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Vietnamese Facebook user jailed for 5 years for criticizing government

A Vietnamese court on Thursday sentenced a Facebook user to five years in prison for posting stories criticizing government authorities,…

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

Former Irrawaddy photojournalist charged with defamation

A photojournalist who had worked for The Irrawaddy newspaper has been charged under Section 505 (a) of the Penal Code…

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

Cambodian local elections legitimized resurgent opposition party, exiled founder says

Though fraud and irregularities tainted the June 5 Cambodian local commune council elections, the opposition Candlelight Party showed that it…

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

EU lawmakers find ‘serious risk of genocide’ in China’s repression of Uyghurs

Members of the European Parliament on Thursday easily passed a resolution calling the Chinese government’s systemic human rights abuses against…

2 years ago

‘The junta will bear full responsibility if my husband is executed’: Nilar Thein

88 Generation leader Ko Jimmy and former National League for Democracy lawmaker Phyo Zeyar Thaw were sentenced to death by…

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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