Story Archive
2020-10-16
Ly Chantola helped draft a law dissolving Cambodia's CNRP and is helping prosecute opposition chief Kem Sokha for treason.
2020-10-16
Author Pencilo was found not guilty of violating the Telecommunications Law’s notorious Section 66(d), in a first.
2020-10-16
The incident comes amid transparency concerns over donations procured by the government.
2020-10-16
All four men were either making a pilgrimage to Mecca or legally permitted to live in Saudi Arabia.
2020-10-16
They had wanted to hold ceremonies deemed by local authorities to violate Lao cultural traditions.
2020-10-16
Analysts see few signs of progress toward 2060 goal in years of economic recovery.
2020-10-16
A Hong Kong protester who fled the city after the siege of the Polytechnic University says he has left his whole life behind.
2020-10-16
Tsai lauds women in the armed forces, while calling for an end to a traditional gift for girls on International Day of the Girl.
2020-10-16
Tropical storms have caused flash floods throughout the neighboring nations, destroying crops and infrastructure, and impacting hundreds of thousands of households.
2020-10-16
China appears to be expanding the use of a digital smartphone scanner far beyond Xinjiang, where it was first used to target Muslims.
2020-10-16
Chinese ambassador Cong Peiwu tells Ottawa not to grant political asylum to fleeing Hong Kong protesters.
2020-10-16
Faced with falling demand for Chinese exports amid trade friction with the United States and other partners, President Xi Jinping has unveiled a "dual circulation" policy that calls for boosting domestic consumption to create demand for products that are now sold abroad. A new name for the rebalancing toward consumption that China tried and failed to do a decade ago, "dual circulation" faces hurdles as the share of private consumption in China's GDP remains low, household debt as a share of disposable income is rising, and policies that would raise wages for workers would make Chinese-made goods more expensive and reduce export competitiveness.
2020-10-15
Senior Union Election Commission official says strict rules and lessons from Asian states have helped country prepare.
2020-10-15
Myanmar Union Election Commission member Myint Naing says safety rules properly followed will minimize COVID-19 risks on Nov. 8.
2020-10-15
The Special Rapporteur urges the North to repurpose resources and assess the impact of its controls.
2020-10-15
Bangladesh’s foreign minister and a visiting senior American official discuss efforts to aid the refugee group.
2020-10-15
NGOs say corrupt tycoons use them to whitewash past crimes and curry favor with the government.
2020-10-15
Defense Minister Yen Teh-fa told legislators on Oct. 8 that there had been 217 sorties by PLAAF aircraft into Taiwan’s southwestern ADIZ in 2020.
2020-10-15
The State Department issues its first report under the Hong Kong Autonomy Act targeting those who have curbed the city's promised freedoms.
2020-10-15
A pro-democracy lawmaker says the political witch-hunts of the Cultural Revolution are now being replayed in Hong Kong.
2020-10-14
The abductions took place in southern Rakhine, which has been relatively untouched by the 23-month-old conflict.
2020-10-14
The Union Election Commission says the politicians failed to meet citizenship requirements.
2020-10-14
Tibet advocacy groups welcome the move, calling it a display of support for the Tibetan people and a sign of a strengthened US stance toward China.
2020-10-14
Rising waters are befouled by weeks of trash left by striking sanitation workers.
2020-10-14
Vietnam hasn't commented on the intrusion yet, but China's move comes at a diplomatically sensitive time.
2020-10-14
Ablet Bawudun had been detained in 2017 in excellent physical condition.
2020-10-14
The New People's Army (NPA) will target Chinese companies involved in the 'plunder and destruction of Philippine marine resources' in the South China Sea, the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines says.
2020-10-14
Xi's economic reforms will likely lead the Chinese economy back in the direction of central planning.
2020-10-14
Young campaigners across several Asian nations issue calls to resist Chinese influence and authoritarian rule by their own governments.
2020-10-13
Campaign posters and voting apps have featured derogatory language about the Muslim minority in western Myanmar.
