China’s 50th anniversary of membership in the United Nations, celebrated this week with a speech by President Xi Jinping claiming that Beijing had “blazed a path in human rights development,” has generated more despair than hope for Tibetans and Uyghur…

A court in Vietnam Thursday sentenced Tran Quoc Khanh, an aspiring political candidate, to 6.5 years in prison for social media video streams critical of the government, the latest conviction aimed at shutting down criticism online of the  one-par…

Local authorities have moved dozens of Rohingya to new locations over security concerns after their relatives were killed in two recent attacks at camps in southeastern Bangladesh, refugee leaders and police confirmed Friday.
Forty-two people represent…

A special court in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw on Friday jailed an 80-year-old senior opposition leader for two decades for criticizing the Feb. 1 military coup that ousted the country’s elected civilian government, his family said.
The sentence handed…

China’s media regulators are clamping down on some of the country’s most popular satellite TV channels, warning them not to air too many star-studded entertainment shows, while calling for more content lauding the achievements of the ruling Chinese Com…