Story Archive
2020-07-10
A press freedom group highlights concerns for the health of several political prisoners as internet users are warned not to criticize the government.
2020-07-10
The workers were sent to Russia to earn foreign currency for Pyongyang, and are thought be trying to reach South Korea.
2020-07-10
China is likely to be wary of Gazprom's ambitious expansion plans.
2020-07-10
The raid comes as a top Hong Kong official warns that the primaries could run afoul of China's newly imposed security law.
2020-07-10
Wang Quanzhang files a legal complaint over his treatment at the hands of the authorities following his 'disappearance' in 2015.
2020-07-09
Rohingya were allowed to vote and contest in 2010 elections, but the right was taken from them several years later.
2020-07-09
Memetrusul Hesen describes years of seeking information about his family from exile in Kyrgyzstan.
2020-07-09
Myanmar’s newest war zone joins many parts of a country riddled with mines from decades of war.
2020-07-09
Residents say making scapegoats out of senior officials will not solve any problems with the country’s overwhelmed medical system.
2020-07-09
Police in the Riau Islands remove corpse of a sailor kept in cold storage for days.
2020-07-09
Rights groups had urged President Donald Trump to utilize the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act for weeks after it became law.
2020-07-09
Many worry that their homes will be unstable and will lack adequate water and electricity, though.
2020-07-09
Thousands of people get a pathway to permanent residency as the city faces growing numbers of political prosecutions and a loss of judicial independence.
2020-07-09
Authorities pledged severe punishment, but some brokers skated with relatively light “reeducation” sentences.
2020-07-09
A campaign group describes Chinese lawyers as 'dancers on the edge of a precipice.'
2020-07-09
Advocates for desperate miners say only systemic reform will stop tragic deaths.
2020-07-08
The rights group says a ‘relentless pattern of violations’ merits UN Security Council action.
2020-07-08
Although neither U.S., Australia nor Japan are South China Sea claimants, they appear to be taking a firmer stance and are making greater effort to show presence in the region.
2020-07-08
An expert says Beijing is increasingly desperate to stop him from exposing abuses in the region.
2020-07-08
Critics say his convicted killer is a ‘scapegoat’ and slammed the country’s culture of impunity.
2020-07-08
Rights groups say U.S. restrictions are a message to Beijing over reciprocity in access.
2020-07-08
Beijing has sent agents to issue threats to critics of the ruling party or their families living overseas, Christopher Wray says.
2020-07-08
Officials and police are gearing up to implement a slew of draconian bans on critical speech and protest songs, among other things.
2020-07-08
Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun, a sharp critic of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party, was taken away by police in Beijing July 6 after police in far away Sichuan province accused him of seeking prostitutes. Friends dismissed the vice allegations as a timeworn trick used by ruling party to sully the reputation of critics like Xu, who had just published a collection of his trenchant essays outside China.
2020-07-07
The jade-mining center of Hpakant is in a lawless conflict zone that has resisted supervision.
2020-07-07
Vanguard Bank was the focus of a tense, months-long standoff in 2019 between the Vietnamese and Chinese coastguards.
2020-07-07
Cries of newborn grandchild alerted patrolling soldiers to women hiding in a bomb shelter.
2020-07-07
Nguyen Duc Quoc Vuong took up a range of sensitive political topics in his live-streamed commentaries.
2020-07-07
A rights group says authorities should treat all illegal land grabbers equally before the law.
2020-07-07
After the start of the school year was postponed three times to June 1, schools are closing only one month later.
