Story Archive
2017-06-20
Scholars and social activists in Kazakhstan call on their government to put pressure on Beijing to allow Kazakhs to move freely across the shared border.
2017-06-20
Attempts to reform the system with a new law are unlikely to succeed under the current system, where existing laws are routinely flouted, they say.
2017-06-19
Prison authorities offer conflicting accounts of who treated Ny Sokha for his illness after his collapse.
2017-06-19
The high-level managers of foreign currency-generating enterprises are selling the illegal products to officers in the Korean Workers’ Party.
2017-06-19
They claim the accounts are illegal and tied to funds from drug dealing and gambling.
2017-06-19
Doctors tell him no trace is left of a 'small sign' of prostate cancer they had previously identified.
2017-06-19
Local government officials have fenced off the surrounding area, denying access to ethnic Mongolian herders.
2017-06-19
State security police detain 'a whole minibus' of Kazakh Muslims on June 10, citing connections with the Turkic-speaking Uyghurs.
2017-06-16
Defense attorney expresses disappointment that CCTV video of crime was not included.
2017-06-16
‘British Ko Ko Maung’ is let go, while his editor remains in jail awaiting trial on defamation charges.
2017-06-16
Hostilities rage between the Myanmar military and Kachin Independence Army the day after the deadline for a civilian evacuation order.
2017-06-16
Eight are reported dead and 65 injured as police clear the area following a suicide blast that left eight dead and more than 60 injured.
2017-06-16
The family issued a statement strongly criticizing the forced appointment of government lawyers for Jiang Tianyong, who faces subversion charges in the northern city of Tianjin.
2017-06-16
Report to parliament in Dhaka comes after Indonesia-based think-tank reveals existence of new insurgent group.
2017-06-15
Authorities also lay heavier charges against citizen journalist Nguyen Van Hoa over his Formosa protest videos.
2017-06-15
International Uyghur Language Day, launched in 2015, urges Uyghurs around the world to speak their native language.
2017-06-15
Hun Sen dares Sam Rainsy to return to the Southeast Asian country and risk imprisonment.
2017-06-15
They have been told to return to the grazing lands from which they were earlier removed, sources say.
2017-06-15
But he defends his right to keep the photo, citing his 'absolute reverence' for the exiled spiritual leader.
2017-06-15
A village administrator says the three insulted him in a Facebook post.
2017-06-15
Police in the troubled region say the man's death was a suicide, claiming that he hanged himself following his detention last week.
2017-06-15
Traders are simply posting phone numbers to work around a loosely enforced verbal ban ahead of the controversial dog-meat festival, local people say.
2017-06-14
A legal expert suggests the country is rife with similar scams due to lax oversight.
2017-06-14
Police Inspector-General would not confirm Japanese newspaper report that amount was $120,000.
2017-06-14
The ruling party dares the former opposition chief to come home and face a conviction.
2017-06-14
Leader Kim Jong Un wants to ‘root out Chinese-manufactured cell phone users’ who have connections to the country’s mortal enemy South Korea.
2017-06-14
New hostilities force workers from the Tanaing gold and amber mining region to return to their hometowns in other parts of the country.
2017-06-14
Reports that Wu Xiaohui is assisting a government investigation come from a publication backed by the top ruling Chinese Communist Party graft-buster.
2017-06-14
An exile group cites reports of more than 100 punishments handed down to ethnic minority Uyghurs in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
2017-06-14
His existing defense team say the government has no right to terminate their instructions, and that they will continue to fight to be allowed to represent him.
