Story Archive
2020-09-19
The United Wa State Army, the country's most powerful ethnic army, opens a four-year military academy.
2020-09-19
All in all, I estimate there are between 17,000 and 20,000 new IDPs," says a local relief worker.
2020-09-18
The move is an attempt by China to create a climate of fear among Tibetans as tensions rise on the India-China border, one source says.
2020-09-18
Mun Chol Myong is wanted on charges of money laundering and violating sanctions by supplying luxury goods to Pyongyang.
2020-09-18
In one video, Miradil Hesen discusses how his mother was subjected to forced sterilization in Xinjiang.
2020-09-18
Le Van Hai held for two months after complaining his home was confiscated for wastewater treatment plant.
2020-09-18
Illegal fishing has overtaken counter-narcotics and anti-piracy as the most important global maritime security priority, the US Coast Guard says.
2020-09-18
Reports of human rights abuses and a possible Chinese military presence in Cambodia are unfounded, Tea Banh says.
2020-09-18
Edited map replaced version showing Spratlys and Paracels on embassy’s Facebook page,
2020-09-18
A local resident confirms a report in a South Korean newspaper about China's 'education for national unity.'
2020-09-18
Retail sales rose for first time this year, but imports continued to sag.
2020-09-18
Huang Qi is allowed a 30-minute conversation with his mother Pu Wenqing, who has untreatable lung cancer.
2020-09-18
Strongman Hun Sen -- who said in June that he is grooming his eldest son, Hun Manet, 42, to take over leadership of Cambodia -- has had a wide range of young political, labor and environmental activists detained in recent weeks after protests over dire economic prospects, corrupt land deals, and a border dispute with Vietnam.
2020-09-17
Many are killed in gunfights when Rohingya drug smugglers are confronted by police, Bangladeshi officials say.
2020-09-17
The three countries together sent a note to the UN, following in the footsteps of Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the US.
2020-09-17
Inspections of local ruling party offices make people nervous, but some say the order will merely generate bribes.
2020-09-17
Kea Sokun and Long Puthera had released songs criticizing Prime Minister Hun Sen's handling of border issues and the economy.
2020-09-17
An earlier, lighter wave of the pandemic mainly killed elderly patients with other ailments.
2020-09-17
The US meanwhile pushes for the rule of law and the sovereignty of member states in the disputed region.
2020-09-17
The city's mass testing program took samples from 1.8 million people but has been surrounded by controversy.
2020-09-17
The family of Cheng Tsz-Ho, 18, say he is better suited to studying and having fun than a lifetime of imprisonment in China.
2020-09-17
US Under Secretary of State Keith Krach will attend a memorial service for former president Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan's first directly elected leader.
2020-09-16
Children account for 42 deaths and about one in four civilians injured in the 21-month-old conflict.
2020-09-16
The move brings the US more into line with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which it has still not ratified.
2020-09-16
The US Treasury sanctioned UDG for abusing human rights and corruption in the Dara Sakor project.
2020-09-16
Britain has not done nearly enough to help stop Beijing's abuses in Xinjiang, one parliamentarian says.
2020-09-16
Those held in the No. 4 Training Center are made to work at gravel and sock factories for no pay.
2020-09-16
A new directive sets out steps that will strengthen ruling Chinese Communist Party control over private enterprises and entrepreneurs.
2020-09-16
US citizens risk arbitrary arrest under a draconian new law imposed by the ruling Chinese Communist Party since July, the State Department warns.
2020-09-16
Where exactly Chen’s money came from is unclear – as is how he transformed from a 27-year-old nobody into one of Cambodia’s most successful tycoons in just six years.
