Story Archive
2020-08-21
China has confiscated fishing gear from Philippine boats operating in their own waters and has improperly 'challenged' Philippine planes patrolling the region, Manila says.
2020-08-21
Xaysana Keopimpha was found guilty of smuggling millions of pills of methamphetamine into Thailand.
2020-08-21
A new 'public opinion research' organization is traced back to the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2020-08-21
Fellow lawyer Wang Yu says his incommunicado detention for three years has sparked growing fears of torture.
2020-08-21
A campaign group says the authorities are targeting Liberal Studies, which has been blamed for recent waves of mass protest.
2020-08-21
“I cannot find any jobs in my hometown, so I regret that I came home,” said a young Lao woman.
2020-08-20
The increased border security aims at stopping illegal crossings and smuggling.
2020-08-20
Clothing makers say they may be lured away by neighboring countries’ moves toward green energy.
2020-08-20
'China holds all the cards. It has the dams upriver and it hosts the meeting,' says scholar Sophal Ear.
2020-08-20
At least 16 Indonesians have died while working under harsh and strenuous conditions aboard Chinese boats, according to reports.
2020-08-20
Large numbers of Chinese tourists and workers meanwhile enter Lhasa without restrictions, sources say.
2020-08-20
As part of China’s military build-up over the past two decades, it has rapidly improved its submarine force, and now has about 70 submarines.
2020-08-20
A work center staffer confirms that a new jobs plan will relocate mostly internees to construction jobs.
2020-08-20
Jaya Pathak discusses why the international community needs to help the Uyghurs and how to do so.
2020-08-20
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has ordered local governments to begin a nationwide crackdown on food waste.
2020-08-20
Online students in China and the loved ones of overseas activists are vulnerable to reprisals from police back home.
2020-08-19
The women were driven to the sex trade under the burden of heavy school fees, sources say.
2020-08-19
Ethnic groups say lack of equality and human rights fuel conflicts that go back to 1948.
2020-08-19
Myanmar's military is arresting more civilians as fighting continues in the region.
2020-08-19
The move comes after the USbans Chinese-owned TikTok, and amid growing military tension with China.
2020-08-19
The move comes as chief executive Carrie Lam says the national security law will be a 'turning point' for education in the city.
2020-08-18
Residents fear that new Central Emergency Quarantine Headquarters will exert more control over them.
2020-08-18
The arrests come two days after the Malaysian coast guard shot and killed a Vietnamese fisherman whose boat allegedly attacked the Malaysian ship.
2020-08-18
Eng Chhay Eang says the prime minister is politicizing the dispute to crackdown on dissent.
2020-08-18
The rules promote unfair and nontransparent practices, the vice chairman of the People’s Party says.
2020-08-18
Dolkar was tortured while serving 15 months in prison for spreading news of a protest by her nephew.
2020-08-18
"All my friends are telling me, 'Do not come back. If you come back to Beijing, you will be put in jail,'" says retired Central Party School professor Cai Xia.
2020-08-18
Compensation payments are 'too low' say villagers who remain stranded in their homes without land to farm.
2020-08-18
The group was made to delete photos and turn T-shirts with images of missing relatives inside-out.
2020-08-18
Cai Xia, was accused by the Central Party School of serious violations of Party discipline and expelled from the Party.
