Story Archive
2010-12-23
Tee Hua Pa Khor is a traditional game played by Laotian children. Test your skill in this interactive flash game and see how far you can hit the stick!
2010-12-15
RFA journalists go to Yeonpyeong Island to see the devastation left by North Korea's Nov. 23 artillery attack.
2010-12-10
Nguyen Dinh Dang, a Vietnamese national who studied abroad in Russia during the 1980s, is a rare master of both the sciences and aesthetics. He obtained a PhD in nuclear physics in 1985 and a Doctor-of-Sciences degree in 1990 at Moscow State University, but has maintained a passion for art since the age of five when his French-educated father taught him to draw.
2010-12-07
Smuggling of people has emerged as a serious problem In Vietnam, with most of the victims trafficked to China and other neighboring countries such as Cambodia and Laos for sexual and labor exploitation.
2010-12-03
Burma was ranked next to worst among 178 countries in corruption in a 2010 report released in October by Transparency International, a Berlin-based monitoring group. China was ranked 78th and Vietnam 116th while Cambodia and Laos emerged low at 154.
2010-12-03
The number of AIDS deaths in Asia may have stabilized but there are no indications of a decline in the prevalence of the deadly disease.
2010-11-23
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, freed by the junta from house arrest just 10 days ago, was reunited with her youngest son on Nov. 23 after nearly one decade of separation.
2010-11-23
Key dates on the Korean Peninsula, the world’s last Cold War frontier.
2010-11-22
Hundreds of people have been killed in a bridge stampede in Cambodia's capital, marking a tragic end to a three-day annual water festival.
2010-11-17
Despite a large increase in foreign tourists and tourism-generated revenue, Cambodia’s poverty-stricken population is seeing very few of the profits.
2010-11-12
From her birth in 1945, Burma’s icon of democracy—and the daughter of its independence hero, Gen. Aung San—seemed destined for a life of duty. Following are key milestones in the life of Burma’s Nobel peace laureate and opposition leader.
2010-11-12
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has remained a symbol of hope for Burma’s politically oppressed, despite having been imprisoned for much of the last 20 years.
2010-11-09
Tens of thousands of refugees fled Burma as the ruling military junta clashed with minority ethnic rebels in the wake of hotly disputed Nov. 7 elections.
2010-11-06
To better understand Burma, it is important to note the various ethnic groups that make up the country, once colonized by the British and now ruled by an iron fist military junta.
2010-11-04
Key global powers and opposition parties in Burma say the country’s Nov. 7 polls lack legitimacy. The ruling military junta however contends the vote will promote democracy.
2010-10-29
The Nam Theun 2 Dam is expected to help Laos eliminate proverty by 2010, but at what cost?
2010-10-05
China, Vietnam, and the U.S. increasingly seek to assert naval influence in the South China Sea.
2010-10-04
The United Nations Development Program recently selected a community forest initiative organized by Cambodian monks as one of 25 group recipients of the Equator Prize 2010, awarded for community efforts to reduce poverty through conservation.
2010-09-30
The Don Sahong Dam is one of the projects planned for the lower Mekong River that is most debated by environmentalists because of its expected impact on fisheries.
2010-09-22
A new exhibit in China’s capital shows the work of nearly 50 artists who have lived or currently reside in Tibet.
2010-08-12
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) caused the deaths of up to two million people. Now, several of its leaders are on trial, and the people of Cambodia are watching. (Please, come back often for regular updates.)
2010-07-23
The 20th century witnessed mass murder on a previously unthinkable scale. But Khmer Rouge atrocities remain uniquely shocking in their brutality.
2010-07-16
Test your tightrope walking skills. Be careful not to fall off! Leave your highest score in the comments section and challenge your friends.
2010-07-01
Key events in Xinjiang—the site of a deadly ethnic clashes in July 2009—since 2008.
2010-06-29
Communities on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake face a number of hardships, including poverty, floods, and a dwindling supply of fish.
2010-06-23
Residents on the Mekong River in Thailand fight to permanently open the gates of the Pak Mun Dam.
2010-06-16
A number of dams on tributaries of the Mekong River in Laos have had a controversial impact on the local population.
2010-05-17
The massive Gulf oil spill has exacted a heavy price from some 5,000 Vietnamese fishermen.
2010-05-14
A series of knife attacks against children in China has prompted increased security measures at schools around the country and raised concerns about mental health treatment.
2010-05-13
See a timeline of critical events in Thailand’s 2010 political unraveling.
