Story Archive
2019-10-31
Sam Rainsy vows to carry through plan to return from four years of exile on Nov. 9.
2019-10-31
Officials call the sleeping arrangements ‘normal’ and a way to ‘promote ethnic unity.’
2019-10-31
Phan Van Loi gets five years in prison for illegally sending workers abroad.
2019-10-31
Protesters take to the streets in a variety of costumes to protest a mask ban enacted under colonial-era emergency powers.
2019-10-31
Soldiers reportedly stabbed and beat two of escapees during interrogations.
2019-10-31
War hurts farming, fishing, border trade, and tourism, the pillars of the Rakhine economy.
2019-10-31
China’s Communist Party closed high-level meetings Thursday with a statement praising the leadership of President Xi Jinping. China recently abolished presidential term limits, meaning Xi is serving an indefinite term as president. For some, lifetime rule for Xi is a Halloween nightmare.
2019-10-31
The fourth plenary session of the 19th party congress breaks no new ground, but will likely herald further centralization of power in Xi's hands, analysts say.
2019-10-30
Guarantors whose guests violate terms of their entry to Tibet face demotion or dismissal from their jobs, one source says.
2019-10-30
Sam Bopha had been detained following a ‘domestic abuse’ complaint her brother said was politically motivated.
2019-10-30
Heavy reliance on coal in recipient countries runs against Xi Jinping pledge.
2019-10-30
The countries slammed mass detentions, restriction of rights, and surveillance measures.
2019-10-30
The central provinces that sent most of the Vietnamese found in a London truck have a history of labor exports, legal and illegal.
2019-10-30
Critics see another blow to freedom of expression in a country struggling to shed its dictatorial past.
2019-10-30
The urban rail network will use social credit principles to decide who needs to submit to more detailed security checks.