Story Archive
2018-04-20
Captain Moe Yan Naing testifies that police Brigadier General Tin Ko Ko ordered officers to entrap the two reporters.
2018-04-20
Pollution from discarded bags and bottles continues to plague Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar as they prepare for this year’s Earth Day.
2018-04-20
The villagers demanded the release of 14 people detained as part of earlier protests.
2018-04-20
Annual report finds worsening repression in Tibet and Xinjiang and arbitrary arrests of Cambodian politicians.
2018-04-20
The State Department calls on Beijing to release those arbitrarily detained in the region.
2018-04-20
Yu Wensheng's case now looks set to proceed to trial, as his wife tries to transfer funds to him in detention.
2018-04-20
The ban is a 'symbolic measure' aimed at creating a more ecologically aware China, the country's environment ministry says.
2018-04-19
A Catholic aid worker says expectant and nursing mothers, as well as many elderly villagers, are among those stranded in a war zone.
2018-04-19
But Rohingyas maintain that they shouldn’t need the cards, because their forefathers were citizens.
2018-04-19
Exile observers say the centers also help ‘deal with’ deaths in detention.
2018-04-19
State-owned companies overseas and China-based campuses of overseas universities also host Communist Party members and cells.
2018-04-19
The plant could not likely obtain material necessary for its operations under sanctions supported by China, a source says.
2018-04-19
A prominent professor was besieged by angry students after a woman's post accusing him of sexually harassing her was deleted by government censors.
2018-04-18
A government spokesman calls victims’ testimony that they were raped by the army a 'baseless accusation.'
2018-04-18
Seven agencies are tracking possible ARSA activities at refugee camps in Bangladesh, police source says.
2018-04-18
Observers say the personnel will intimidate voters and question whether they’ll be trained adequately.
2018-04-18
The Kachin Women’s Peace Network says families hiding in the jungles of Tanaing township are in need of food.
2018-04-18
The nation meets eligibility criteria for the first time since it was added to the list in 1971.
2018-04-18
Meetings with a Chinese embassy official in Poland and a journalist in Sweden were unconnected with intelligence work, he says.
2018-04-18
The Higher People's Court in the northern city of Tianjin upholds the original verdict and sentence handed down in December.
2018-04-18
The detentions come amid a renewed crackdown on civil groups from the civil affairs ministry in Beijing.
2018-04-17
New president Win Myint grants amnesty to prisoners and reiterates his main priorities for the coming year.
2018-04-17
Local Tibetans lose land they have farmed for generations, with compensation paid at below-market rates.
2018-04-17
A report by the Mekong River Commission found that the river would lose 900,000 tons of fish biomass by 2040.
2018-04-17
A young Lao woman recounts her abuse as a trafficked bride in China.
2018-04-17
Beijing has repeated called for a "political solution" to the Syrian crisis, but has vetoed numerous Security Council measures aimed at addressing the conflict - including an investigation of war crimes in the country.
2018-04-17
Authorities in Beijing are stepping up surveillance of activists in the capital this year, as the family of Hu Yaobang pays their respects at his graveside.
2018-04-17
Former student protest leader Joshua Wong applies for a judicial review of the decision, which officials say is in keeping with the city's mini-constitution.
2018-04-16
New homes are being built for them in accordance with recommendations by a former commission led by ex-U.N. chief Kofi Annan.
2018-04-16
Provincial authorities say the school may not charge the fees, but do nothing to stop the collection.
