Story Archive
2018-12-31
China is acting out of self-interest in the name of the country’s Belt and Road Initiative, one party chairman says.
2018-12-31
Rights groups highlight incommunicado detention, the risk of torture, and the mass incarceration of Muslims in camps as areas of particular concern.
2018-12-31
3000 victims of July dam burst at risk as rice stocks deplete in Sanamxay district.
2018-12-31
Kem Sokha says political divisions are holding the country back from attaining peace and progress.
2018-12-31
More than 100 riot police descend on three independently run mosques in Yunnan's Weishan county, clashing with local Muslims who tried to resist.
2018-12-28
Region faces air and water pollution, deforestation, illegal fishing, wildlife trafficking and a growing plastic trash crisis.
2018-12-28
'Laos doesn't pay in cash,' one source says as defense ties between the two countries grow.
2018-12-28
Information stolen from computer in South Korean resettlement center.
2018-12-28
The move comes after the armed forces said it will take legal action against news outlets that fail to confirm information.
2018-12-28
They say that chemical waste from the operations has polluted water resources, killed livestock, and damaged farmland.
2018-12-28
Regime's openness about shortcomings seen as departure from previous eras.
2018-12-28
Huynh Truong Ca had posted online articles and livestreamed videos calling for change in one-party communist Vietnam.
2018-12-28
Wang Wentian dismisses concerns over China-Cambodia ties leading to further democratic rollbacks.
2018-12-28
Students are targeted after protesting the 'reorganization' of their group by school authorities, a Maoist group says.
2018-12-28
Li Wenzu is prevented by security guards from approaching the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, where she had hoped to make a complaint.
2018-12-28
Authorities are failing to stop corruption in the KPA as officers struggle on low salaries.
2018-12-28
A steep drop in November adds to China's economic and trade war concerns.
2018-12-27
An analyst and a media watchdog group warn that the money may have come from the national budget.
2018-12-27
They say government soldiers are questioning residents accused of supporting the rebel Arakan Army.
2018-12-27
Fruit farmers and seafood exporters say they have lost significant amounts of money because of the closure.
2018-12-27
The foreign affairs minister for the democratic island of Taiwan talks about the island's independent status as 'a reality that can't be erased.'
2018-12-27
Sun Lin retweeted a number of social media posts judged by the authorities to be subversive, as well as shouting 'down with the Communist Party' at a local meeting.
2018-12-26
Meanwhile, Christians living in remote areas of the country are harassed and expelled from their homes by local officials.
2018-12-26
The armed forces will also relinquish control of the General Administration Department, the country’s ‘administrative backbone.’
2018-12-26
Hun Sen says self-exiled CNRP leader Sam Rainsy belongs behind bars.
2018-12-26
No more than a hundred Tibetans coming from China are seen at a two-week series of teachings given in Bodhgaya, India.
2018-12-26
The Brotherhood for Democracy member’s sentence was upheld in a heavily guarded, three-hour trial.
2018-12-26
Wu Yuhua and her husband, Yang Chong, are close to getting asylum elsewhere, lawyer says.
2018-12-26
The detention of Qiu Zhanxuan comes amid a nationwide crackdown on left-wing students who supported a Shenzhen labor movement.
2018-12-26
Fellow activists say Wang Quanzhang refused to plead guilty.