ISLAMABAD, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Wednesday summoned Afghan envoy and lodged protest over the "detention" of two Pakist...

Sokummono Khan PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA — Cambodia's foreign ministry has issued a broad rebuttal to accusations of human rights abus...

YANGON, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A total of 1,883 prisoners were released on Wednesday ahead of Myanmar new year water festival which is to s...

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Religion in China as of 2015 (Click Image to Enlarge) The Chinese Communist Party has "intensified" its persecution of religi...

Former Guantanamo Bay detainees Mourad Benchellali and Nizar Sassi on Wednesday described their ordeals of ill-treatment and abuse at the...

Tenzin: The 14th Dalai Lama (Image: Wiki Commons ) Yeshi Dorje China imposed new border restrictions in Tibetan border regions Sund...

By Pravit Rojanaphruk Pravit Rojanaphruk recounts his recent “attitude adjustment” under the country’s ruling junta. “Attitude ad...

By Luke Hunt Law and order continues to be a problem in the country’s south. As Philippine president Benigno Aquino III begins to...

By Andrew Anderson For the international community it is business as usual, even as China detains hundreds of human rights defenders....

By Angela Poh Conflating domestic protest with international terrorism is unhelpful. Thailand’s recent deportation to China of m...

By Mitchell Lerner "The history of North Korea suggests that its leadership acts with greatest vehemence when it is internally ...

Jiao Guobiao ( Wiki Info ) Chinese police detain a former journalism professor for posting his views on disputed islands in the East C...

By Luke Hunt Malaysia and Burma remain poles apart in most aspects of life—religion, ethnicity, and politics—but where they seem more...