladesh and Myanmar.
2017-11-02
Htay Aung of the National Farmer’s Union went to meet village authorities and was attacked by more than 20 assailants.
2017-11-02
Abdurehim Heyit may have been arrested for performing a song previously cleared by Chinese censors but that has come under scrutiny during the harsh crackdown in Xinjiang.
2017-11-02
The state counselor discusses humanitarian work and stresses the need for people to live peacefully in the ethnically and religiously divided region.
2017-11-02
Lawyers are speaking out in the hope that the government will revise discriminatory recruitment practices based on the health status of applicants.
2017-11-02
They had cut down rubber trees on farmland given by the government to a Vietnamese company.
2017-11-02
Germany-based Springer Nature blocks access to some 1,000 articles in two of its journals to users in mainland China.
2017-11-01
Hoang Duc Binh could face 2-7 years in prison following arrest for leading environmental protests.
2017-11-01
About 100 refugees are caught daily trying to sneak into cities for work, official says.
2017-11-01
A government spokesman says Bangladesh disagrees with certain terms of a 1993 agreement allowing the return of those who can prove residence in Myanmar.
2017-11-01
Forty academics urge the Communist Party to free "Mother Mushroom" and another woman jailed for posting anti-state propaganda.
2017-11-01
Pyongyang dodges UN sanctions by declaring that coal and other goods come from Russia and China, sources say.
2017-11-01
Officials reverse an earlier order allowing the gathering to go ahead, citing concerns over crowds.
2017-11-01
Anyone working in news-related content must now submit to government training and controls in a further bid to rid China of unauthorized information.
2017-11-01
Ethnic Kazakhs are being detained for 're-education' on the strength of photos showing them with a Kazakhstan politician.
2017-10-31
Police outnumber protesters outside the court amid fears of a crackdown.
2017-10-31
Police say they are given blank verdict forms from the courts, which they fill in themselves.
