Chinese rights lawyer jailed for ‘subversion’
Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced on Monday to four and a half years in prison for state subversion, sealing the...
Above the concrete canopy: Hong Kong from the sky
A giant container ship sailing under a suspension bridge; Chinese cemeteries as densely packed as the housing blocks their occupants once lived in; lush...
Chinese court sentences Canadian drug suspect to death
A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death on drug trafficking charges on Monday after his previous 15-year prison sentence was deemed too...
Egypt opens Middle East’s biggest cathedral near Cairo
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has inaugurated Egypt's largest cathedral in the new administrative capital east of Cairo, a day after a deadly bomb blast...
Rahaf al-Qunun: Thailand vows not to deport Saudi woman
Thailand's immigration police chief says a Saudi woman who fled her family at the weekend will be given temporary entry to the country.
Thai immigration...
