Story Archive
2020-10-22
Earlier this month, it said the 60 fishermen would be investigated for entering Malaysian waters without notice.
2020-10-22
Officials said the conference was needed because the U.N. had not met its 2020 goal.
2020-10-22
AA denies NGO’s claim, says it is buying ‘old rice’ above the market price.
2020-10-22
The Aksu Huafu Textile Factory was named in video reports issued by a now-detained Uyghur.
2020-10-22
Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam had previously received data only during the rainy season, amid growing concerns over restricted water flows from Chinese dams upstream.
2020-10-22
Critics say the Holy See is selling out to the Chinese Communist Party, where religious persecution continues unabated.
2020-10-22
Tuo Zhen's promotion is linked to his willingness to purge liberal media outlets under general secretary Xi Jinping.
2020-10-22
Families are calling for international pressure on China to release the detainees, who include at least two minors and one Portuguese national.
2020-10-21
The death toll climbs to 111 in Vietnam and 34 in Cambodia, with many still cut off by floods and damaged roads.
2020-10-21
Japanese Prime Minister Suga says Japan will provide Vietnam, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries with patrol boats to guard against incursions in their territorial waters.
2020-10-21
Lawmakers want Ottawa to follow suit and level sanctions against Chinese officials.
2020-10-21
"The U.S. has to separate Xi and 'Xi’s gang' from the 90 million party members," says scholar Xai Xia.
2020-10-21
Lectures blame continued border closure on South Korean conspiracy to introduce coronavirus to the North.
2020-10-21
Kalash MQS is the latest celebrity to draw attention to the situation in Xinjiang.
2020-10-21
A trawl through publicly available information keeps turning up the same name: Shen Yong.
2020-10-21
Lee Rae-jin details his family’s efforts to find closure after North Korean soldiers killed his brother at sea.
2020-10-21
The fight against authoritarian rule is now taking place among teachers, social workers, and lawyers, says a founder of the 2014 Occupy Central movement.
2020-10-20
"I believe the group of people around me all hope for the change of the system. We hope that constitutional democracy and liberal democracy can truly be realized."
2020-10-20
Citizens say arbitrary forced labor order will do little to improve their lives.
2020-10-20
Authorities say more rains puts the battered region at risk for additional flooding and landslides.
2020-10-20
Villagers fear destruction of Vang Vieng's natural beauty, loss of their land, and China's growing reach.
2020-10-20
Myanmar, a multiethnic nation of 54 million people the size of France or Texas, holds nationwide elections on Nov. 8, with some 7,000 candidates from more than 90 parties, as well as independents, are vying for more than 1,100 seats available in both houses of the national parliament and in state and regional legislatures.
2020-10-20
School officials determined the Uyghur pair were in custody after they failed to return following summer break.
2020-10-20
Wang Zang's wife Wang Li is sent to hospital after being arrested on the same charge as her husband.
2020-10-20
The vote is cancelled wholly in 15 townships in Shan and Rakhine states and partially in over 500 village tracts in Kachin, Karen, and Mon States and the Bago region.
2020-10-20
Many prominent figures are incommunicado, as the ruling Chinese Communist Party fires, detains, and 'retrains' anyone who disagrees with a new curriculum.
2020-10-19
The Arakan Army says the "NLD is using traitorous Rakhine people to turn against each other."
2020-10-19
Former detainees tell HRW how they survived torture, forced labor and other crimes against humanity.
2020-10-19
First arrested in Lhasa in 1960, Sangpo was in and out of Chinese prisons until winning release on medical parole in 2002.
2020-10-19
Homes are also damaged and thousands are displaced, with many cut off from rescuers or supplies of aid.
