Story Archive
2019-03-29
Committee also concerned about Hanoi’s excessive use of the death penalty
2019-03-29
He says Cambodia is ‘done taking orders’ from other countries in return for aid.
2019-03-29
Government army says civilians were caught in a fire fight, but its foe the Arakan Army says there was no battle at the time.
2019-03-29
Zulhumar Isaac’s parents were detained despite having served the Chinese government for decades.
2019-03-29
Veteran rights activist Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan had wanted to seek asylum in Canada.
2019-03-29
Numbers plummeted after sanctions, but recover as workers find ways to evade controls.
2019-03-29
At the time of his punishment, Tang Yun had been teaching a class about the revolutionary writer Lu Xun.
2019-03-29
Pang Zhiyong is the latest internet user to be targeted under draconian rules targeting those who evade government censorship.
2019-03-28
Wang Yu, a prominent human rights lawyer initially held in a July 2015 operation targeting the profession, is prevented from entering the US Embassy in Beijing.
2019-03-28
The rebel Ta’ang National Liberation Army says the government military initiated the attack.
2019-03-28
The meeting occurred a week after ex-officials filed a complaint with the ICC to protect fishing rights.
2019-03-28
Before being detained, Yang Zhengjun, Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing helped a group of migrant workers with a pneumoconiosis compensation claim.
2019-03-28
Philip Alston says improvements in the lives of the poorest have not kept pace with economic growth.
2019-03-28
Many were lured into battling the Bashar al-Assad regime with the promise of help fighting Chinese rule in Xinjiang.
2019-03-28
Shouwang Church, which previously had been prevented from using its indoor premises, had been meeting outdoors and at different venues in the city for study and worship.
2019-03-27
Various groups are trying to tally casualties from months of fighting between the Arakan Army and government troops.
2019-03-27
Human rights groups interview survivors duped into trafficking between 2012 and 2015 while fleeing Myanmar for Malaysia and Thailand.
2019-03-27
General Gwan Maw, vice chairman of the Kachin Independence Organization, discusses Myanmar’s peace talks and a controversial Chinese dam in his state.
2019-03-27
The military wrote the current constitution with provisions that guarantee its political dominance.
2019-03-27
Judge Ky Rithy says the court is still gathering evidence, more than a year after Kem Sokha’s arrest.
2019-03-27
Lu Wei pleaded guilty at his trial last year to taking tens of millions of yuan in bribes.
2019-03-27
Amnesty International says in a new report that human rights protections in the city deteriorated last year.
2019-03-26
Hao wrote his sister saying he ended the hunger strike on March 6, a day after a prison visit by his family.
2019-03-26
China dismisses the report as ‘full of bias,’ and an interference in its internal affairs.
2019-03-26
Most of the cases involved infrastructure development projects such as road construction and repairs throughout the country.
2019-03-26
As government funding runs out, food donations needed for 230 interned in Somsanga Support Center
2019-03-26
Beijing could take over Reed Bank if country fails to make payments, judge says.
2019-03-26
The decision could set the stage for freeing or reducing the sentences of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.
2019-03-26
He Fangmei is being held under criminal detention in Henan after her detention outside the National Health Commission last month.
2019-03-26
Oo Hla Saw, a national lawmaker and a leader of the Arakan National Party, discusses the myriad problems facing Myanmar’s beleaguered western state.
