Story Archive
2020-10-27
PPE is imported from China and polling stations are added as country of 54 million faces surge in pandemic.
2020-10-27
Forced resettlement schemes and military-style 'vocational training' have uprooted thousands from traditional livelihoods, taking them far from their homes, experts say.
2020-10-27
The ruling means the investigation will continue, nearly three years after the pair were arrested.
2020-10-27
The designation would allow Washington to coordinate an international effort to intervene.
2020-10-27
Chung was taken away from the vicinity of the US Consulate, where he had planned to seek political asylum.
2020-10-27
Fishermen moved boats to safer ground and villagers boarded up their homes across a wide swathe of coastal central Vietnam, as the Southeast Asian country prepared to evacuate nearly 1.3 million people ahead of Typhoon Molave. Molave, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday, will be the fourth storm to hit Vietnam in a month that saw 130 people killed and left 20 others missing.
2020-10-27
He Fangmei has been incommunicado, believed detained along with her disabled daughter since Oct. 6, after she splashed ink on a government building.
2020-10-26
Coronavirus has sapped trade workers’ incomes, yet they must pay hefty fee to Pyongyang.
2020-10-26
'Your wife and children still live in Phnom Penh,' Hun Sen tells US-based exile CNRP figure Ho Vann.
2020-10-26
But US ships shouldn't enter or operate in Manila's exclusive economic zone, the Philippines' defense secretary says.
2020-10-26
China’s coastguard and maritime militia are a semi-permanent fixture in the exclusive economic zones and near the claimed land features of its neighbors.
2020-10-26
Sources say supporters armed with weapons started fights with political rivals.
2020-10-26
The cases have thrown the city into a lockdown with mandatory testing of millions.
2020-10-26
They say that the heightened risk of persecution Uyghurs face requires greater US protection.
2020-10-26
Michael Nguyen, a resident of California, had been serving a 12-year prison term and was freed on what the US Embassy in Hanoi called 'humanitarian grounds.'
2020-10-26
Chinese fishing vessels bearing no tracking technology are depleting fish and squid stocks around the world, researchers say.
2020-10-26
Government orders all citizens to wear coronavirus masks publicly, but only if they are “legitimately’ produced.
2020-10-26
Critics of the CCP are being taken out of town, with tight security around the Jingxi Hotel.
2020-10-23
Presidential office says kidnapping incident rolls back hard-fought democratic freedoms.
2020-10-23
The four were convicted of terror-related offenses in 2015, and were sent back to China last month after China paid their fines.
2020-10-23
Lau Phan, an electrical engineer, was killed in a robbery as he carried funds to pay his workers, in the fourth murder of a Chinese worker in Bangladesh since June 20, 2019.
2020-10-23
The Myawaddy had said that candidates for parliament must preserve the country's 'race and religion,' a violation of election laws.
2020-10-23
Matt Pottinger says Beijing should be called out for abuses, including those against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
2020-10-23
Nguyen Quang Khai had angered authorities by using the popular social media platform to discuss social and political problems in Vietnam.
2020-10-23
Users posted hundreds of thousands of tweets under the hashtag ‘if Lao politics was good’ in recent days.
2020-10-23
Former colleague Xu Zhangrun says Geng shouldn't be targeted because she expressed support for him during his detention.
2020-10-23
Discrepancies cloud official report of rapid recovery.
2020-10-23
Funding from China is likely more widespread than many believe, with universities slow to respond to human rights concerns, experts say.
2020-10-23
Australian professor Feng Chongyi says Yang Hengjun told him he worked for the state security police for 10 years.
2020-10-22
Experts say border closures in China brought on by coronavirus caused the dramatic decline.