Story Archive
2016-02-17
The meeting comes after reports that Senior General Min Aung Hlaing secured his position for another five-year term.
2016-02-17
A former prisoner of conscience in Vietnam makes an online public appeal for end to police harassment of him and his family.
2016-02-17
They are conducting prayers in their homes and through a mobile text and messaging service, despite efforts by authorities to prevent such activities.
2016-02-17
Members of the academic activist group Scholarism wants to field at least one candidate in elections to the city's legislative body in September.
2016-02-17
The new rules bar foreign-invested companies from publishing online media, games and other creative content.
2016-02-16
Meeting in California highlights the balance Southeast Asian leaders try to strike between Washington and Beijing in the region.
2016-02-16
Expelled Swiss NGO expert urges donors to grasp how repression in Laos stymies development.
2016-02-16
New U.S. legislation raises the level of unilateral sanctions on North Korea to those applied to Iran, key proponent says.
2016-02-16
They have reached a temporary agreement with the firms not to block their trucks from passing on roads to sites where they dump soil waste.
2016-02-16
Lawyer: Adem Karadag claimed he was tortured to gain confession.
2016-02-16
China is also holding an ever-increasing number of rights activists on serious political charges like subversion.
2016-02-16
Lee Bo, manager of Causeway Bay Books, is reported facing charges of "blackmail" after his mysterious transfer across the border.
2016-02-15
While official media hit out at the move as "rash" and "provocative," rights activists welcome international support for China's jailed Nobel laureate.
2016-02-15
Academics say there are close parallels with the "Star Ferry" riots under British rule 50 years ago.
2016-02-12
Tibetans now join Han Chinese in taking rare fish from scenic Qinghai Lake, environmental activists say.