Story Archive
2020-08-31
'For Tibetans, Buddhism is more important than Communism,' Tibet's exile political leader Sikyong Lobsang Sangay says.
2020-08-31
Vietnam has a documented history of tension with neighboring China over oil exploration in the South China Sea.
2020-08-31
Halmurat Ghopur is being held under a sentence of death, suspended for two years, following accusations of anti-state activity.
2020-08-31
Red tape stymies attempt by Trinh’s father to meet his second detained son.
2020-08-31
Crowds gather near Prince Edward MTR to mark the anniversary of attacks on train passengers by riot police on Aug. 31, 2019.
2020-08-31
Authorities remove Mongolian-language materials from stores and shut down ethnic Mongolians' social media groups.
2020-08-31
Philippines will consider following U.S. lead in blacklisting Chinese firms, the Filipino foreign secretary says.
2020-08-31
Police in Hanoi tell concerned father to petition police in Hoa Binh province, which turned him away two days earlier.
2020-08-31
Officials cut access nearly a year ago after about 200,000 marked anniversary of Myanmar exodus.
2020-08-28
Community leaders back the testimonies of other civilians who were detained by the soldiers along with the trio.
2020-08-28
The displaced civilians are in a camp controlled by the Kachin Independence Army, which is at war with the national army.
2020-08-28
The women say none of them had political convictions, but were sentenced nonetheless.
2020-08-28
Activists Sombath Somphone, Od Sayavong and others are remembered, but their cases have been ignored by communist authorities.
2020-08-28
Critics say the law would blame victims of sexual abuse for the way that they dress.
2020-08-28
Police also hold a mainland Chinese dissident who supported Hong Kong, and deny another visa to a foreign journalist in the city.
2020-08-28
Parents say their children will now learn Chinese from the first year of elementary school rather than waiting until third grade.
2020-08-28
Tanker moves may raise hopes for goals of Phase 1 agreement this year.
2020-08-27
A 20-month armed conflict has forced some 200,000 civilians to shelter in cramped camps.
2020-08-27
Swiss migration officials say however that no one fleeing persecution will be sent home.
2020-08-27
Residents of Sinuiju mobilized to prepare for typhoon through the night before landfall.
2020-08-27
Nine Thai anti-government activists have vanished since 2014.
2020-08-27
The Pentagon called the test "the latest in a long string of PRC actions to assert unlawful maritime claims and disadvantage its Southeast Asian neighbors in the South China Sea."
2020-08-27
Critics call the new map ‘illegal’ and demand that the border is redrawn.
2020-08-27
Ten former internees, some of whom had successful businesses, now make half of what their coworkers earn.
2020-08-27
Hunger strikes are often the last resort for political offenders in Vietnam being pressured to confess their 'guilt,' one former prisoner says.
2020-08-27
Sources say the protesters had planned to seek political asylum on the democratic island of Taiwan.
2020-08-27
Citizenship denial, travel curbs cloud medical school dreams of Muhammad Ayaz.
2020-08-26
The billboards will be seen by millions of people during the two weeks they remain in place, the advocacy group Free Tibet says.
2020-08-26
Government says shoot-on-sight order for all who go within 1 km of the border is aimed at preventing COVID-19.
2020-08-26
Experts say a program covering 12 percent of Cambodia’s land area brings conflicts, deforestation and economic waste.
