Story Archive
2019-02-08
Known on the streets as ice, the drug helps some users forget their misery, but addictions rise.
2019-02-08
The revelation points to the expansion of a secret system used to disperse detainees throughout the country.
2019-02-07
A new study found that more than 30,000 women and girls migrate from Myanmar’s Shan and Kachin states into China each year. Many are forced to marry Chinese men, or are trafficked as birth surrogates.
2019-02-07
Nearly 200 people from three ethnic minority groups flee their homes, fearing helicopter assaults.
2019-02-07
They denounce recent calls by dam-backer China for the suspended project to resume.
2019-02-07
The 15 men and three boys were picked up at Islamic schools in an area hit by Muslim insurgency.
2019-02-07
Angela Gui describes being approached by someone offering her a visa to visit Gui Minhai in return for her silence.
2019-02-07
Huang Xiangmo is stranded in China following the decision, and faces a 'battle' to return to the county, according to media reports.
2019-02-06
Helen Nguyen hopes to raise awareness of her husband Michael Nguyen’s case by meeting with congressmen.
2019-02-06
'We kept our border open for a long time. This time we will not open it,' foreign minister A.K. Abdul Momen says.
2019-02-06
Military MPs and the main opposition party strongly disapprove of the move.
2019-02-06
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston will visit Laos in March.
2019-02-06
Uyghurs and Kazakhs are threatened with incarceration in 're-education' camps in the northwestern region of Xinjiang if they refuse.
2019-02-06
Children who have had transplants or chemotherapy are potentially among those affected, a health expert says.
2019-02-06
Government sends teenagers to protect pine trees from hungry larvae.
2019-02-05
Yang Chong and his wife Wu Yuhua had been targeted by Chinese police for joining press freedom protests in 2015.
2019-02-05
The ruling Chinese Communist Party is part of 'global assault' on democratic norms, according to the Freedom House watchdog.
2019-02-05
Li Wenzu spent the Lunar New Year's eve shouting slogans outside the walls of the detention center where her husband is being held.
2019-02-05
Truong Duy Nhat vanishes after fleeing Vietnam to Thailand to seek political asylum.
2019-02-04
They want to return to Myanmar with safety guarantees, citizenship rights, and official recognition of their ethnic identity, some say.
2019-02-04
The Feb. 5, 1997 killings of peaceful Uyghur protesters by Chinese security forces left hundreds dead.
2019-02-04
Police never provided a search warrant or an order for Duong Thi Lanh’s arrest, her husband says.
2019-02-04
They are detained along with the couple that hosted them on suspicion of having ties to the Arakan Army.
2019-02-04
North Korean hackers aid Philippine bankers in a massive theft of funds from the Bangladesh central bank.
2019-02-04
Three paintings protesting the growing abuse of rights and freedoms in China are removed from an exhibit in North Carolina.
2019-02-04
The move comes amid a nationwide review of legal scholarship sparked by a secret complaint about the field.
2019-02-04
Doubts about official statistics cloud the government's economic decisions.
2019-02-01
The case is filed on the same day that Human Rights Watch issues a report taking the government to task for a decline in press freedom.
2019-02-01
The men are in failing health due to harsh conditions in the facility where they are being held, a local source says.
2019-02-01
His lawyer and rights groups contend that his post was protected under Cambodia’s constitution.
