Story Archive
2020-05-27
Human Rights Watch calls for a credible and impartial investigation into what happened.
2020-05-26
Tibetans receiving state pensions are also forbidden to attend observances during the month of Saga Dawa.
2020-05-26
Eko Haryanto, 26, who died on May 22, had previously worked on a Chinese boat.
2020-05-26
Meanwhile, unidentified assailants murder a local official who had posted a notice ordering the eviction.
2020-05-26
The opposition calls for a suspension of debt repayment and protections against property confiscation.
2020-05-26
Party-loyalists-turned-critics Pham Chi Thanh and Nguyen Tuong Thuy were arrested last week on charges that penalize opposition to the party-state.
2020-05-26
President Tsai Ing-wen says the island, like the US, can revoke Hong Kong's separate trading status if Beijing imposes a draconian subversion law on the city.
2020-05-26
The appointment comes ahead of a vote on a bill to sanction China over rights abuses in Xinjiang.
2020-05-26
The teachers will have a 'strong political stance' and offer tips on history according to the Chinese government and patriotic education.
2020-05-25
Officials say the law targets 'terrorists,' and that only a 'very small number' of people will be punished.
2020-05-24
The protests come after Beijing announced it would impose sedition and subversion laws on the city and allow its state security police to operate there.
2020-05-23
The RFA contributor is the third Vietnam Independent Journalists Association member arrested since 2019.
2020-05-22
Wife’s brother had escaped to South Korea without his son, and asked his sister to reunite them in the South.
2020-05-22
India is wary that “as China gets stronger in the South China Sea, these kinds of provocations in the Andaman Sea and more broadly in South Asia will grow,” said Abhijit Singh.
2020-05-22
South Korean experts notice mythification of the Kim Dynasty shifting towards the realistic.
2020-05-22
The ousted minister is the largest graft case in the four-year rule of Aung San Suu Kyi.
2020-05-22
The U.S. says the plan is the 'death knell' for Hong Kong's autonomy, while others say it will pave the way for widespread human rights violations.
2020-05-22
Cambodia lodged a complaint more than a week ago, but 28 structures are still standing.
2020-05-22
Observers say despoiling the region’s most important mosque signals ‘an effective ban on the Islamic faith.’
2020-05-22
The ruling Chinese Communist Party plans to allow its feared state security police to run operations in the city to enforce national security laws.
2020-05-22
Fans don't work in stifling hot cells, medicine sent by family members is not received, and prisoners' letters are never sent, the wife of one prisoner says.
2020-05-22
Regional suppliers hold talks to share shortfall as demand declines.
2020-05-22
The European Commission on May 7 put Cambodia on a blacklist of 12 "high-risk" countries with deficient anti-money laundering programs that "pose significant threats to the EU's financial system." Money laundering in Cambodia often takes the form of elites, including relatives of strongman Hun Sen, hiding money of unknown provenance in overseas banks or real estate, an RFA investigation has shown.
2020-05-22
China said on May 21 it would "perfect the legal system" of Hong Kong with national security legislation targeting dissent, while media reports said the Chinese Communist Party might simply insert the unpopular law directly onto Hong Kong's statute book without ratification by the city's legislature -- moves that threaten the "high degree of autonomy" and a separate legal jurisdiction the former British colony was promised for 50 years after 1997.
2020-05-22
Upgrades on Pag-asa Island (Thitu Island) include the refurbishment of runway facilities and docking areas.
2020-05-21
Prisoners say they were questioned about local Arakan Army activities.
2020-05-21
The border with Thailand remains closed, and some families are living hand to mouth.
2020-05-21
Thirty-five detainees, many of them from Myanmar and India, tested positive for the virus.
2020-05-21
The military is having increasing difficulty distinguishing between civilians and rebel fighters.
2020-05-21
Lawmakers say the treaty is unlikely to see the light of day in parliament and that they would oppose it.
