Illegal jade mining is rampant in Myanmar’s Kachin state thanks to an “understanding” between miners and local authorities, according to a lawmaker from the area’s Hpakant township, and has continued despite intensified fighting between the military an…

A hydropower project set to be built in Laos is raising concerns in next-door Thailand, with government officials and environmental experts voicing alarm over forced relocations, impacts on fish stocks and security along the two countries’ shared borde…

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo broke ground Tuesday on a U.S. $129-billion “green” industrial estate on Borneo to be built with investments from China and the United Arab Emirates and electrified by a Chinese-funded hydropower plant.
When fi…

A prominent Chinese rights attorney believed detained after he planned to attend an event on Human Rights Day is once more being subjected to torture and mistreatment in detention, according to one of his friends.
Tang Jitian has been incommunicado sin…

China on Tuesday slapped an entry ban on four members of a U.S. federal commission on religious freedom, in retaliation for U.S. sanctions on its officials over rights abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong.
Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian name…