Story Archive
2018-08-31
Large numbers of security troops check pilgrims, patrol the city, the man says following his first visit to the capital.
2018-08-31
Meanwhile, authorities in a nearby county are specifically targeting state employees for detention.
2018-08-31
The panel’s four members meet with Rakhines, Muslims, Hindus, and Mro in the multiethnic state.
2018-08-31
Hundreds may not open in time for the start of the school year on Sept. 3, Lao sources say.
2018-08-31
The democracy advocate is protesting police pressure to plead guilty in exchange for amnesty.
2018-08-31
Authorities profit from the trade in mushrooms meant to raise funds for Pyongyang, sources say.
2018-08-31
James Ricketson was accused of spying after flying a drone over an opposition rally a year ago.
2018-08-31
Jilin University announces a "buddy" system in which applicants are required to be politically educated in the ruling party's official view.
2018-08-30
Married couple Yang Chong and Wu Yuhua were involved in a press freedom protest, and had supported disappeared rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
2018-08-30
Monsoon rains continue to inundate the northern and central parts of the country.
2018-08-30
Assistance has been largely cut off to tens of thousands of IDPs for more than seven years.
2018-08-30
The collapse of the Swar dam spillway due to heavy rain triggered massive flooding that submerged 82 villages.
2018-08-30
Activists say it is unacceptable for the company to be collaborating with the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2018-08-30
Yan Lianke said foreign leaders seem far more concerned with economic ties than holding the ruling Chinese Communist Party to account.
2018-08-29
The move violatesUN sanctions on the export of seafood for badly needed foreign cash.
2018-08-29
Myanmar officials had proposed humanitarian organizations take over relief efforts.
2018-08-29
He dismisses rumors that the head of the now-dissolved CNRP could be freed after a hearing this week.
2018-08-29
The collapse of the Swar dam spillway in Bago region floods about 60 villages, forcing residents to seek shelter in monasteries and temporary camps.
2018-08-29
US says pending State Department report on Rohingya crisis "consistent" with damning survey by U.N. investigators
2018-08-29
They say ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the region are facing a ‘human rights crisis.’
2018-08-29
Phijika Boonkwang, the country's first female team president, had criticized the condition of a road leading to a playing field.
2018-08-29
A new set of disciplinary rules also threatens party members who don't 'consciously support' President Xi Jinping.
2018-08-29
The move is part of a nationwide campaign by the ruling Chinese Communist Party for the 'patriotic education' of religious believers.
2018-08-28
Tran Huynh Duy Thuc is now entering the third week of his strike and is growing weak, his brother says.
2018-08-28
They are freed under a royal pardon requested by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who rejects suggestions of foreign pressure to free his critics.
2018-08-28
Isolating the country’s most powerful institution could have harmful results, the government says.
2018-08-28
At the same time, the state propaganda machine is mobilized to blame 'overseas organizations' for fomenting the labor movement in Shenzhen.
2018-08-28
The move comes as the government points to 'dangers ... in other places,' in an apparent reference to neighboring Hong Kong.
2018-08-27
State security police detained and interrogated members of Demosisto on trips to mainland China in March and August this year.
2018-08-27
Hoan Tuan Long died Aug. 24 showing signs of severe physical injuries, his wife says.
