Story Archive
2020-11-23
The meeting with administration officials signals a new level of engagement with Tibet's exile government, Lobsang Sangay says.
2020-11-23
The move is aimed at providing a faster response to encroachments by Chinese and Vietnamese fishing fleets, Indonesia's navy chief says.
2020-11-23
Guided missiles and other weapons systems will be used to combat extremists in Mindanao and to defend the Philippines' interests in the disputed regional waterway.
2020-11-23
Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam face jail terms of up to three years for their role in a peaceful protest last year.
2020-11-23
Global fashion brands have little hope of seeing anything in Xinjiang that the authorities don't want them to see, activists say.
2020-11-20
Released in October to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the party’s founding, most have become vagrants.
2020-11-20
Leaders from 21 APEC nations also agreed to ensure equitable access to affordable COVID-19 vaccines.
2020-11-20
Aung San Suu Kyi says the infection rate is likely to increase as a result of gatherings after the Nov. 8 elections.
2020-11-20
Security personnel blocked the women from petitioning King Norodom Sihamoni to free their husbands.
2020-11-20
Geng Xiaonan has been denied visits from her defense lawyers and faces more serious charges than when she was first arrested.
2020-11-20
Smugglers sold gold worth some $6.5 million at the Chinese border in five separate incidents since September.
2020-11-20
A Uyghur activist in exile says he has documented the arrests of at least 613 imams.
2020-11-20
The ruling Chinese Communist Party is in the third year of a nationwide campaign that charges rich people with serious crimes and confiscates their assets.
2020-11-20
The raid comes after officials and the university management warned that graduating students' use of protest slogans was in breach of the draconian law.
2020-11-20
Trade gains may overstate prospects for GDP this year.
2020-11-19
Theary Seng, an opposition supporter and critic of strongman Hun Sen, goes to court Nov. 26.
2020-11-19
The chances for meaningful dialogue between Beijing and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama remain 'tenuous,' though, Robert Destro says.
2020-11-19
The military's use of Rohingya children to guide troops through minefields was a war crime, the NGO says.
2020-11-19
Aung San Suu Kyi’s sway strengthens her party’s control of the country of 54 million people.
2020-11-19
They were charged under a vaguely written law that rights groups say is used to jail anti-war protesters and suppress peaceful dissent.
2020-11-19
A journalists' association calls on police officers to start displaying their ID numbers immediately.
2020-11-18
The war-torn state has not reported fighting since Nov. 10, amid positive moves between adversaries.
2020-11-18
Residents of other affected villages may remain in their homes, but will lose land to the project, a joint venture with Laos.
2020-11-18
Hong Kong companies form part of a network of concerns linking Iranian state employees, Chinese nationals and arms dealing.
2020-11-18
The Malaysian developer backed by state-owned PowerChina had failed to complete the project and must now return the land on which it would have been built.
2020-11-18
Bor Bet and Sim Sovandy said authorities had sought them multiple times at their temple and hometowns.
2020-11-18
Business owners say non-tariff barriers will continue to the benefit of Chinese buyers.
2020-11-18
Camps, a crematorium, and a corridor for expediting organ transport appear to be part of a local system.
2020-11-18
Critics say the new law may not be up to the task in a heavily polluted country.
2020-11-18
The arrests came after charges were dropped against a pro-China lawmaker accused of assaulting a pro-democracy lawmaker.
