Story Archive
2017-12-19
The Kazakhs are held under administrative detention for possessing material deemed to incite ethnic hatred and promote terrorism, officials say.
2017-12-18
Human Rights Watch reports that the Myanmar military is continuing to destroy Muslim homes in northern Rakhine state.
2017-12-18
Local authorities and police stand by during the attack, refusing to intervene.
2017-12-18
NLD spokesman Win Htein says it’s obvious that the charges against the Reuters journalists had been planned.
2017-12-18
A CNRP official says the tactic is meant to ‘defuse international pressure’ amid a political crackdown.
2017-12-18
Many patients are women and girls who were raped in Myanmar.
2017-12-18
Five refugees and a suspected human trafficker were detained, police say.
2017-12-18
Countries in region are committed to upholding U.N. Security Council resolutions, senior American diplomat says.
2017-12-18
Prison officials refuse to provide democracy advocate Tran Anh Kim with medical care until they hear from higher-ups.
2017-12-18
Government officials are sent to live in the homes of ethnic minority families for a week, as Uyghur police officers are subjected to additional security checks.
2017-12-18
Meanwhile, an France-based Chinese artist and his French wife are believed detained after exhibiting a painting in Shenzhen referencing late political prisoner Liu Xiaobo.
2017-12-15
The ceremony marks the fifth anniversary of the abduction of Sombath Somphone.
2017-12-15
He says he has no overseas assets to freeze and no intention of traveling to the US.
2017-12-15
Yangon police say that a ‘group of authorities’ took the Reuters journalists away from the Htauk Kyant Police Station.
2017-12-15
Move is seen as an effort to make it easier to import or smuggle goods from China as sanctions bite.
