Story Archive
2017-06-30
State lawmakers call for more security in villages surrounding Maungdaw town to prevent further attacks.
2017-06-30
At least 140 North Koreans who worked in Sarawak state have been deported.
2017-06-30
Meanwhile, journalists enlist civil society in a campaign to repeal the law he is charged under.
2017-06-30
Protesters say President Xi is being kept in a bubble, where he won't be able to see any protests or hear any dissenting voices.
2017-06-30
News about the political prisoner is being tightly controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2017-06-29
Rights groups have slammed the harsh sentences handed down for Facebook posts criticizing the Lao government.
2017-06-29
The foreign ministry orders embassies not to grant entry visas for the UN mission charged with investigating army atrocities following the October 2016 attacks by militants.
2017-06-29
A court investigation ends after 427 days and their case will proceed to trial.
2017-06-29
More than 60 domestic and international organizations want the government to abolish Article 66(d) or decriminalize defamation.
2017-06-29
Seng Viyaketh denies that the timber, held after the 27 trucks carrying it to Vietnam were inspected at the border, belongs to her.
2017-06-29
Activist Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh is convicted for ‘spreading propaganda against the state.’
2017-06-29
They are assaulted when they resist the removal of a cross they say was set up on land belonging to their church.
2017-06-29
As Xi begins a trip marking two decades under Chinese rule, protests are planned on Saturday's anniversary of the 1997 handover.
2017-06-29
Residents of the regional capital must hand over all digital devices by the end of July as part of an ‘anti-terror’ operation.
2017-06-28
He asks for new legislation banning all political activity by former CNRP president Sam Rainsy.
2017-06-28
The three reporters will go on trial on July 10 for covering an event organized by an ethnic militia.
2017-06-28
High school and older students now irrigate crops for hours each morning before school begins.
2017-06-28
The protesters, who include Occupy Central leaders Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, call for the immediate release of Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and full democracy for Hong Kong.
2017-06-28
Bao Tong, former aide to late ousted premier Zhao Ziyang, says the government withheld Liu's diagnosis 'deliberately' until his cancer was inoperable.
2017-06-27
The group says police are intimidating them after they called for the release of a fellow monk.
2017-06-27
The reporters are being detained for ‘having connections’ to an ethnic armed group considered by the state to be a terrorist organization.
2017-06-27
State parliament speaker calls on lawmakers and the Rakhine government to work together to ensure the area’s safety.
2017-06-27
The US cites China’s complicity in North Korean forced labor as a reason for its downgrade.
2017-06-27
Former negotiator with North Korea says gestures to Pyongyang to 'improve the atmosphere' could cause the U.S. and its allies to lose sight of their goal.
2017-06-27
Bo has been granted medical parole following a diagnosis at a fairly early stage, in a chilling contrast with the treatment meted out to Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.
2017-06-27
Activists say the authorities must have been aware of Liu Xiaobo's illness much earlier than they claim.
2017-06-27
Su is said to be pale and in 'very, very poor health' when she receives the first visit from her husband in nearly three years.
2017-06-26
Rizwangul Tursun was returned to China after trying to travel to Turkey to join her family in exile.
2017-06-26
Police fire on migrant workers after they beat security officers and destroy machinery at the Wakyae jade mine.
2017-06-26
The CNRP applauds modest improvements, but says several factors negatively affected the polls.
