Story Archive
2018-01-31
They had sent video clips criticizing Vietnam's Communist Party and government to Facebook and YouTube.
2018-01-31
The suspects are members of Cambodia’s border forces seen as backing the loggers.
2018-01-31
Ngawang Tsomo was subjected to torture and poor conditions during her seven-year sentence.
2018-01-31
Authorities are setting up Russian-made radio locators along the border with China.
2018-01-31
His appearance in the capital will mark the first time a hearing has been held for him away from the remote prison where he has been held until now.
2018-01-31
A chorus of concern and criticism has greeted the barring of a would-be pro-democracy election candidate, Agnes Chow, from running in legislative elections.
2018-01-31
Wang Qishan has been appointed to China’s national legislature. He used his previous position on the Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to enforce allegiance to President Xi Jinping.
2018-01-31
A developer known only by her online nickname, 'Broken Doll,' stops work on her circumvention tool after threats from a murky online community.
2018-01-31
The country’s telecoms regulator says anyone needing ‘a dedicated line’ or service to scale the Great Firewall can lease one from the government.
2018-01-30
A former UPI war correspondent recalls a pivotal event in the Vietnam War on its 50th anniversary.
2018-01-30
A Kazakh national recalls seven months in detention in Xinjiang for alleged ‘terrorist activities.’
2018-01-30
The Kachin Independence Army believes that the military has stepped up its assaults to force the group to sign a key peace pact.
2018-01-30
Lodroe Gyatso is believed to have shouted political slogans in front of Lhasa's Potala Palace, sources say.
2018-01-30
The students are demanding increases in the country’s underfunded education budget.
2018-01-30
Statement appears to support defense claims that the two Southeast Asian women were duped into believing they were performing for a TV show.
2018-01-30
As Vietnamese dissident lawyer Nguyen Van Dai enters his third year of pretrial detention, his wife voices fears for his health.
2018-01-30
The Mekong-Lancang Cooperation forum has sharpened longstanding concerns about environmental damage from China’s dam-building.
2018-01-30
State security police are 'very interested' in the activities of pro-democracy groups and other exiles critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2018-01-30
Veteran Chinese democracy activist Zhang Lin recently arrived in the U.S., several years after he first planned to leave China to escape continual pressure from authorities.
2018-01-29
Muhammad Salih Hajim, 82, had been detained about 40 days before his death.
2018-01-29
ARSA insurgents took a camp leader and his brother, according to an eyewitness.
2018-01-29
Soldiers clash again with the Kachin Independence Army in Tanaing township.
2018-01-29
He says the movement’s main objective is to ensure free and fair elections in July.
2018-01-29
Many vow not to return if they must promise not to protest in the future.
2018-01-29
Agnes Chow says the rejection of her nomination means the ‘political obliteration’ of an entire generation in the city.
2018-01-29
Air quality suffers in provinces beyond the capital region, according to Greenpeace.
2018-01-29
Yu Wensheng could face pressure to ‘confess’ to the charge while in custody, his lawyer warns.
2018-01-26
Dim Kundy and Hun Vannak will be released in weeks, getting credit for time served.
2018-01-26
Residents say the offer is low based on compensation for land in similar development projects.
2018-01-26
A team of local lawmakers will investigate the killings of ethnic Rakhines during a police crackdown.
