The U.S. Department of Defense has released its annual report to Congress on the military power of China. 2018 – Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China (PDF) 2018 – Military Power…
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Developers of two proposed hydropower projects in Laos are pressing ahead with plans to build the mega-dams on the Mekong River, despite a recent order by the government to halt new dam investments following a…
North Korean authorities are calling for strengthened vigilance against “non-socialist” behavior in advance of a major national holiday, with ruling party youth groups deployed across the country to warn or detain citizens found wearing condemned…
The members of a new independent commission established by Myanmar’s government to investigate human rights violations in Rakhine state pledged on Thursday to conduct their investigation with impartiality and to submit a report on their…
A group of United Nations rights experts are urging the Japanese government to urgently protect tens of thousands or workers hired to help decontaminate the Fukushima nuclear plant, who are reportedly being exploited and exposed…
A court in central Vietnam’s Nghe An province convicted a dissident writer and activist on Thursday of trying to overthrow the country’s communist government, handing him a 20-year prison term after a one-day trial in…
Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates a low level of activity at North Korea’s Sinpo South Shipyard, where North Korea’s only… The post North Korea’s Sinpo South Shipyard: Low Level Activity Continues appeared first on 38…
The perpetrators of Wednesday’s “heinous” suicide bombing that killed students at an education centre in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, must be brought to justice, the UN Secretary-General has said. Source: UN News Centre Read More:…
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have indicted human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng on subversion charges, paving the way for a trial, his wife said on Thursday. Yu, who is being held incommunicado…
UN human rights experts have said the workers, most of them migrants, risked “exposure to radiation and coercion.” They have called on Japan to protect the workers cleaning up the damaged nuclear power station. Source:…