Overseas activists have vowed to keep up their campaign for Hong Kong’s promised rights and freedoms amid international condemnation of the city’s second national security law, which critics say will likely widen an ongoing crackdown on dissent when it…
Police arrested a 24-year-old Lao man for posting a video clip on Facebook, criticizing officers in a northern province for demanding bribes from travelers passing through a checkpoint near the Chinese border.
After his arrest, police released a video …
After Beijing imposed the draconian National Security Law for Hong Kong in 2020, the UK, Canada and Australia responded by opening “lifeboat schemes,” or special immigration pathways, for Hong Kongers. Article 23, the latest tightening of the scr…
Updated March 20, 2024, 09:32 p.m. ET.
Two ethnic Khmer Krom activists who were arrested last year on suspicion of distributing books about indigenous peoples’ rights were sentenced to prison on Wednesday by a Vietnamese court.
Nearly 1.3-million Khmer…
Prabowo Subianto, the former Indonesian general whose human rights record has faced scrutiny, will take over as leader of his country after clinching victory in the presidential election and securing 96.2 million votes, according to official results un…
A junta court-ordered auction of jailed democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s historic home in Myanmar’s Yangon region concluded with no buyers, sources said Wednesday, after the bidding price was set at more than 300 billion kyats, or about US$90 million….
Chinese authorities are collecting genetic data from the country’s Muslim Uyghur minority as part of a forced organ-transplant program marketed to Muslim medical tourists from Gulf states, experts told a U.S. congressional committee hearing on Wednesda…
A 16-year-old Cambodian girl who said she was tricked by job brokers, sold to a Chinese man who held her against her will in Zhejiang province arrived back in Cambodia on Wednesday.
“I am releasing this video to show that I have arrived in Cambodia saf…
North Koreans have been ordered to donate strips of cloth so that soldiers can wrap them around their feet to keep them warm, suggesting the government is not adequately supplying the “invincible” Korean People’s Army, residents told Radio Free Asia.
T…