Story Archive
2020-05-05
China is seen by neighbors as taking advantage of their preoccupation with the COVID-19 pandemic to press its sweeping South China Sea claims.
2020-05-05
Cambodians living in Australia meanwhile call for targeted sanctions against Cambodian officials responsible for human rights violations.
2020-05-05
The plan to hold the vote in November, as in 2010 and 2015, is questioned by those who fear that the COVID-19 pandemic will persist.
2020-05-05
Offenses include speaking ill of the government in public talk, writings, images, and posters.
2020-05-05
China's border with Laos meanwhile remains closed to others amid fears the coronavirus may spread to Laos from its more-infected neighbor.
2020-05-05
Gulzire Taschmamat describes hearing from her sister for the first time since her detention in 2017.
2020-05-05
Jimmy Lai is ordered not to leave Hong Kong pending trials and court hearings for charges linked to last year's pro-democracy protests.
2020-05-05
Drew Pavlou has been accused of breaking university rules after being called a 'separatist' by China.
2020-05-04
Experts say Kim’s reappearance and on gunfire exchanges at DMZ, should serve as a wake up call.
2020-05-04
"They have no right and moral ascendancy to declare a fishing ban in the guise of conserving fish stocks in marine waters that they have no any legal claim," said Fernando Hicap.
2020-05-04
Laos backs away from a promise to allow workers to return, fearing coronavirus infections from Thailand and China.
2020-05-04
Critics say the initiative is only to present the country in a good light ahead of ICJ hearings.
2020-05-04
Matt Pottinger says the heirs of a 1919 protest movement are today’s oppressed whistleblowers, lawyers and rights activists.
2020-05-04
The raid comes after the church resisted pressure from the authorities to join a state-approved association of Protestant churches.
2020-05-04
Tsering Bakdro, a monk at Ganden monastery, had served eight years in Lhasa's Drapchi Prison for protesting China's rule in Tibet.
2020-05-04
Chen Zhaozhi's detention comes amid a nationwide backlash against dissenting voices on Beijing's handling of the coronavirus.
2020-05-02
World Press Freedom Day brings calls for release of jailed Uyghur writers, journalists.
2020-05-01
China is one of the worst sources of illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing in the region.
2020-05-01
Report of factory visit after three-week absence comes as rumors about Kim’s health seep into the North.
2020-05-01
Observers say reporters face greater risk of prosecution and are being forced to self-censor.
2020-05-01
‘We are now doing our best to get the construction work done to provide shelter for the IDPs before the monsoon hits,” says lawmaker Khin Saw Wai.
2020-05-01
Tens of thousands of workers return to economies that couldn’t support them even before the coronavirus outbreak.
2020-05-01
HRW’s Sophie Richardson says the law is 'wildly and grossly in tension' with China’s constitution and its obligations under international law.
2020-05-01
'It’s much more dangerous [for Tibetans] to speak to foreign journalists … than it is for other Chinese people, says Freedom House's Sarah Cook.
2020-05-01
Police also detain the deputy chairman of Hong Kong's Labour Party for trying to deliver a petition to government headquarters.
2020-05-01
An expert on Uyghur history calls the move ‘part of a larger cultural cleansing campaign’ in the region.
2020-05-01
The cost of supplies from Russia's new Power of Siberia pipeline may be more than double the prices charged in European markets.
2020-05-01
Amnesty International says that even Li Qiaochu's lawyer hasn't been told what she is being charged with.
2020-05-01
Chen Jieren is found guilty of a slew of offenses after he used social media to publish cutting-edge commentary and reportage.
2020-04-30
Repressive, vague laws wielded by an aggressive army belie lofty promises in the democratizing former military dictatorship.
