A Taiwanese national was detained and interrogated for six hours at Shanghai's international airport after Chinese customs officers flagged his prior employment with Amnesty Intern......
A Chinese court has sentenced US-based artist Gao Zhen to three years in prison for sculptures he made more than a decade ago depicting Mao Zedong kneeling in repentance — a verdict that human rights advocates say weaponizes retroactive law against political art.
A crowd gathered in Indonesia's Aceh province on August 20 to watch a public flogging, and according to a report from Ynet, some in the audience shouted "harder" as the canes came ......
Days before Canadians voted on April 28 last year, a federal task force did something no government had done before: it publicly warned that a foreign state was running a transnati......
A book published in Taiwan turns some of the most widely reported political events of the Xi Jinping era into something rarer: sustained portraits of the individuals who lived thro......
Lam Wing-kee (林榮基), the Causeway Bay Books manager whose 2016 press conference exposed his secret detention in mainland China, died on July 2, 2026, at Mackay Memorial Hospital in ......
As the United States marked 250 years of independence on July 4, Chinese state media and social platforms devoted unusual attention to the milestone, even as Washington, Brussels a......
Japan's Ministry of Justice issued administrative guidelines in 2011 covering everything from hair length to hormone therapy for transgender inmates. Fifteen years on, the framewor......
On the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has issued a formal statement demanding that the Chinese government con......
A Foggy Tale (大濛), the epic historical film directed by Golden Horse Award-winning filmmaker Chen Yu-hsun (陳玉勳), is now streaming globally on Netflix. The film swept five prizes at......
A former Chinese soldier who fought with Russian forces in Ukraine and publicly criticised the war now faces deportation back to China after Germany rejected his asylum application......
