A terminally ill Pakistani prisoner on death row in Indonesia has passed away in a hospital shortly after rights activists in Pakistan sought his release on humanitarian grounds...

China's supreme court has thrown out the fraud conviction of a retail tycoon amid a series of prosecutions of high-profile entrepreneurs that has rattled the Chinese business world...

A Thai appeals court vindicates a British labor rights activist entangled in a years-long legal confrontation with a fruit-packing company after he publicized alleged human rights violations at its fa...

The wife of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer says she has been prevented from leaving her neighborhood in the latest apparent case of extra-legal harassment of those who fall afoul of the ruling...

The former head of China's Anbang Insurance Group which owns New York's famed Waldorf Astoria Hotel is appealing his sentence of 18 years in prison...

South Korean police have summoned the wife of Korean Air's chairman to question her about allegations she abused and assaulted employees...

Police have raided factories near Bangkok that allegedly are processing illegally imported electronic waste...

A Chinese dissident who founded a website documenting alleged rights abuses will be tried on a charge of leaking state secrets next month...

Indonesia passes a tougher anti-terrorism law, lengthening detention periods and involving the military in counter-terrorism policing, spurred into action by recent bombings that involved children as ...

Malaysian police say the cash stashed in bags at an apartment linked to former Prime Minister Najib Razak and seized in a money-laundering investigation amounted to $28.6 million...