Story Archive
2018-05-31
Authorities are watching citizens for signs of prohibited money and movies from the South.
2018-05-31
They had called in public for the release of students detained in an earlier protest against fighting in Kachin state.
2018-05-31
A Uyghur in Malaysia says she recently learned that her mother was detained in a political re-education camp by authorities in Xinjiang.
2018-05-31
A labor rights group says the protests underscore a wider problem for teachers in poorer areas of China.
2018-05-31
The government says the panel is part of a 'national initiative to address reconciliation, peace, stability and development' in the ethnically and religiously divided state.
2018-05-31
Activists say Liu's struggle for a more democratic form of government makes him a natural symbol of the 1989 democracy movement.
2018-05-30
They say the measure is reminiscent of restrictions on students under previous military dictatorships.
2018-05-30
Though plantations are being phased out in the country's northern provinces, new farms are being set up in the south.
2018-05-30
Sources say the two men were targeted as part of a crackdown on so-called ‘two-faced’ officials.
2018-05-30
The domestic propaganda campaign includes phrasing that indicates Pyongyang will not give up its nuclear capabilities.
2018-05-30
The ruling Chinese Communist Party is 'diluting' its promises to let the people of Hong Kong run their own affairs with the exception of foreign and military matters, a report says.
2018-05-30
But parents and rights activists say that she is a scapegoat and that the case masks a far wider problem in China's education system.
2018-05-29
China has jailed hundreds of thousands of Muslims in re-education camps, while Myanmar stepped up attacks on religious minorities during the year.
2018-05-29
Ichiro Maruyama meets with officials from the Arakan National Party during a visit to the area where a crackdown on Muslims occurred.
2018-05-29
The 15 are denied basic rights, according to opposition officials, who want them released.
2018-05-29
Brigadier General Aung Kyaw Hoe blames attacks on national force by the Kachin Independence Army for holding up the country’s peace process.
2018-05-29
She may have been targeted for studying in a country deemed a hotbed of Muslim ‘extremism.’
2018-05-29
In the northern region of Inner Mongolia, many lose their jobs as the ruling Chinese Communist Party shuts down Mongolian-medium schools.
2018-05-29
A shroud of official secrecy still surrounds developments at the Legal Evening News, with few willing to speak about the changes.
2018-05-29
The country’s lending policies leave investors in doubt.
2018-05-28
Police are targeting ethnic minorities, migrant workers and anyone critical of the government ahead of a cross-border cooperation summit on June 9.
2018-05-28
Local residents say business continues as usual as the quake strikes farmland on the outskirts of Jilin's Songyuan city.
2018-05-25
Cham Prasidh, Minister for Industry and Handicraft, had blamed cyanide and chromium cast off into water sources by Chinese-operated mines.
2018-05-25
Experts see an intensification of the Communist Party's "United Front" tactics targeted at Taiwan's democracy.
2018-05-25
Meanwhile, most North Koreans are unaware the talks were even cancelled.
2018-05-25
Xu Yan, wife of lawyer caught up in a crackdown on rights defenders, is herself incommunicado after posting a photo of their meeting.
2018-05-25
Both sides have threatened to impose tariffs, raising fears of a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
2018-05-25
Outside China, activists plan to dress up as the iconic Tank Man, who blocked the path of oncoming tanks holding two bags of groceries.
2018-05-25
Local people say the village committee has started mining without a permit, after falsifying an environmental impact assessment.
2018-05-24
But a former opposition leader says courts should act on threats against people who don’t plan to vote.
