Story Archive
2020-10-21
Lawmakers want Ottawa to follow suit and level sanctions against Chinese officials.
2020-10-21
"The U.S. has to separate Xi and 'Xi’s gang' from the 90 million party members," says scholar Xai Xia.
2020-10-21
Lectures blame continued border closure on South Korean conspiracy to introduce coronavirus to the North.
2020-10-21
Kalash MQS is the latest celebrity to draw attention to the situation in Xinjiang.
2020-10-21
A trawl through publicly available information keeps turning up the same name: Shen Yong.
2020-10-21
Lee Rae-jin details his family’s efforts to find closure after North Korean soldiers killed his brother at sea.
2020-10-21
The fight against authoritarian rule is now taking place among teachers, social workers, and lawyers, says a founder of the 2014 Occupy Central movement.
2020-10-20
"I believe the group of people around me all hope for the change of the system. We hope that constitutional democracy and liberal democracy can truly be realized."
2020-10-20
Citizens say arbitrary forced labor order will do little to improve their lives.
2020-10-20
Authorities say more rains puts the battered region at risk for additional flooding and landslides.
2020-10-20
Villagers fear destruction of Vang Vieng's natural beauty, loss of their land, and China's growing reach.
2020-10-20
Myanmar, a multiethnic nation of 54 million people the size of France or Texas, holds nationwide elections on Nov. 8, with some 7,000 candidates from more than 90 parties, as well as independents, are vying for more than 1,100 seats available in both houses of the national parliament and in state and regional legislatures.
2020-10-20
School officials determined the Uyghur pair were in custody after they failed to return following summer break.
2020-10-20
Wang Zang's wife Wang Li is sent to hospital after being arrested on the same charge as her husband.
2020-10-20
The vote is cancelled wholly in 15 townships in Shan and Rakhine states and partially in over 500 village tracts in Kachin, Karen, and Mon States and the Bago region.
2020-10-20
Many prominent figures are incommunicado, as the ruling Chinese Communist Party fires, detains, and 'retrains' anyone who disagrees with a new curriculum.
2020-10-19
The Arakan Army says the "NLD is using traitorous Rakhine people to turn against each other."
2020-10-19
Former detainees tell HRW how they survived torture, forced labor and other crimes against humanity.
2020-10-19
First arrested in Lhasa in 1960, Sangpo was in and out of Chinese prisons until winning release on medical parole in 2002.
2020-10-19
Homes are also damaged and thousands are displaced, with many cut off from rescuers or supplies of aid.
2020-10-19
While the defense export agreement has yet to be signed, it points the way for Japan to sell military equipment and technology to Vietnam.
2020-10-19
Din Varin is the latest of at least 10 CNRP members to be attacked by unidentified men since late 2019.
2020-10-19
Abdughopur Abdureshid’s family asks Kabul for help after only recently learning he was detained in 2017.
2020-10-19
Two people from the Chinese embassy scuffle with Taiwan officials at an event marking the democratic island's National Day.
2020-10-19
Rights groups call on Berlin to keep its promise to ease the path of asylum applicants from Hong Kong.
2020-10-19
Professor Anne-Marie Brady faces a disciplinary process following complaints over a paper exposing local institutions' China ties.
2020-10-17
However, Duterte’s decision to resume oil search in the South China Sea is unilateral, the energy secretary said.
2020-10-16
Police and military forces used sniffer dogs, a crane and drones to search for the men, who sawed iron bars to break out of an immigration detention center.
2020-10-16
The US is deeply committed to the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Tibetan people, says Robert A. Destro, the State Department's newly designated Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues.
2020-10-16
The country's WHO representative tells RFA that recent developments point to more infections.
