China: crackdown on Guangdong labor activists
At least 18 Guangdong-based labor advocates have been detained in police sweeps seemingly aimed at heading off further industrial strikes in the region.
At least 18 Guangdong-based labor advocates have been detained in police sweeps seemingly aimed at heading off further industrial strikes in the region.
A Beijing court released ailing journalist Gao Yu on medical parole, while upholding her conviction for leaking an internal Communist Party document.
Amid US brinkmanship in the South China Sea, a UN arbitration court agreed to hear the Philippines' challenge of Beijing's territorial claims.
China is reported to be sending warships to Syria to augment the Russian build-up there—as word emerges of a Uighur jihadist group allied with the Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.
The massive spectacle in Beijing commemorating China's victory in the Sino-Japanese War was preceded by arrests of activists pushing a dissident version of the conflict's history.
Chinese authorities arrested 12 individuals for illegally storing dangerous materials that led to the Tianjin warehouse explosions, which killed at least 139 people.
Despite early pledges to seek a nuclear-free world, Obama is launching a "modernization" of the US arsenal that actually makes atomic war more likely.
Student protesters are occupying the Education Ministry grounds in Taipei to demand an end to planned textbook revisions that emphasize the "One China" view of history.
A Tibetan nomad imprisoned eight years for calling for the return of the Dalai Lama was released, but his home county is tense over the death in custody of an activist monk.
A court in China ruled that a lawsuit against ConocoPhillips China and China National Offshore Oil for a 2011 oil spill can proceed under a new law allowing NGOs to directly sue polluters.
Despite a massive nationwide protest campaign, the ruling bloc in the Diet's lower house pushed through a law "reinterpreting" Japan's constitution to allow combat missions.
At least five Chinese attorneys from a human rights law firm were detained after being accused of running a criminal syndicate and smear campaign against the Communist Party.