Four students imprisoned for protesting the ruling military junta have been held in solitary confinement and beaten nearly every day by authorities since being transferred to central Myanmar’s Bago region less than two weeks ago, their relatives and so…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. enacted the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in December 2021 to strengthen an existing ban on the importation of goods made wholly or in part with forced labor from China’s Xinjiang region. The law, which took effect on June 21, requires U….
Continue ReadingWhile citizens in North Korea are nearly starving in the face of food price hikes and shortages, the country’s elite are feasting on one of the country’s most expensive delicacies: dog meat.
Meat of any kind is a rarity in the North Korean diet these d…
Indonesia’s president will visit China next week where he and his Chinese counterpart will discuss the G20 summit later this year, Beijing said Thursday, as Jakarta performs a tricky balancing act amid rifts between the West and Russia over the Ukraine…
Continue ReadingWorkers at test centers in northeastern China have been striking over unpaid wages in a nationwide COVID-19 testing industry that has expanded beyond far beyond its sources of funding.
Unverified photos circulating on social media showed test centers i…
Prison authorities in northwestern China’s Qinghai province this week released two Tibetan men jailed three years ago for land-rights activism, with the move following the release earlier this year of four others jailed on the same charge, Tibetan sour…
Continue ReadingAuthorities in Hong Kong are planning a new law regulating cybercrime, in a move that could lay the groundwork for China-style censorship of the city’s internet.
The law, which is currently at the consultation stage via the city’s Law Reform Commission…
