Story Archive
2019-08-23
The cards collect electronic data on the card-holders that can be used to monitor and punish behavior, Tibetan advocacy groups say.
2019-08-23
Protesters hold up placards in support of a bill that would require Washington to sanction officials who limit or abuse Hongkongers' rights and freedoms.
2019-08-23
A US biotech company is supplying testing equipment many fear will be used to support government surveillance operations.
2019-08-22
‘Nobody turned up’ at collection point for refugees in neighboring Bangladesh.
2019-08-22
China urges ethnic armies to stop fighting as conflict threatens stability in border areas.
2019-08-22
The Foreign Ministry calls the redeployment a ‘serious violation’ of Vietnam’s sovereignty.
2019-08-22
Serikzhan Bilash faced seven years in prison after highlighting Kazakhs in Xinjiang Camps.
2019-08-22
Huyn Dac Tuy had posted and shared writings criticizing Vietnam's government and ruling Communist Party, state media say.
2019-08-22
Rodrigo Duterte says he will raise arbitral ruling on sea dispute when he goes to Beijing next week.
2019-08-22
Major companies including flag-carrier Cathay Pacific are at the center of a 'political storm' as China targets staff who support the anti-extradition movement.
2019-08-22
Official and public tender documents show that the country's second-largest state news agency wants more than half a million new followers on each platform by next year.
2019-08-21
The Rohingya refugees ‘have every reason to fear for their safety if they return,’ says Human Rights Watch.
2019-08-21
Authorities meanwhile deny the problem exists, locking up those who complain in a local mental hospital.
2019-08-21
The killings in Lashio township follow a recent flare-up of violence in the long-running Shan state wars.
2019-08-21
Experts note that previous talks have yielded little and say neither side has changed its position.
2019-08-21
Sam Rainsy calls on soldiers to turn their weapons on their superiors and ‘revolt’ against dictatorship.
2019-08-21
Chiang Yung-hsin, 52, was indicted in January on charges of setting up the station without a permit for Sound of Hope, a San Francisco-based radio network that was founded by Falun Gong.
2019-08-21
The protesters want to highlight a lack of progress in pursuing attackers who left dozens of protesters and passers-by injured at Yuen Long station on July 21.
2019-08-21
Simon Cheng is being held for 15 days for allegedly breaking public order laws, a foreign ministry spokesman says.
2019-08-20
Bridge restored after fierce fighting in Shan state had disrupted a trade route to China.
2019-08-20
Ablikim Ghopur had been recognized for his contribution to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
2019-08-20
Manila issues warning ahead of President Rodrigo Duterte’s China visit.
2019-08-20
The undocumented laborers were traveling to a border town to renew their tourist visas.
2019-08-20
The accident in Luang Prabang province injured 31 other Chinese passengers.
2019-08-20
Facebook and Twitter shutter thousands of accounts and groups linked to a state-backed online disinformation campaign.
2019-08-20
Simon Cheng, investment director for the Scottish International Development Agency, has been incommunicado since trying to return to Hong Kong on Aug. 8.
2019-08-19
The group seeks larger turnout for future rallies over Beijing's South China Sea policies.
2019-08-19
Speaking in Australia, the CNRP leader calls on soldiers not to take up arms against returning Cambodians.
2019-08-19
Observers say the North may be exporting foods made with donated grains to raise hard currency.
2019-08-19
Almas Nizamidin spoke to his mother Zulpiye Jalalidin during her three-day leave from camps for the Eid holiday.
