Story Archive
2017-12-19
The Kazakhs are held under administrative detention for possessing material deemed to incite ethnic hatred and promote terrorism, officials say.
2017-12-18
Human Rights Watch reports that the Myanmar military is continuing to destroy Muslim homes in northern Rakhine state.
2017-12-18
Local authorities and police stand by during the attack, refusing to intervene.
2017-12-18
NLD spokesman Win Htein says it’s obvious that the charges against the Reuters journalists had been planned.
2017-12-18
A CNRP official says the tactic is meant to ‘defuse international pressure’ amid a political crackdown.
2017-12-18
Many patients are women and girls who were raped in Myanmar.
2017-12-18
Five refugees and a suspected human trafficker were detained, police say.
2017-12-18
Countries in region are committed to upholding U.N. Security Council resolutions, senior American diplomat says.
2017-12-18
Prison officials refuse to provide democracy advocate Tran Anh Kim with medical care until they hear from higher-ups.
2017-12-18
Government officials are sent to live in the homes of ethnic minority families for a week, as Uyghur police officers are subjected to additional security checks.
2017-12-18
Meanwhile, an France-based Chinese artist and his French wife are believed detained after exhibiting a painting in Shenzhen referencing late political prisoner Liu Xiaobo.
2017-12-15
The ceremony marks the fifth anniversary of the abduction of Sombath Somphone.
2017-12-15
He says he has no overseas assets to freeze and no intention of traveling to the US.
2017-12-15
Yangon police say that a ‘group of authorities’ took the Reuters journalists away from the Htauk Kyant Police Station.
2017-12-15
Move is seen as an effort to make it easier to import or smuggle goods from China as sanctions bite.
2017-12-15
Migrant workers in Shaanxi province fear that an official policy of getting rid of low-income groups may be spreading across the country from Beijing.
2017-12-15
A heartbreaking note penned by the widow of China's Nobel peace prize winner gives a window into her desperate state of mind.
2017-12-15
Observers welcome the move, which comes ahead of a planned trade agreement.
2017-12-15
Pro-democracy lawmakers, hit by the loss of six seats in recent months, will now be less able to monitor and question the workings of the administration, critics say.
2017-12-14
The CNRP president says he should be freed to help resolve the country’s ‘political crisis.’
2017-12-14
Activists and the leader of the country’s Catholic Church hit back against the Letpadaung copper mine and Myitsone dam.
2017-12-14
Many of the victims were shot and others were burned in their homes, MSF reports.
2017-12-14
They call on the government to immediate free two Reuters journalists arrested on Tuesday.
2017-12-14
More than 3,300 of Bullaqsu’s residents are jailed or in political re-education camps.
2017-12-14
The move further tightens Chinese authorities' restrictions at the once-sprawling Tibetan Buddhist study center.
2017-12-14
A letter calling on the city's party chief to resign over the mass eviction of low-income migrants from elsewhere in China is quickly expunged from social media sites.
2017-12-14
The Committee to Protect Journalists says many jailed journalists have been given 'a slow death sentence' through lack of adequate medical care.
2017-12-13
The campaign is a ‘gross violation’ of human rights, a watchdog says.
2017-12-13
Top American diplomat says US open “to talk anytime” North wants, but White House says time not ripe.
2017-12-13
Win Myat Aye says the government is prepared to accept those who want to return to northern Rakhine state.
