Activists demand release of Uyghurs held in Thai immigration detention center
Raising her fist in the air, Zumretay Arkin shouted into a microphone on a quiet side street in Munich, Germany, outside the Thai consulate. “Liberty...
Month : May 2023
Damning evidence emerges in Cambodian monkey smuggling case
Hidden camera footage has emerged showing what U.S. prosecutors say is clear involvement by a senior Cambodian official in running a research monkey smuggling operation....
Marcos says Philippine military bases won’t be used to attack China
Philippine military bases where the United States has been granted expanded access are not intended to be used for offensive action against any country, President...
Bangladesh delegation with Rohingya to visit Myanmar, see repatriation preparations
Bangladesh is moving full steam ahead with a China-backed project to begin repatriating Rohingya to Myanmar, a plan that Human Rights Watch warned would put the lives...
Report: Almost 700,000 people in Myanmar have fled their homes since January
Intense fighting has caused the number of internally displaced persons in Myanmar to grow by more than 680,000 between January and April 20, according to...
UN working group issues opinion on detention of Vietnamese political prisoner
A U.N. Human Rights Council working group has issued an opinion on the case of a Vietnamese activist arrested in 2021 and sentenced to 10...
Hun Sen under fire from critics for not letting the king open SEA Games
UPDATED at 1:14 p.m. EDT on 05-04-2023 Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that he – and not Cambodia’s king – would preside over Friday’s opening...
Biden’s ‘end of regime’ warning spurs fiery response from North Korea
When U.S. President Joe Biden declared last week that any use of nuclear weapons against the United States or its allies will result in the...
Data lacking on Asia’s electricity needs, report says
Asia urgently needs to improve the transparency of its power sector data, as over half of the region’s economies lack information regarding electricity generation, a...
Rights group says Xinjiang phone search program targets Uyghurs
Police in Xinjiang have relied on a list of 50,000 multimedia files determined to be “violent and terrorist” to flag Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim...
