Story Archive
2020-02-21
The ruling Chinese Communist Party fires and sanctions prison officials, but a lawyer says the authorities are trying to 'appease public opinion.'
2020-02-21
Economists warn against consequences of stimulus policies.
2020-02-20
Thai Srey Neang had been warned against making further posts, and had broken a promise to stop, police say.
2020-02-20
China, ASEAN Ministers Hold Emergency meeting in Laos on COVID-19.
2020-02-20
Sources on the ground say there is a high mortality rate among patients who become seriously or critically ill with COVID-19.
2020-02-20
Rights activists say escape attempts will continue until the root causes of the Rohingya exodus are addressed.
2020-02-20
Du Thi Thanh, wife of slain village leader Le Dinh Kinh, collapsed in a faint after police insisted she sign a statement saying she had refused to cooperate with them.
2020-02-20
The Chinese nationals had sought asylum citing persecution, but were designated security concerns.
2020-02-20
Bureau of Immigration officers allegedly took bribes to allow Chinese gaming workers in.
2020-02-20
A rice industry spokesman says Hong Kong gets most of its rice from Thailand and Vietnam, not virus-hit mainland China.
2020-02-20
Xayaburi dam, Laos’ first mainstream Mekong hydropower project, churns up trouble for Thai villagers.
2020-02-19
Local officials confirm that one member of a Uyghur family of four in Ghulja is infected.
2020-02-19
Pressure from the international community has done little to force change in Vietnam, they said.
2020-02-19
Confirmed cases have now been moved to Sichuan's Dartsedo county for medical treatment, local sources say.
2020-02-19
He had ordered authorities to ‘educate’ women who wear ‘revealing’ clothing on the platform.
2020-02-19
Residents are required to show passes to leave their residential compounds, and to drive on the city's roads.
2020-02-19
The military and the Arakan Army blame each other for the death of a Rohingya man in Buthidaung township.
2020-02-19
The foreign ministry cites a recent op-ed headline, yet the move comes one day after State Department measures targeting Chinese state media in the US.
2020-02-18
Many residents rely on smuggling for their living, but authorities redefine it as treasonous.
2020-02-18
Around 370 people have meanwhile been quarantined for observation in Tawu facilities described by one source as 'makeshift' and 'poor.'
2020-02-18
Asiye Abdulahad says the document shows normal religious practices are landing Uyghurs in detention.
2020-02-18
UN experts sound a warning on rising casualties among children in Rakhine.
2020-02-18
Cambodia will issue a formal statement on the partial EBA withdrawal at the end of February.
2020-02-18
Europe's ratification last week of a Free Trade Agreement with Vietnam will embolden leaders to commit further crackdowns, rights groups say.
2020-02-18
Son Loi commune in ‘high spirits’ days after quarantine begins.
2020-02-18
People living in the city say the authorities will only let people see information that is closely controlled by the government.
2020-02-18
The five-month-old died a week after receiving treatment for a fractured thigh bone.
2020-02-18
The government says it will expand its surveillance and testing regime in a bid to detect more cases at an earlier stage.
2020-02-17
Xu, who recently called on supreme leader Xi Jinping to resign, is detained using a nationwide facial recognition system in the southern city of Guangzhou.
2020-02-17
National People's Congress deputies will likely be more urgently needed on the "front line" of the COVID-19 epidemic, state media reports.
