Story Archive
2017-06-30
State lawmakers call for more security in villages surrounding Maungdaw town to prevent further attacks.
2017-06-30
At least 140 North Koreans who worked in Sarawak state have been deported.
2017-06-30
Meanwhile, journalists enlist civil society in a campaign to repeal the law he is charged under.
2017-06-30
Protesters say President Xi is being kept in a bubble, where he won't be able to see any protests or hear any dissenting voices.
2017-06-30
News about the political prisoner is being tightly controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2017-06-29
Rights groups have slammed the harsh sentences handed down for Facebook posts criticizing the Lao government.
2017-06-29
The foreign ministry orders embassies not to grant entry visas for the UN mission charged with investigating army atrocities following the October 2016 attacks by militants.
2017-06-29
A court investigation ends after 427 days and their case will proceed to trial.
2017-06-29
More than 60 domestic and international organizations want the government to abolish Article 66(d) or decriminalize defamation.
2017-06-29
Seng Viyaketh denies that the timber, held after the 27 trucks carrying it to Vietnam were inspected at the border, belongs to her.
2017-06-29
Activist Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh is convicted for ‘spreading propaganda against the state.’
2017-06-29
They are assaulted when they resist the removal of a cross they say was set up on land belonging to their church.
2017-06-29
Chinese President Xi Jinping, visiting Hong Kong to mark 20 years of rule by China, was met on arrival in the former British colony on June 29 with calls to release writer and democracy activist Liu Xiaobo. Liu, 61, is being treated at a hospital in northeastern China, following a diagnosis of late-stage liver cancer. Liu was already in jail when he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" in a decision that infuriated Beijing, which put his wife under strict house arrest.
2017-06-29
Chinese President Xi Jinping, visiting Hong Kong to mark 20 years of rule by China, was met on arrival in the former British colony on June 29 with calls to release writer and democracy activist Liu Xiaobo. Liu, 61, is being treated at a hospital in northeastern China, following a diagnosis of late-stage liver cancer. Liu was already in jail when he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" in a decision that infuriated Beijing, which put his wife under strict house arrest.
2017-06-29
As Xi begins a trip marking two decades under Chinese rule, protests are planned on Saturday's anniversary of the 1997 handover.
2017-06-29
Residents of the regional capital must hand over all digital devices by the end of July as part of an ‘anti-terror’ operation.
2017-06-29
The former aide to a late, ousted Chinese premier calls on President Xi Jinping to grant an amnesty to the terminally ill jailed Nobel laureate.
2017-06-28
He asks for new legislation banning all political activity by former CNRP president Sam Rainsy.
2017-06-28
The three reporters will go on trial on July 10 for covering an event organized by an ethnic militia.
2017-06-28
High school and older students now irrigate crops for hours each morning before school begins.
2017-06-28
The protesters, who include Occupy Central leaders Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, call for the immediate release of Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and full democracy for Hong Kong.
2017-06-28
Bao Tong, former aide to late ousted premier Zhao Ziyang, says the government withheld Liu's diagnosis 'deliberately' until his cancer was inoperable.
2017-06-28
Chinese writer and democracy activist Liu, 61, is currently being treated at a hospital in Liaoning's provincial capital Shenyang, his lawyer told RFA, following a diagnosis of late-stage liver cancer little more than a month ago. Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" in a decision that infuriated Beijing, which says he has broken Chinese law.
2017-06-27
The group says police are intimidating them after they called for the release of a fellow monk.
2017-06-27
The reporters are being detained for ‘having connections’ to an ethnic armed group considered by the state to be a terrorist organization.
2017-06-27
State parliament speaker calls on lawmakers and the Rakhine government to work together to ensure the area’s safety.
2017-06-27
The US cites China’s complicity in North Korean forced labor as a reason for its downgrade.
2017-06-27
Former negotiator with North Korea says gestures to Pyongyang to 'improve the atmosphere' could cause the U.S. and its allies to lose sight of their goal.
2017-06-27
Bo has been granted medical parole following a diagnosis at a fairly early stage, in a chilling contrast with the treatment meted out to Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.
2017-06-27
Activists say the authorities must have been aware of Liu Xiaobo's illness much earlier than they claim.
