Story Archive
2018-03-30
The two sides are still hammering out details in their memorandum of understanding.
2018-03-30
Bus carrying 47 people burned in western Tak province, officials say.
2018-03-30
Lobsang Sangye was sentenced in a closed trial after seven months of incommunicado detention.
2018-03-30
Ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, stalled constitutional reform, and authoritarian tendencies leave little to celebrate.
2018-03-30
Beijing authorities say they have 'cleared' some 40 million square meters of 'illegal buildings,' as residents elsewhere in China point to fresh demolition drives.
2018-03-30
Pilot projects have begun linking surveillance cameras and internet-connected devices to a nationwide platform called 'Sharp Eyes.'
2018-03-30
Zhen Jianghua has been held incommunicado for five months with no access to family or a lawyer, prompting fears for his personal safety.
2018-03-29
They had tried to block police cars entering their village to force out residents resisting eviction.
2018-03-29
State security agents have been brought in from the capital to replace local security forces deemed not up to the job.
2018-03-29
Herders from Inner Mongolia are detained as they pursue long-running complaints over local pollution and the loss of grazing land.
2018-03-29
Political supporters of Beijing say lawmaker Au Nok-hin's burning of the city's mini-constitution should disqualify him from office.
2018-03-28
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during an unofficial visit to Beijing. The meeting came ahead of a planned meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump.
2018-03-28
Government-linked thugs have stepped up their attacks on Catholic communities in Vietnam, the rights group says.
2018-03-28
Win Myint becomes the country’s tenth president since independence in 1948.
2018-03-28
Aung Ko Htway was arrested last year after describing his ordeal in an interview with RFA.
2018-03-28
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is trying to put pressure on the US with his Beijing trip, and buy more time until his nuclear weapons are ready, experts say.
2018-03-28
The women were held for nearly a month as President Xi Jinping began his second, and indefinite, term in office following changes to the constitution.
2018-03-27
PM Hun Sen boasts about ordering the CNRP leader’s arrest and vows to hold elections in July without opponents.
2018-03-27
The two men were badly burned and suffered injuries from beatings, a rights investigator says.
2018-03-27
Simply showing an interest in taking a trip outside of China is enough to warrant arrest.
2018-03-27
Wang Yu and Bao Longjun say they are unable to make overseas money transfers, and haven't been permitted to return to their jobs since their bail restrictions expired.
2018-03-27
The United Front Work Department will 'manage' and investigate Chinese citizens with overseas ties, along with ethnic Chinese citizens of other countries.
2018-03-26
The five group members scheduled for trial were engaged only in peaceful, legitimate activities, a group spokesperson says.
2018-03-26
Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy repeats his call on PM Hun Sen to hold dialogue with his opponents on national issues.
2018-03-26
Chinese authorities say the accounts contain funds attained from illegal activities.
2018-03-26
They say the agreement could be used to target critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government.
2018-03-26
Myo Nyunt, a new spokesmen for the ruling National League for Democracy, says the likely election of Vice President Win Myint to the presidency will bring positive change.
2018-03-26
Previously catering to foreign businessmen and other visitors, the bars no longer make money for the regime, sources say.
2018-03-26
The article hits out at 'spinelessness' in academic circles, calling on scholars to use their pens to speak truth to power.
2018-03-26
The entire purpose of the constitution is to provide legal meaning, which makes a nonsense of its references to political ideologies, a former top Communist Party aide argues.
