Story Archive
2018-01-31
They had sent video clips criticizing Vietnam's Communist Party and government to Facebook and YouTube.
2018-01-31
The suspects are members of Cambodia’s border forces seen as backing the loggers.
2018-01-31
Ngawang Tsomo was subjected to torture and poor conditions during her seven-year sentence.
2018-01-31
Authorities are setting up Russian-made radio locators along the border with China.
2018-01-31
His appearance in the capital will mark the first time a hearing has been held for him away from the remote prison where he has been held until now.
2018-01-31
A chorus of concern and criticism has greeted the barring of a would-be pro-democracy election candidate, Agnes Chow, from running in legislative elections.
2018-01-31
A developer known only by her online nickname, 'Broken Doll,' stops work on her circumvention tool after threats from a murky online community.
2018-01-31
The country’s telecoms regulator says anyone needing ‘a dedicated line’ or service to scale the Great Firewall can lease one from the government.
2018-01-30
A Kazakh national recalls seven months in detention in Xinjiang for alleged ‘terrorist activities.’
2018-01-30
The Kachin Independence Army believes that the military has stepped up its assaults to force the group to sign a key peace pact.
2018-01-30
Lodroe Gyatso is believed to have shouted political slogans in front of Lhasa's Potala Palace, sources say.
2018-01-30
The students are demanding increases in the country’s underfunded education budget.
2018-01-30
Statement appears to support defense claims that the two Southeast Asian women were duped into believing they were performing for a TV show.
2018-01-30
As Vietnamese dissident lawyer Nguyen Van Dai enters his third year of pretrial detention, his wife voices fears for his health.
2018-01-30
State security police are 'very interested' in the activities of pro-democracy groups and other exiles critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2018-01-30
Veteran Chinese democracy activist Zhang Lin recently arrived in the U.S., several years after he first planned to leave China to escape continual pressure from authorities.
2018-01-29
Muhammad Salih Hajim, 82, had been detained about 40 days before his death.
2018-01-29
ARSA insurgents took a camp leader and his brother, according to an eyewitness.
2018-01-29
Soldiers clash again with the Kachin Independence Army in Tanaing township.
2018-01-29
He says the movement’s main objective is to ensure free and fair elections in July.
2018-01-29
Many vow not to return if they must promise not to protest in the future.
2018-01-29
Agnes Chow says the rejection of her nomination means the ‘political obliteration’ of an entire generation in the city.
2018-01-29
Yu Wensheng could face pressure to ‘confess’ to the charge while in custody, his lawyer warns.
2018-01-26
Dim Kundy and Hun Vannak will be released in weeks, getting credit for time served.
2018-01-26
Residents say the offer is low based on compensation for land in similar development projects.
2018-01-26
A team of local lawmakers will investigate the killings of ethnic Rakhines during a police crackdown.
2018-01-26
The conference is a further bid by Tibetans to protect their culture.
2018-01-26
‘Overflow’ led authorities to truck as many as 640 inmates to alternate camps, a source said.
2018-01-26
Zhang Lin, father of Zhang Anni, served a three-year jail term for protesting his daughter's exclusion from school.
2018-01-26
State broadcasters are banned from booking artists who sport tattoos, espouse a homegrown form of emo culture, or who aren't aligned with the ruling party.
