Story Archive
2019-05-31
Sources say the campaign is an excuse to crack down on Tibetans in the region.
2019-05-31
Union leader and translator Rath Rott Mony’s fate postponed to mid-June.
2019-05-31
Witnesses reject the army’s account of the May 2 shooting of detained villagers in Kyauktan village.
2019-05-31
The Ministry of Home Affairs is ordered to prosecute Wirathu after a warrant is issued for his arrest.
2019-05-31
A new book is published with apparently leaked documents showing the ruling Chinese Communist Party leadership rallying around then supreme leader Deng Xiaoping after the Tiananmen massacre.
2019-05-31
Merchants and traders try to import “U.N. medicine” from China.
2019-05-31
Three decades after the People's Liberation Army put an end to peaceful protests with guns and tanks, former journalist Jiang Lin recalls the bloody scenes that unfolded on the night of June 4, 1989.
2019-05-31
Critics warn that recent government changes to a controversial extradition bill do nothing to allay human rights concerns.
2019-05-30
US delegates to an annual human rights dialogue with Vietnam point to a rising number of prosecutions over the last two years.
2019-05-30
Hundreds rally to support the monk, notorious for anti-Muslim hate speech.
2019-05-30
As South Korean builder denies responsibility, South Korean civil organization calls IEP report’s accuracy into question.
2019-05-30
One analyst says the decision could harm the Myanmar Army’s already poor international reputation.
2019-05-30
Thirty years after the Tiananmen massacre, little has been written of the ordinary Beijing residents who tried to hold off the incoming People's Liberation Army troops.
2019-05-30
Cambodians have dogged Hun Sen with protests while he attends a regional conference in Tokyo.
2019-05-30
Train passengers going to or from drug hub city of Hamhung must be prepared for excessive inspections.
2019-05-30
Troops were escorting aid workers from other countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar, who escaped unhurt.
2019-05-30
Shen Liangqing's family say they are very worried about his health, as he is highly unlikely to cave in to demands for a "confession."
2019-05-29
Meanwhile, Vietnamese police arrest a Catholic schoolteacher on unknown charges, taking him into custody while he was eating breakfast with his son.
2019-05-29
State Department says “human rights abuses in Xinjiang must end and they must end now.”
2019-05-29
The campaign in Sichuan's Kardze prefecture is now reaching formerly inaccessible rural areas, a Tibetan source says.
2019-05-29
Two years after it drove Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh, the military is blamed for atrocities against ethnic Rakhines.
2019-05-29
The wife of one of the men says the arrest is politically motivated and demands his release.
2019-05-29
Land cleared to compensate PNPC victims will be the site of a 2,000 ha. Chinese-owned banana plantation.
2019-05-29
Top judges speak out anonymously, saying they will be put in an impossible position if the plan becomes law.
2019-05-29
Artist Zhang Yue says he is 'embarrassed' to be standing so near the site of the 1989 protests without having succeeded in defending freedom of expression.
2019-05-28
New UN report shows that North Korea’s market economy is designed for officials to extort the people.
2019-05-28
North Korean agents in China to catch defectors allegedly smuggled drugs when they entered the country.
2019-05-28
A local witness says there are dozens more illegal Chinese banana plantation workers in the area.
2019-05-28
Meanwhile, Lao authorities say they are investigating assets held by the rural development advocate, who disappeared at a police checkpoint in 2012.
2019-05-28
The Lao government confirms reports that experts blamed substandard construction for the disaster.
