Chinese writer, lawyer and human rights advocate Guo Feixiong became the second leader of the New Citizens movement to be arrested on suspicion of “disrupting the peace.”
The Philippines high court issued a "temporary environment protection order" against 94 Chinese-owned "small-scale mines" operating on the margins of the law in Luzon region.
Anti-corruption activist and lawyer Xu Zhiyong was arrested by Chinese authorities on suspicion of having "gathered crowds to disrupt public order."
The Kudankulam nuclear power plant in India went online despite years of angry protests—while a single, rare protest halted the Longwan nuclear power project in China.
Edward Snowden seeks refuge in Ecuador, just as the Andean country has passed a media law protested by the Committee to Protect Journalists as imposing arbitrary censorship.
Courts in China’s far western province of Xinjiang sentenced 11 ethnic Uighurs to up to six years in prison for promoting racial hatred and religious extremism online.
Chinese-owned mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo are contributing to a culture of human rights abuses, Amnesty International reports.
Nicaragua sealed a pact granting Chinese business magnate Wang Jing exclusive rights to build a multibillion-dollar inter-oceanic canal through the Central American nation.
For all the hoopla about North Korea, a far more significant threat on the Asian continent is getting virtually no coverage: the nuclear arms race between China and India.
Nepalese Maoist leader Prachanda sent a condolence letter to Sonia Gandhi over the attack by Maoist Naxalite guerillas in which 27 were killed, including a brutal paramilitary chief.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been a big hit among freedom-hungry Chinese cyber-cognoscenti, placing Beijing in a bind on whether to support or betray him.
Commentators in China and the West alike portray the Tiananmen massacre as a legacy of Maoism. But was the repression in spite of China's capitalist transition, or a function of it?
