Story Archive
2020-02-24
Police wore plainclothes to arrest students on campus of Yangon University.
2020-02-24
But experts say the measures are short-term fixes that do not address lasting impacts.
2020-02-24
Frontline reporting, whether by state-approved journalists or citizen reporters, is being stamped out by the powers that be.
2020-02-24
A Chinese consulate-sponsored exhibit showing supposed social advances in Tibet has now been removed from a library in Queens, and will not be circulated to other branches.
2020-02-24
Unable to move without guards, many still pine for homes in their burned-out former villages.
2020-02-24
Sources say that instead of offering help, officials demand payment in advance to bring them goods.
2020-02-24
He had been held in detention or under house arrest for more than three decades for peacefully advocating for democracy and religious freedom.
2020-02-24
Hundreds of cases are reported in the capital city, including dozens of front line medical workers.
2020-02-21
Uyghurs and rights groups say conditions are ripe for concrete steps over internment camps.
2020-02-21
The attack followed threatening phone calls and an approach by a stranger warning her husband to 'keep quiet,' Tursunay Ziyawudun says.
2020-02-21
Rights experts say the Tatmadaw cannot be trusted to investigate and try its own men.
2020-02-21
New Phougnoi Dam would affect 88 villages in seven districts in Champassak province.
2020-02-21
COVID-19 is indirectly affecting the construction of a high-speed railway and a hydropower project, officials say.
2020-02-21
Six human traffickers are now under arrest in Vietnam, with a seventh being sought in China, in a case in which 39 migrant workers were found suffocated last year in an abandoned truck in Britain.
2020-02-21
Residents suspicious because hospitals usually don't handle cremation.
2020-02-21
Protesters hold up placards saying 'never forgive, never forget," to mark police inaction over a June 21, 2019 mob attack on train passengers and passers-by.
2020-02-21
The ruling Chinese Communist Party fires and sanctions prison officials, but a lawyer says the authorities are trying to 'appease public opinion.'
2020-02-20
Thai Srey Neang had been warned against making further posts, and had broken a promise to stop, police say.
2020-02-20
China, ASEAN Ministers Hold Emergency meeting in Laos on COVID-19.
2020-02-20
Sources on the ground say there is a high mortality rate among patients who become seriously or critically ill with COVID-19.
2020-02-20
Rights activists say escape attempts will continue until the root causes of the Rohingya exodus are addressed.
2020-02-20
Du Thi Thanh, wife of slain village leader Le Dinh Kinh, collapsed in a faint after police insisted she sign a statement saying she had refused to cooperate with them.
2020-02-20
The Chinese nationals had sought asylum citing persecution, but were designated security concerns.
2020-02-20
Bureau of Immigration officers allegedly took bribes to allow Chinese gaming workers in.
2020-02-20
A rice industry spokesman says Hong Kong gets most of its rice from Thailand and Vietnam, not virus-hit mainland China.
2020-02-20
Xayaburi dam, Laos’ first mainstream Mekong hydropower project, churns up trouble for Thai villagers.
2020-02-19
Local officials confirm that one member of a Uyghur family of four in Ghulja is infected.
2020-02-19
Pressure from the international community has done little to force change in Vietnam, they said.
2020-02-19
Confirmed cases have now been moved to Sichuan's Dartsedo county for medical treatment, local sources say.
2020-02-19
He had ordered authorities to ‘educate’ women who wear ‘revealing’ clothing on the platform.
