Vietnamese activist sentenced to 3 years in prison
Updated Sept. 28, 2023, 01:05 am ET. A Vietnamese court sentenced climate activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong to three years in prison for tax evasion...
Month : September 2023
Authorities arrest Tibetan man twice for possessing Dalai Lama photo
Chinese authorities have arrested a Tibetan man for a second time for being in possession of a photo of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the...
Mainland activist jailed in Hong Kong tested crackdown ‘red lines’
Zeng Yuxuan, a doctoral student from mainland China found in possession of posters depicting the “Pillar of Shame” sculpture commemorating the Tiananmen massacre, was recently...
North Korea to expel US soldier amid icy relations with Washington
North Korea is set to deport a U.S. soldier who illegally crossed into its territory from South Korea, a move indicative of Pyongyang’s attempt to...
Koreas trade barbs at UN as the North threatens nuclear war
The two Koreas traded barbs at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with the North threatening a potential nuclear catastrophe in the Korean Peninsula and...
Taiwanese businessman jailed over ‘Go Hong Kong!’ protest slogan
Taiwanese businessman Lee Meng-chu, who disappeared in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in August 2019 at the height of the Hong Kong protest movement,...
Did a US official deny the Chinese balloon’s spying activities?
A claim has been shared in Chinese-language social media posts that the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley denied the intelligence gathering capabilities of...
Clean energy growth is keeping the 1.5 C target alive, IEA says
Significant growth in clean energy technologies, like solar panels and electric vehicles, has helped keep viable the target to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees...
Vietnam music teacher loses appeal against 8-year sentence
Updated Sept. 25, 2023, 11:52 p.m. ET. In an appeal that only lasted two hours, the High People’s Court in Vietnam’s Dak Lak province on...
India plans to extend fence along Myanmar border
India plans to begin installing an additional 70 kilometers (44 miles) of border fencing over concerns about illegal immigrants entering Manipur state from neighboring Myanmar...
