Story Archive
2020-10-29
Communist Party-anointed Buddhist leader has not won acceptance in Tibet despite decades of efforts.
2020-10-29
In a speech focused on religious freedom, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on Islamic countries to speak out against China's persecution of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
2020-10-29
Villagers facing displacement say they fear they will be inadequately compensated.
2020-10-29
Reports emerge on social media that the authorities in China are building a concrete wall along the Sino-Vietnamese border to stop people leaving.
2020-10-29
Chung is denied bail over charges that rights groups say are based on his peaceful use of social media.
2020-10-28
Michael Nguyen said he endured 16-hour interrogations, a sham trial, and only learned of his release at the airport.
2020-10-28
The hired relief boat operator died and two other men were injured as they carried food to Rakhine war refugees.
2020-10-28
British activist Andy Hall said that Thailand's Natural Fruit Co. had abused some of its migrant workers, many of them from Myanmar.
2020-10-28
Lao citizens remain unable to leave their country, though, as its border with Thailand opens to goods shipments only.
2020-10-28
Human Rights Watch, local groups, say the Union Election Commission has acted without transparency.
2020-10-28
The family of an exiled opposition official was threatened, and several activists have been detained.
2020-10-28
Nothing has been heard about the three men believed to have been sent back to China in September amid fears they may have been harshly treated or killed on their return.
2020-10-28
Thousands of homes are flooded, damaged, or destroyed, as authorities close schools, beaches, and airports across central coastal provinces.
2020-10-28
Residents of central Vietnam are surveying the damage and cleaning up debris after Typhoon Molave smashed coastal regions Wednesday, leaving at least 3 dead, and 26 missing. Quang Ngai and Quang Nam provinces suffered the brunt of the latest deadly storm in a month of extreme weather events that have claimed nearly 150 lives in the Southeast Asian country.
2020-10-28
The authorities are using verbal pressure to force lawyers to stop representing detained activists who fled Hong Kong by speedboat.
2020-10-28
The student union says it is disappointed at the appointment of two Tsinghua University academics to vice president jobs.
2020-10-27
Rushed work by untrained troops caused two explosions in the country’s northeast.
2020-10-27
PPE is imported from China and polling stations are added as country of 54 million faces surge in pandemic.
2020-10-27
Forced resettlement schemes and military-style 'vocational training' have uprooted thousands from traditional livelihoods, taking them far from their homes, experts say.
2020-10-27
The ruling means the investigation will continue, nearly three years after the pair were arrested.
2020-10-27
The designation would allow Washington to coordinate an international effort to intervene.
2020-10-27
Chung was taken away from the vicinity of the US Consulate, where he had planned to seek political asylum.
2020-10-27
Fishermen moved boats to safer ground and villagers boarded up their homes across a wide swathe of coastal central Vietnam, as the Southeast Asian country prepared to evacuate nearly 1.3 million people ahead of Typhoon Molave. Molave, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday, will be the fourth storm to hit Vietnam in a month that saw 130 people killed and left 20 others missing.
2020-10-27
He Fangmei has been incommunicado, believed detained along with her disabled daughter since Oct. 6, after she splashed ink on a government building.
2020-10-26
Coronavirus has sapped trade workers’ incomes, yet they must pay hefty fee to Pyongyang.
2020-10-26
'Your wife and children still live in Phnom Penh,' Hun Sen tells US-based exile CNRP figure Ho Vann.
2020-10-26
But US ships shouldn't enter or operate in Manila's exclusive economic zone, the Philippines' defense secretary says.
2020-10-26
China’s coastguard and maritime militia are a semi-permanent fixture in the exclusive economic zones and near the claimed land features of its neighbors.
2020-10-26
Sources say supporters armed with weapons started fights with political rivals.
2020-10-26
The cases have thrown the city into a lockdown with mandatory testing of millions.
