Story Archive
2019-07-10
Sources close to Ji Sizun's family say there are suspicions around his death, which came after the authorities pressured his family into signing away their right to his remains.
2019-07-09
They call the flawed trial of his killer part of a cover-up to protect those who orchestrated his death.
2019-07-09
A military spokesman denied villagers’ accounts of a roundup and search for Arakan Army fighters.
2019-07-09
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has ensured that attorneys specializing in human rights cases are now very hard to find.
2019-07-09
Corpses of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il’s are preserved and on full display at a yearly cost of $400,000.
2019-07-09
Student leaders say they won't take part in dialogue until all of protesters' demands are met.
2019-07-09
Sheikh Hasina rejects U.S. lawmaker’s proposal for Dhaka to annex Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
2019-07-08
The publisher discussed Hong Kong, human rights, China and Taiwan, said an aide to Lai.
2019-07-08
Villagers stage protests against two different development projects, one with a Cambodian developer and the other backed by a Chinese company.
2019-07-08
The first use of the law on an ethnic army is seen as complicating a fragile peace process.
2019-07-08
Democracy advocate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc had been kept around the clock in his cell in sweltering heat, family members say.
2019-07-08
Officials say Chinese minders bring alcohol and pork, and expect every household member to partake.
2019-07-08
Weakness in the power sector signals trouble in the economy.
2019-07-08
Official media says recent Google imagery of apparent buckling in the dam’s structure is suspect, while a former project engineer says faults do exist.
2019-07-08
Around half a million people take to the streets once more in protest at plans to allow extradition to mainland China.
2019-07-05
Experts believe the July 5, 2009 violence marked a turning point leading to today’s mass internment camps.
2019-07-05
Penpa Tsering, who shares a name with a former speaker of Tibet's exile parliament, is detained for six hours and then sent home.
2019-07-05
Scorched-earth tactics were a central feature of the army’s expulsion of 750,000 Rohingya in 2017.
2019-07-05
But the PM also pleaded at WTO event for EBA scheme to continue in Cambodia.
2019-07-04
Police beat protesters and detain at least 20 people in a crackdown on the two-day protest.
2019-07-04
One student union says the administration of chief executive Carrie Lam must first withdraw plans to allow the rendition of alleged suspects to mainland China.
2019-07-03
Manila had “no first-hand knowledge” of missile activity, says Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana.
2019-07-03
Bereaved family members say their son had been tortured during interrogations about his connections to the Arakan Army.
2019-07-03
Farmers, fishermen lose crops and catches as water levels swell as high as 3.7 meters.
2019-07-03
Xie Yanyi and Yuan Shanshan were told they couldn't renew their lease, and currently have nowhere to live.
2019-07-03
The business of cultivating bananas in Laos for the Chinese market–widely discredited because of the impact of the excessive use of chemicals on the environment and health–is alive and kicking.
2019-07-03
The 29-member alliance does not have a uniform policy on the Chinese telecom giant.
2019-07-03
Citizens say the ‘Highest Dignity’ seemed too eager to meet with Trump, question Kim’s diplomatic abilities.
2019-07-03
Pro-democracy politicians say the government shouldn't use the law to resolve a political conflict that it started.
2019-07-02
Zaw Win Hlaing’s family members say he was severely beaten and tortured while in custody.
