Story Archive
2020-06-30
A report on a secret court-martial reveals few details on the convictions in the Gu Dar Pyin village killings.
2020-06-30
Taiwan is stepping up efforts to help Hongkongers fleeing persecution under draconian new laws.
2020-06-30
Xuan Loc Penitentiary has a reputation for mistreating and torturing inmates.
2020-06-30
Reporters Without Borders says Hun Sen’s government is in a ‘headlong rush to gag dissenting voices.’
2020-06-30
The cargo ship's crew failed to help the smaller boat's 12 crew members and two passengers, who are still missing.
2020-06-30
Beijing says it will act as a 'sharp sword' hanging over the city, ushering in an era of prosecutions brought by state security police.
2020-06-30
The standing committee of China's National People's Congress rubber-stamped draconian new security legislation for Hong Kong that bans activities deemed subversive or secessionist. The imposition of the law prompted political groups to disband and set the stage for protests in the city, as well as friction with Western countries over what is seen as a breach of China's international obligations under the 1984 arrangement governing the 1997 handover to Beijing of the former British colony, which was promised a high degree of autonomy for 50 years.
2020-06-30
Forced sterilizations and abortions targeting Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwestern China have dramatically increased in recent years, slowing Uyghur population growth rates, according to a new report by researcher Adrian Zenz, who says Beijing's policies “might be characterized as a demographic campaign of genocide.”
2020-06-30
Youth-led groups most likely to be targeted under the law, which bans "secessionist" activities, announce they will cease operating in the city.
2020-06-30
The National People’s Congress Standing Committee voted unanimously to pass a law few in Hong Kong had seen even a draft of.
2020-06-29
Workers must ride out quarantine eating only rice and kimchi.
2020-06-29
Some Lao residents welcome the move, with others saying they will 'wait and see' if anything changes.
2020-06-29
Trinh Ba Phuong invokes right to silence, refusing to cooperate with police.
2020-06-29
About 10,000 civilians have already fled Kyauktan village and nearby areas.
2020-06-29
Adrian Zenz says the measures ‘undergird a wider game plan of ethno-racial domination’ in the region.
2020-06-29
Amphibious transport dock makes a rare appearance at China’s biggest military base in the South China Sea.
2020-06-29
Tibetans say their Himalayan region’s historic role as buffer is a way toward peace.
2020-06-29
Widespread flooding in the Yangtze basin causes deaths as overflowing rivers drown streets.
2020-06-29
China looks set to impose the anti-subversion legislation ahead of the handover anniversary on July 1.
2020-06-26
Many Lao citizens see the dominant use of Chinese as a sign of China's growing economic influence in their country.
2020-06-26
Woody Island, where the dredging appears to have been underway for several weeks, includes Sansha City, China’s main administrative center in the Paracels.
2020-06-26
Uyghur and Tibetan rights groups call for international community to hold Beijing accountable.
2020-06-26
During a virtual summit, members also agree to work together on post-COVID-19 pandemic economic recovery.
2020-06-26
Residents confirm the army has been stationed among Buddhist temples in historic Mrauk-U.
2020-06-26
Delegation members spoke up when they saw things that caused them concern, though, one German diplomat says.
2020-06-26
The mostly women workers say they’ve struggled to pay for food and rent for more than three months.
2020-06-26
If convicted of murder, defendants could be given the death penalty.
2020-06-26
A Uyghur who studied abroad questions his decision not to return home amid reports of his father’s detention.
2020-06-26
Chen Siming has repeatedly commemorated the Tiananmen massacre and publicly supported the Hong Kong protest movement in recent years.
2020-06-26
COVID-19 epidemic resulted in higher domestic demand for coal.
