Congressional hearing examines Chinese repression in Tibet
During a congressional hearing Tuesday on China’s growing repression in Tibet, U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn likened Beijing’s policy to an idea from an ancient Chinese...
Month : March 2023
Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party dissolved by Myanmar’s junta
Myanmar’s military junta on Tuesday announced the dissolution of the National League for Democracy – the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi that won...
Opposition activist released after apologizing for comments about king
An opposition activist who was jailed after posting comments on Facebook about the government and Cambodia’s constitutional monarch was released on Tuesday after he apologized...
Freed Vietnamese political prisoner says guards made him work in jail without pay
When Phan Kim Khanh, a former member of President Barack Obama’s Young Southeast Asia Leaders Initiative, was serving a six-year sentence in Vietnam, he didn’t...
U.S. sanctions two people, six entities for supplying Myanmar with jet fuel
The United States Treasury Department has announced additional sanctions on Myanmar to prevent supplies of jet fuel from reaching the military in response to airstrikes...
Myanmar junta chief marks Armed Forces Day with vow to eradicate opposition
Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing marked the 78th anniversary of the country’s Armed Forces Day on Monday with a vow to “take decisive action”...
Former president Ma Ying-jeou’s trip to China undermines Taiwan government: critics
Former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou, whose opposition Kuomintang espouses closer ties with China, began a visit there on Monday with a call for peace, as...
Chinese coast guard ship chased out of Vietnam waters
A Chinese coast guard ship and a Vietnamese fisheries patrol boat apparently had a tense encounter during the weekend in the South China Sea, coming...
China’s ruling party gears up to purge ‘black sheep,’ ‘two-faced people’ from ranks
China’s ruling Communist Party has launched a nationwide disciplinary campaign that will inspect its 96 million members for loyalty to supreme leader Xi Jinping and...
Uyghurs tell Congress of gang rape, shackles and sterilization
Schoolteacher Qelbinur Sidik had taught the Mandarin language at an elementary school in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang region, for 28 years when people...
