Story Archive
2020-01-28
Regional authorities take measures to slow infections, but say nothing of closing the detention facilities.
2020-01-28
Refugees will be sent back to their makeshift homes “when the tense situation is over,” official says.
2020-01-28
The Tibet Policy and Support Act passes the House by a vote of 392 to 22, and now requires a vote in the Senate.
2020-01-28
Malaysia and Thailand document more cases while the Philippines monitors travelers from Wuhan, China.
2020-01-28
University students demonstrate over policies that lengthen the school year, and are scolded by her.
2020-01-28
Stars and basketball fans alike remember his persistence and determination, and his connection to China.
2020-01-28
China reports more than 4,000 coronavirus cases as quarantined Wuhan residents say they are 'going crazy.'
2020-01-27
Yeang Sothearin and Uon Chhin asked the court to drop a reinvestigation into 2017 espionage charges.
2020-01-27
But Bangladeshi police say a Christian Rohingya first attacked a Muslim, sparking an 'ordinary law-and-order incident.'
2020-01-27
The trial starts again in a civilian court after the defendants pleaded not guilty earlier before a military tribunal.
2020-01-27
Monasteries and major cultural sites are closing, while health officials screen travelers at entry points to Tibet's regional capital Lhasa, sources say.
2020-01-27
They say they do not want the facility in Myebon township near their army camp.
2020-01-27
Cui Haoxin, who writes under the pen name An Ran, is being held under criminal detention for 'picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.'
2020-01-27
Southeast Asian nations are bracing for the spread of the virus and urging citizens to stay vigilant.
2020-01-27
Another 14 are sentenced from 2 to 20 years.
2020-01-27
Communities in provinces near the epicenter of the outbreak block highways and local roads leading from Hubei and Wuhan, as food shortages begin to bite.
2020-01-27
Prison says they rebelled against prison authorities and refused to work.
2020-01-27
The government orders state-owned enterprises to clear up arrears.
2020-01-26
Dozens of cases are confirmed in major cities as China's health minister warns that the virus is mutating to become more easily transmissible between people.
2020-01-24
Many came from Wuhan, leaving just ahead of a Jan. 22 ban on travel from the area where the coronavirus began to spread.
2020-01-24
Little progress has been made in the case of Sam Bopha, three months after her death.
2020-01-24
Authorities cancel or restrict traditional festive events, citing concerns for public safety during the ongoing protest movement and coronavirus epidemic.
2020-01-24
Activists say Myanmar needs to take action if it wants to preserve its international reputation.
2020-01-24
The pair were convicted after a book they permitted was deemed ‘extremist’ three years later.
2020-01-24
The novel coronavirus has prompted lockdowns of several cities in central China, with cases confirmed around the world.
2020-01-24
Traders spread rumors about the ‘new deadly Wuhan pneumonia,’ scaring many residents.
2020-01-24
Luo Shengchun, the U.S.-based wife of rights attorney Ding Jiaxi, is once more pressing her husband's case in Washington after he was redetained.
2020-01-24
Nguyen Ngoc Anh has been subject to frequent beatings and other physical abuse by prison guards, his wife and rights groups say.
2020-01-24
Thailand's Bangkok Post urges the release of the group, who have been held in an immigration cell for almost six years.
2020-01-23
Liu Daiqing was recently released from a six-month prison term for 'picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.'
