China mixes financial, education and career incentives with coercive measures such as threats to families under state policies to promote intermarriage between majority Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uyghurs in the restive…
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Conflict in Europe overshadows G-20 in Bali as leaders condemn missile strikes
The Indonesian president led world leaders in a ceremonial planting of mangroves Wednesday to draw attention to the global climate crisis, but the final day of the G-20 summit on the tropical…
Police arrest Thai man caught smuggling four tiger cubs from Laos
Thai police said they arrested a Thai man on Tuesday caught smuggling four 2-month-old tiger cubs and attempting to sell them for U.S.$42,000. Thanad Wongsarm, 63, will be charged with trafficking endangered…
UN group calls for the release of political prisoner Tran Duc Thach
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), has called on Vietnamese authorities to release poet, author and human rights campaigner Tran Duc Thach. WGAD’s report, posted on Nov. 4, called…
China clamps down on social media comments under news stories
China is clamping down on social media comments, ordering all websites, apps and other platforms to seek political approval for public comments – including emoticons – under news stories before they’re published…
Military jets bomb a mine in Kayin State, killing 3 civilians
A junta air attack on a mine near the Thai-Myanmar border left three people dead. The attack happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to local residents. The identity of…
North Korean censors destroy more than half of soldiers’ Mother’s Day letters
North Korea’s military ordered soldiers to write letters to their mothers ahead of the country’s Mother’s Day, which was on Wednesday, but military censors destroyed more than half of them for ideological…
‘Malicious' anti-lockdown comments on live stream prompt Xinjiang police probe
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang are investigating three men after internet users "maliciously flooded" a live-streamed government press conference with comments critical of COVID-19 restrictions in the regional capital, Urumqi, according to the…
China sentences mother of Uyghur Dutch airman to 15 years for visiting him abroad
Chinese authorities have sentenced the mother and sister-in-law of an ethnic Uyghur member of the Dutch air force to 15 years in prison on charges of supporting terrorism and revealing state secrets,…
ASEAN’s strongest statement to date on Myanmar falls short, opposition says
A joint statement issued last week by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the strongest to date on resolving member state Myanmar’s political crisis, but should have barred junta delegates from…