Story Archive
2018-08-17
Singer Nguyen Tin and activists injured after police raid his performance in a small Ho Chi Minh City coffee shop.
2018-08-17
Kim Sok was jailed for implying that the government had murdered popular pundit Kem Ley.
2018-08-17
Relief work is hampered by poor roads and shortages of manpower and farm goods following more flooding.
2018-08-17
The man’s brother says he was targeted for holding on to assets after the fund’s forced closure.
2018-08-17
Campaigners say they will continue to petition the authorities for recognition that their children were harmed by substandard vaccines, and for adequate compensation.
2018-08-17
Taiwan's defense ministry says it is entirely capable of defending itself, pointing to increased military spending.
2018-08-16
Builders of the proposed Pak Lay and Pak Beng dams say they are continuing their surveys and feasibility studies.
2018-08-16
Nonconforming fashions and hairstyles are forbidden, with youth groups sent out to force compliance.
2018-08-16
Chairperson Rosario Manalo says there will be ‘no blaming of anyone’ and ‘no finger-pointing.’
2018-08-16
Canberra is investigating tough measures against Phnom Penh in response to a crackdown by Hun Sen.
2018-08-16
Le Dinh Luong had written Facebook postings protesting a toxic waste spill and calling for a boycott of parliamentary elections.
2018-08-16
Chen is accused of "fraud" and running an "illegal business," but supporters say he angered powerful officials with his reporting.
2018-08-16
Yu Wensheng's indictment was issued last month, but his family wasn't informed, amid a dispute over the validity of his defense team.
2018-08-16
Date has not been set for trial of Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong to resume.
2018-08-15
The chairman of Magwe’s NLD party says that people there have been defaming Aung San Suu Kyi in various ways.
2018-08-15
Police in Lithang pay frequent unannounced visits to Tibetan homes to search for photos of the exiled spiritual leader.
2018-08-15
CCTV footage appears to show Xaysana Yotsavath’s killers, but authorities have yet to identify them.
2018-08-15
Chinese authorities have detained as many as 1 million Uyghurs in internment camps in western China’s Xinjiang region. China has denied that Uyghurs are detained arbitrarily or that “re-education centers” exist. Beginning in April 2017, Uyghurs accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” ideas have been jailed or detained in political “re-education camps” throughout the Xinjiang region.
2018-08-15
The abbot of Longquan Temple in Beijing steps down after allegations of repeated sexual assaults and harassment of his female followers.
2018-08-15
The move comes amid an ongoing row over freedom of expression and political calls for independence in the former British colony of Hong Kong.
2018-08-14
Nguyen Ngoc Vinh refused to write a ‘self-criticism’ after penning an article deemed divisive.
2018-08-14
They say that the MoU signed by the government and two UN agencies may not be the answer.
2018-08-14
Namkha Jam had been jailed for sharing information and images of self-immolation protests with outside contacts.
2018-08-14
Human Rights Watch calls her conviction ‘politically motivated’ and based on ‘fabricated’ charges.
2018-08-14
Sun Wenguang says an online post, including photograph, claiming the couple went on vacation was 'fake.'
2018-08-14
The Hong Kong government calls Chan Ho-tin's speech to the Foreign Correspondents' Club ‘inappropriate and unacceptable.’
2018-08-14
Ge Jueping is awaiting trial for "subversion" after supporting a victim of forced evictions in Suzhou.
2018-08-14
His tenants have been told to go back to Xinjiang, where authorities will be told of their 'situation," a police source says.
2018-08-13
But government efforts to spark a baby boom are failing because many couples are choosing not to have more children.
2018-08-13
Instead, they will be called 'displaced persons from Rakhine state,' a Bangladeshi official says.
