UPDATED at 9:29 p.m. EDT on 8-31-2022
China’s repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in its western Xinjiang province “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity,” the U.N.’s human rights chief said Wednesday …

More than 5,000 civilians fled from more than 10 villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after fighting erupted Tuesday night between junta forces and the rebel Arakan Army (AA), residents told RFA.
The people, from Rathedaung township in the northwestern …

As another armed forces recruitment period in North Korea approaches, parents hope their military-age children do not get assigned to construction units where they would face years of hard labor but fewer benefits compared to other soldiers.
While the …

The clock is ticking for Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, who has said her office would try to complete a long-overdue report on rights abuses in western China’s Xinjiang region before she leaves her post today (Aug. 31)….

Residents of a village in Laos’ Oudomxay province have rejected a government offer of compensation for their farmland, which has been leased to a Thai company to build a “Smart City” in the area, saying it is too low for them to relocate.
On Aug. 25, t…

A Filipina pediatrician who advocates for children, a French eco-warrior combating pollution in Indonesia, a Cambodian trauma expert and a Japanese eye doctor will receive the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Manila…