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Reforms may not be possible until Myanmar's new parliament takes its seat next year, though.

Women’s groups demand that tribunal’s transparency apply to such crimes in other areas of the country.

‘Prisoner 00’ witnessed human rights abuses and crimes against humanity behind bars.

The students are convicted of 'rioting' after being arrested defending their campus from an assault by riot police, who fired 1,000 rounds of tear gas in a ...

“We’re not sure whether they’ll pay us or not,” says one resident displaced by the US $6 billion project.

Indonesian officials have been insisting that the Chinese vessel has committed no violation and that all foreign ships are allowed to pass through the Natuna ...

An exact date for the management takeover of humanitarian activities on the island has not been set.

“I’m dismayed that my own government is harassing – and I consider it illegally harassing – individuals for no cause,” said oceanographer Walker Orson Smith.

Commentators say the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping is pirating the term to boost its international image.

Han Chinese youths are paired with Uyghur children in the latest forced assimilation program.

The government is entitled to 60 percent of the harvest, but yields were lower this year.

Dozens of assailants mounted the attack, the deadliest in Rohingya camps in years.

Reports of the death come as details emerge on the sentence length of another detained poet.

The closed circle election puts in place an electoral system where no genuine political opposition can exist.

AUKUS -- a new trilateral security partnership among Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. -- has left some friends and foes of the trio fuming. In a deal that ...

The group mobilized a mass march amid a typhoon warning on May 21, 1989 to show solidarity with the student-led protests on Tiananmen Square.

Christians in rural areas of Laos remain subject to discrimination at the hands of local authorities despite protection under national law.

Australia “is a strong proponent of a rules-based maritime order," said Canberra's ambassador to ASEAN, Will Nankervis.

Police say snacks and personal items stored for donation to prisoners are intended to incite 'hatred' of the government.

The homegrown vaccine rollout hit a snag due to insufficient efficacy data.

Pastor Cung Biak Hum, 31, was shot and killed when he ran to put out fires set by government soldiers during an attack in Chin state’s Thantlang town.

Her statement follows rumors she disapproved of a declaration of war by the shadow government.

Political analysts urge wariness about promises from Hun Sen.

Turkey’s travel ban on World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa had been lifted this month.

Chang Weiping is subjected to cruel and degrading treatment by state security police in Shaanxi, an overseas rights group says.

The construction of a high-voltage border fence between China's Guangxi region and Vietnam creates ill-feeling.

#MeToo activist and journalist Sophia Huang had been due to begin a degree at the University of Sussex after being awarded a Chevening Scholarship.

The group says it has already begun 'voluntary liquidation,' the latest in a line of civil society groups to dissolve after political denunciation and police ...

Malaysia and Indonesia have expressed alarm over nuclear submarines operating in regional waters, however.

Farmers say exports of the tropical fruit to Thailand and China have dried up during the COVID-19 pandemic.