Story Archive
2019-06-17
Wong, released a day after a record-breaking protest against a planned renditions law, also calls for the resignation of chief executive Carrie Lam.
2019-06-16
Another huge protest blocks traffic in the downtown area, amid calls for the resignation of chief executive Carrie Lam.
2019-06-15
Groups opposing plans to allow renditions to mainland China say Sunday's march will go ahead, and call for leader's resignation.
2019-06-14
Government forces and the Arakan Army both deny responsibility for the shooting, which sent five including a nine-year-old boy to a hospital.
2019-06-14
She and other family members say repeated appeals for medical parole have gone unanswered.
2019-06-14
Ambassador Zhao Jianhua promises swift action if the Chinese vessel involved in the incident is found to be at fault.
2019-06-14
Meanwhile, another activist flees his home after learning of police plans to arrest him for his posts on Facebook.
2019-06-14
Several members of chief executive Carrie Lam's cabinet now say the government should at least delay the extradition law changes.
2019-06-14
If accepted, Michele Bachelet would become the highest level UN official to visit the region.
2019-06-14
Activists are petitioning officials in the U.S. and Taipei to impose immigration curbs on Hong Kong officials who support renditions to China.
2019-06-13
Cambodia’s government says it has done nothing wrong, and doesn’t need to change its ways.
2019-06-13
A survivor of the shootings rejects the Commission's findings, though, saying soldiers fired on detainees unlawfully.
2019-06-13
The five-year-old girl’s body was recovered from a river nearly a week after she died, sources say.
2019-06-13
After being arrested for non-immigration related violations, they were discovered to be in the country illegally and charged with breaking immigration laws.
2019-06-13
Beijing claims it didn't propose changes to Hong Kong's extradition laws, and hits out at US, EU responses.
2019-06-13
Meanwhile, traffickers begin to leaflet openly in Vientiane to recruit young women and girls as ‘brides.’
2019-06-13
Thailand was pressured by Beijing to file charges, rights groups, and the Falun Gong-linked Sound of Hope allege.
2019-06-13
Beijing says incident at Recto Bank in the South China Sea was an accident.
2019-06-13
Pro-democracy politicians say the plan to allow the rendition of alleged criminal suspects to face trial in mainland China should be withdrawn.
2019-06-13
Travelers from North Korea must now find other means of watching South Korean TV in China.
2019-06-12
Myo Nyunt Than was being investigated in connection with the death of jailed protester Tun Myint Win, who authorities said had died of a 'fever.'
2019-06-12
She says Hung has been hospitalized and medicated against his will.
2019-06-12
Attapeu province’s governor cites funding issues as an excuse for nonpayment.
2019-06-12
The city's legislature is forced to abandon a debate on allowing the rendition of alleged suspects to mainland China.
2019-06-12
Vietnamese-flagged vessel rescues 22 fishermen, Manila’s defense chief says.
2019-06-12
A shot of boiling water to the larynx renders Pyongyang's balcony-raised chickens mute for life.
2019-06-11
Monks looking after civilians sheltering there had feared they might panic at the sight of uniformed troops coming into the camp.
2019-06-11
Surveillance aircraft being financed through “security assistance funding, and not national funds,” official says.
2019-06-11
Those being removed had come from areas in the Tibet Autonomous Region far from Sichuan, a local source says.
2019-06-11
The government says it has arrest warrants ready for the exiled Cambodia National Rescue Party leader.
