Police in Vietnam’s Dak Lak province detain religious rights campaigner
The police in Dak Lak province detained religious freedom campaigner Y An Hdrue and a fellow worshiper as they tried to attend a Christmas service...
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Rohingya man recounts nightmare of being adrift at sea
Muhammad Taher knew he was risking his life when he decided to leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh and board a decrepit-looking boat to...
Bodies left in homes as funeral parlors seek extra staff amid COVID-19 onslaught
Bodies were piling up in people’s homes awaiting cremation across China, as funeral homes recruited more staff to transport the dead amid a nationwide outbreak...
Second boatload of Rohingya arrives in Indonesia in as many days
About 185 gaunt and bone-tired Rohingya refugees landed on the coast of Pidie regency in Indonesia’s Aceh province Monday, police said, as reports emerged that...
China gives up reporting COVID-19 figures as virus rips through population
China’s National Health Commission has announced it will no longer be publishing daily COVID-19 infection figures, as the virus rips through the population with the...
‘We’re all fleeing persecution’: Chinese asylum-seekers head to US via Darién Gap
It’s morning in the Colombian port town of Necoclí, and a large group of Chinese nationals, including three children and a woman with a baby,...
Limited TikTok ban could augur sweeping changes
UPDATED AT 2:44 p.m. ET ON 12-23-2022 A new ban on TikTok’s use on U.S. government devices may only be the start of congressional prohibitions...
China flies 71 warplanes into Taiwan’s ADIZ in one day
China sent a record 71 warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone and held a live-fire exercise around the island on Sunday in an apparent...
Guangzhou police deny visit to mother of detained anti-lockdown protester
Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou are denying the mother of a rights activist detained after an anti-lockdown protest permission to meet with...
Boat with ‘dehydrated and exhausted’ Rohingya refugees lands in Indonesia
Dozens of “dehydrated and exhausted” Rohingya refugees – all males – landed on the coast of Aceh Besar regency in Indonesia on Christmas Sunday after...
