Story Archive
2019-09-04
Pro-democracy politicians, activists, and top businesspeople with links to China say Carrie Lam has acted far too late to resolve the anti-extradition crisis.
2019-09-04
Land-rights activist known as Billy disappeared a day before he was to testify against parks chief.
2019-09-03
Government troops launch aerial attacks on Northern Alliance targets.
2019-09-03
Use of the National Verification Cards signals acceptance of unwanted status as 'foreigners,' Rohingya say.
2019-09-03
Mobile phone providers also told to stop selling SIM cards to refugees, official says.
2019-09-03
He vows not to treat them as ‘shields,’ and calls for them to refrain from violent protests in his name.
2019-09-03
The new badge replaces older Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il double portrait badges, causing some to speculate a political shift could be underway.
2019-09-03
The strike comes amid growing public criticism of the city's police force, who were filmed chasing down high-schoolers and beating up random passers-by in recent days.
2019-09-03
Hong Kong Activist Agnes Chow Wins Appeal Overturning Election Ban.
2019-09-02
Students rally on the campus of one university, while tens of thousands of workers begin a two-day general strike across dozens of sectors.
2019-09-02
Huang is found guilty of 'picking quarrels and stirring up trouble' on the basis of interviews with foreign media organizations and activist websites.
2019-09-01
Police deploy water cannon and attack a subway train, while protesters shut down a key subway station following protests at the airport.
2019-08-30
Kadir Memet is thought to have been arrested in recent months, despite his loyalty to the government.
2019-08-30
The presiding judge was absent to attend a justice ministry workshop, without informing the defendants in advance.
2019-08-30
Sombath Somphone, who fought against government land deals, disappeared in December 2012.
2019-08-30
Reports from Tibetan graduates seeking work conflict with accounts in state-controlled media.
2019-08-30
Villagers say they were underpaid for their land when the project began.
2019-08-30
President Rodrigo Duterte raised the issue “in a friendly, assertive and unequivocal manner.”
2019-08-30
Lee Meng-chu has been incommunicado for 10 days after sharing photos relating to the anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong.
2019-08-30
Wong and fellow activist Agnes Chow are released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of taking part in an 'unauthorized assembly' on June 21 outside police headquarters.
2019-08-29
The verdict was delayed because the presiding judge had to attend a meeting at the ministry of justice, the reporters' lawyer says.
2019-08-29
Proposal comes a week after collapse of second attempt to return thousands of refugees to Myanmar.
2019-08-29
HRW says Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi should never have been arrested.
2019-08-29
Olsi Jazexhi said he learned that mass incarcerations are part of a bid to assimilate Uyghurs in the region.
2019-08-29
A woman whose eye injury made world headlines has hit out at Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam for 'conniving' to allow police brutality.
2019-08-29
Tsai Ing-wen's PhD from the London School of Economics is well attested, and yet the fake news persists ahead of an election campaign
2019-08-29
Truong Duy Nhat finally sees an attorney seven months after his abduction in Thailand and forced return to Vietnam.
2019-08-29
The meeting in Shan state’s Kengtung comes amid intensified fighting in major conflict areas.
2019-08-29
Defense plans to appeal to Thailand’s king to prevent execution.
2019-08-29
The authorities are apparently running out of ideas about how to end a leaderless movement that keeps slipping through their fingers.
