Story Archive
2019-08-30
Kadir Memet is thought to have been arrested in recent months, despite his loyalty to the government.
2019-08-30
The presiding judge was absent to attend a justice ministry workshop, without informing the defendants in advance.
2019-08-30
Sombath Somphone, who fought against government land deals, disappeared in December 2012.
2019-08-30
Reports from Tibetan graduates seeking work conflict with accounts in state-controlled media.
2019-08-30
Villagers say they were underpaid for their land when the project began.
2019-08-30
President Rodrigo Duterte raised the issue “in a friendly, assertive and unequivocal manner.”
2019-08-30
Lee Meng-chu has been incommunicado for 10 days after sharing photos relating to the anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong.
2019-08-30
Wong and fellow activist Agnes Chow are released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of taking part in an 'unauthorized assembly' on June 21 outside police headquarters.
2019-08-29
The verdict was delayed because the presiding judge had to attend a meeting at the ministry of justice, the reporters' lawyer says.
2019-08-29
Proposal comes a week after collapse of second attempt to return thousands of refugees to Myanmar.
2019-08-29
HRW says Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi should never have been arrested.
2019-08-29
Olsi Jazexhi said he learned that mass incarcerations are part of a bid to assimilate Uyghurs in the region.
2019-08-29
A woman whose eye injury made world headlines has hit out at Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam for 'conniving' to allow police brutality.
2019-08-29
Tsai Ing-wen's PhD from the London School of Economics is well attested, and yet the fake news persists ahead of an election campaign
2019-08-29
Truong Duy Nhat finally sees an attorney seven months after his abduction in Thailand and forced return to Vietnam.
2019-08-29
The meeting in Shan state’s Kengtung comes amid intensified fighting in major conflict areas.
2019-08-29
Defense plans to appeal to Thailand’s king to prevent execution.
2019-08-29
The authorities are apparently running out of ideas about how to end a leaderless movement that keeps slipping through their fingers.
2019-08-28
Waste may have leaked from a pipeline into a river that flows into the Yellow Sea.
2019-08-28
Disputes should be resolved through peaceful means, Prime Ministers Mahathir Mohamad and Nguyen Xuan Phuc say.
2019-08-28
A vast expanse of grass is all that remains of half the complex in Sichuan.
2019-08-28
Adhoc’s Soeng Senkaruna says the Chinese community is lawless and causing ‘anarchy’ in his country.
2019-08-28
Rev. Hkalam Samson had appealed to Trump to take action against religious persecution in Myanmar.
2019-08-28
Local police are investigating the incident to make sure the mine was operating according to law.
2019-08-28
Beijing’s letter to UN member states is its latest attack on the World Uyghur Congress and its leader, Dolkun Isa.
2019-08-28
Apology was contained in a memorandum released by the Philippine government.
2019-08-28
Rights group expresses concern over promises made by Laos during similar bilateral dialogue with Canberra.
2019-08-28
Protesters come out in support of victims of sexual assault in police custody and the politicized sacking of airline employees sympathetic to the protests.
2019-08-28
The Unirule Economic Research Institute is shut down, following police raids on its office last year.
2019-08-27
Troops from both countries will withdraw from the disputed area by Aug. 29, a Lao military website says.
