Story Archive
2015-12-08
The move comes a month after the country’s opposition party swept widely-lauded elections.
2015-12-08
Wednesday Dec. 12, 2015 marked 40 years since the communist Pathet Lao took control of the country, a former French colony and six-century-old monarchy, and set up a socialist regime closely aligned to neighboring Vietnam.
2015-12-08
China's pollution pigeons come home to roost as awareness grows of the environmental cost of economic growth.
2015-12-08
A pre-trial meeting could mean Pu Zhiqiang's trial will follow soon, his lawyers say.
2015-12-07
Nguyen Van Dai and fellow activists were assaulted as they returned to the capital by taxi.
2015-12-07
Producer losses raise policy risks of scheme to promote use of cleaner fuel.
2015-12-07
Li Xin is seeking asylum after police forced him to spy on dissidents, lawyers and Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement.
2015-12-07
The move is part of a broadening crackdown on the unofficial labor movement amid growing strikes in the Pearl River Delta region.
2015-12-05
The meeting is seen as a crucial step forward in Myanmar's transition to multiparty democracy.
2015-12-04
They had protested Chinese crackdowns in Tibetan areas and called for the Dalai Lama's return.
2015-12-04
Soldiers' deaths in Xaysomboun Province, blamed on an anti-government group, came a week after shootings of vehicles.
2015-12-04
The move follows earlier efforts to 'modernize' the central Barkhor area in the Tibetan regional capital.
2015-12-04
President Xi Jinping announces a three-year investment program in infrastructure and agriculture on the continent.
2015-12-04
Fu Zhibin is sentenced alongside an assistant and two print workers for 'smearing' Mao Zedong and denying the legitimacy of Communist Party rule.
2015-12-03
The democracy campaigner does not meet criteria for eligibility, an official says.