Story Archive
2020-06-04
Operation Yellowbird successfully enabled 400 pro-democracy Chinese activists to escape to free countries through Hong between 1989 and 1997, when Beijing assumed sovereignty over the British colony.
2020-06-04
The graveyard is the latest of dozens in the region that have been razed in recent years.
2020-06-04
The main, military-backed opposition believes the ruling party can gain advantage from delaying the start of campaigning.
2020-06-04
Mother Nature activists had planned to petition the government to give an island protected status.
2020-06-04
Myanmar's military declines to confirm numbers, though, adding that ethnic troops sometimes dress as civilians.
2020-06-04
Crowds gradually fill up Victoria Park in spite of a strong police presence and fences aimed at keeping them out.
2020-06-04
The man illegally entered Rakhine state from a refugee camp in neighboring Bangladesh with his family.
2020-06-04
A feminist and rights activist born after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre talks about its impact on her, growing up in China.
2020-06-03
Twelve countries, both dictatorships and democracies, had stifled debate in the name of fighting fake news.
2020-06-03
Foreign secretary praises President Duterte for keeping nation safe through alliance with Washington.
2020-06-03
He says bipartisan support in Congress will ‘make these things possible.’
2020-06-03
Chen Yunfei has been incommunicado since taking part in a public commemoration of the massacre, which are banned by the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2020-06-03
Other administrators say they are considering resigning to avoid arbitrary arrest.
2020-06-03
“In asserting such vast maritime claims in the South China Sea, China purports to restrict the rights and freedoms, including the navigational rights and freedoms, enjoyed by all States,” the note read.
2020-06-03
The victims' group says they are owed a detailed account of the decisions leading up to the massacre.
2020-06-03
About 1 million people have been stranded in Thailand since COVID-19 stalled the economy.
2020-06-02
Cases spike as the country records 2,911 new infections.
2020-06-02
Sarcastic phrase becomes common gibe among trendy North Korean people.
2020-06-02
Beijing has in recent years skirted international law with its sweeping claims and artificial island-building and used strong-arm tactics to bully the vessels of other claimants.
2020-06-02
The government military vows instead to retaliate for recent attacks on troops in Rakhine state.
2020-06-02
Police say they are protecting community health, but the Tibetans claim discrimination since other businesses can open.
2020-06-02
Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened arrests after the opposition urged a delay of debt payments amid the outbreak.
2020-06-02
The retired doctor disappeared days after her sister spoke out against abuses in Xinjiang.
2020-06-02
Manila says it is holding off for six months its plan to pull out of the 1999 Visiting Forces Agreement.
2020-06-02
Le Dinh Chuc, son of slain Dong Tam village elder Le Dinh Kinh, is recovering from injuries suffered in the Jan. 9 police assault, his lawyer says.
2020-06-02
Chief executive Carrie Lam says Hong Kong will retain its freedoms, but an opinion poll shows many residents think its special status is a thing of the past.
2020-06-02
Hu Weifeng, a colleague of whistleblower Li Wenliang, is the sixth doctor to die of the virus at Wuhan Central Hospital.
2020-06-02
Some keyboard warriors go too far even for Beijing, which shut a site spreading “anti-intellectualism.”
2020-06-01
With few orders due to COVID-19, company offers financial support for workers only through the end of June.
2020-06-01
The pro-army Union Solidary Development Party and unelected military MPs say the speaker violated the constitution.
