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Hong Kong journalists charged with conspiracy to publish 'seditious' conten
Dec 30, 2021 (AFP)
China has tightened its control of Hong Kong since massive and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests engulfed the city in 2019, and suppression of the local ...
Hong Kong police raid local media outlet, arrest six for 'seditious publication'
Dec 29, 2021 (AFP)
Suppression of Hong Kong's local press has increased in the wake of huge and often violent democracy protests two years ago and the subsequent imposition of a s...
New UN Myanmar envoy says 'deeply concerned' by escalating violence
Dec 27, 2021 (AFP)
Nationwide protests against the February coup have been met with a bloody crackdown, with more than 1,300 people killed and over 11,000 arrested, according to a...
Myanmar court delays Suu Kyi walkie-talkie verdict again
Dec 27, 2021 (AFP)
The Nobel laureate has been detained since the generals staged a coup against her government on February 1, ending the Southeast Asian country's brief period of...
Trudeau says China 'playing' democracies against each other
Dec 26, 2021 (AFP)
"We need to do a better job of working together and standing strong so that China can't, you know, play the angles and divide us one against the other," he told...
Xi hails 'successful' Hong Kong vote in meeting with Carrie Lam
Dec 22, 2021 (AFP)
China has overseen a sweeping crackdown in Hong Kong after huge and often violent democracy protests two years ago, introducing a national security law that cri...
Myanmar used helicopters in raid on anti-coup fighters; As UN calls for 'urgent access'
Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)
Anti-junta militias have sprung up across Myanmar to fight back after the February coup and a crackdown on dissent that a local monitoring group says has killed...
Myanmar junta court postpones Suu Kyi verdict
Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)
The Nobel laureate has been detained since the generals staged a coup against her government on February 1, ending the Southeast Asian country's brief period of...
Record low turnout for Hong Kong's first 'patriots only' polls
Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)
Figures showed just 30 percent of the electorate cast ballots, the lowest rate both of the period since the city's 1997 handover to China and the British coloni...
G7 condemns 'erosion' of democracy in Hong Kong polls
Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)
China has overseen a sweeping crackdown in Hong Kong in response to huge and often violent democracy protests two years ago. It imposed a national security law ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi awaits walkie-talkie verdict
Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)
The Nobel laureate has been detained since the generals staged a coup against her government on February 1, ending the Southeast Asian country's brief period of...
Hong Kong elite picks new 'patriots only' legislature
Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)
It is the first legislature poll under the new political blueprint China imposed on Hong Kong in response to massive and often violent pro-democracy protests tw...
Hong Kong elites pick new 'patriots only' legislature
Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)
It is the first legislature poll under the new political blueprint China imposed on Hong Kong in response to massive and often violent pro-democracy protests tw...
Why don't all politicians use antidemocratic tactics to stay in power?
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
If we accept the premise that politicians and political parties generally want to stay in power, then why would they ever forgo dirty tricks to win elections? T...
Turnout the only unknown as Hong Kong holds first 'patriots only' polls
Dec 17, 2021 (AFP)
It is the first legislature election overseen by a new political blueprint that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in response to massive and often violent pro-democr...
Record 488 journalists imprisoned, 46 killed in 2021: RSF
Dec 16, 2021 (AFP)
By contrast, the number killed this year -- 46 -- was the lowest since it began issuing annual tallies, due to the relative stabilisation of conflicts in the Mi...
Hundreds flee to Thailand as Myanmar junta clashes with rebel group
Dec 16, 2021 (AFP)
Fighting between Karen National Union (KNU) and the military broke out on Wednesday in the town of Lay Kay Kaw near the Thai border -- the first such clashes in...
US threatens new measures against Myanmar junta
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in chaos since February when Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government was ousted by the military. The United States has imposed some sanctions an...
Trump media group plans subscription video service
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
The organization headed by former US president Donald Trump said that it has already inked a deal to have the specialty firm, which is popular with political co...
Hong Kong court orders Apple Daily parent firm to be wound up
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
Apple Daily closed down earlier this year after its assets were frozen using a national security law that China imposed on Hong Kong to quash dissent. Its owner...
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