Story Archive
2018-05-17
The prime minister began campaigning as early as December last year, despite a July 7-27 window.
2018-05-17
A lawyer for the defendants says he is interested in seeing who will take the stand and what they will say.
2018-05-17
Chromium and cyanide had been improperly handled and seeped into rivers used for drinking water in Kratie and Mondulkiri.
2018-05-17
Four parishioners say authorities have accused them of ‘illegally detaining other people’ and have notified one of them that they are prosecuting him.
2018-05-17
Dashar, a resident of Sershul county in Sichuan's Kardze prefecture, had been jailed for 10 years for his role in protests in Lhasa in 2008.
2018-05-17
A former Industrial and Commercial Bank of China staffer is held on public order charges for protesting a lack of redundancy benefits for former state bank employees.
2018-05-17
Some churches are banned from meeting while others are ordered to join a government-backed Protestant body.
2018-05-16
Lance Corporal Naing Lin denies handing over classified documents to Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone, who reject the testimony as wrong.
2018-05-16
The army uses an old defamation law to silence critics, amid mounting humanitarian concerns for thousands displaced by fighting.
2018-05-16
They are told not to visit monasteries or attend religious gatherings during the Buddhist holy month of Saga Dawa.
2018-05-16
The warning comes after the North calls off talks with South Korea over US-South joint exercises.
2018-05-16
Chinese authorities fear the spread of 'separatist' sentiment inspired by exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
2018-05-16
Journalism groups hit out at the ‘violent arrest’ of Now TV video journalist Chui Chun-ming, who has since been released following ‘mediation.’
2018-05-16
Xie Yanyi is taken away following an altercation with police over their treatment of journalists.
2018-05-15
Authorities claim they did not obtain official permission to hold demonstrations.
2018-05-15
Comfrel says several hundred members will observe general security but not monitor the July 29 vote.
2018-05-15
A representative says a Chinese mining firm is responsible for contaminating the water.
2018-05-15
District administrator Hlaing Soe says those who died were visiting the border town.
2018-05-15
An unknown number are killed or injured when a blaze blamed on faulty wiring sweeps through a workers' barracks.
2018-05-15
The near-assassination comes weeks after a local official threatened him with death.
2018-05-15
Nguyen Khac Thuy, a retired banker, sees a three-year prison term reduced to 18 months suspended.
2018-05-15
Hints at detente and denuclearization on the Korean peninsula fuel Chinese expectations of new trade and economic ties with the isolated state.
2018-05-15
Xu Lin is in police detention on public order charges for singing about late political prisoner Liu Xiaobo.
2018-05-14
The main opposition group, banned in late 2017, has called for a boycott of what is effectively a one-party race.
2018-05-14
The call by the Union-Level Committee CSOs for Peace Forum follows a crackdown on demonstrators in Yangon protesting against civil war in Kachin state.
2018-05-14
The statement comes as two former RFA reporters mark six months in detention on espionage charges.
2018-05-14
Twenty people die during an attack by an ethnic armed group on security posts and a casino in Muse.
2018-05-14
Cadres collect information on families and indoctrinate them during their ‘visits.’
2018-05-14
Already partially fenced for farming, the grazing land is now being taken for development, a local source says.
2018-05-14
Around 80 members of the church are detained when police raid a prayer service in Chengdu to commemorate the disaster.
