East Asia

Seven Uyghur staffers from sports school in Xinjiang serving up to 5 years in prison

Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region sentenced seven Uyghur teachers at a sports school in Kashgar to jail terms of…

2 years ago

Chinese rubber company detains Laos farmer trying to sell crop outside province

Employees of a Chinese-owned rubber company in rural Laos illegally stopped a local rubber tree farmer trying to sell his…

2 years ago

Hong Kong investigative news agency FactWire shuts down, citing ‘great change.’

The Hong Kong-based investigative news agency FactWire announced its closure on Friday, the latest in a line of cutting-edge media…

2 years ago

Swimming, or drowning, in the Chinese tide

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently visited the Solomon Islands and seven other South Pacific nations, part of leader Xi…

2 years ago

North Korea makes school uniforms in inter-Korean industrial zone without permission

Some North Korean students will show up for school this summer decked out in high-quality uniforms made in a South…

2 years ago

Lithuania’s courtship of Taiwan rubs China the wrong way

Lithuania has angered China by allowing Taiwan to establish a representative office in its capital, Vilnius. At the same time,…

2 years ago

Mother of jailed Chinese activist Huang Qi says her cancer is spreading

Pu Wenqing, the mother of jailed rights activist Huang Qi, says her cancer is spreading from her lungs to her…

2 years ago

U.S.-China defense chiefs to meet at Asia security summit

U.S.-China tensions will once again take center stage at a major regional security forum in Singapore this weekend, with the…

2 years ago

Uyghur university student in Xinjiang arrested for ‘attempting to divide the country’

A Uyghur student who had attended university in southeastern China was arrested last December during an internship in northwestern China’s…

2 years ago

Philippines protests new Chinese ‘swarming’ in South China Sea

The Philippines said Thursday it had filed a new diplomatic protest against Beijing over the alleged return of a massive…

2 years ago

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