Story Archive
2020-10-31
America’s top diplomat pressed an anti-China message during stops in India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Indonesia and Vietnam.
2020-10-30
What was once provided for free now commands 1/10 of its weight in food.
2020-10-30
Residents say the Myanmar Navy attacked their communities with indiscriminate fire.
2020-10-30
In Vietnam, 35 are reported dead with at least 19 killed by landslides, while floods destroy villages and roads in Laos.
2020-10-30
Police in the eastern province of Zhejiang track down and detain an internet user who accessed Wikipedia using a circumvention app.
2020-10-30
Chan Kin-man, co-founder of the 2014 Occupy Central pro-democracy movement, talks to RFA about prison life and his hopes for the future.
2020-10-30
Hongkongers will be asked to contact the multiplatform hotline with anonymous details of anyone suspected of breaking the National Security Law
2020-10-29
'We were terrified. They fired guns and artillery nonstop,' said boat operator Kan Aye Chan.
2020-10-29
Lhamo, 36, died covered in bruises two days after being sent to a hospital by police, while a cousin remains in jail.
2020-10-29
Sister says family visit with Nguyen Van Hoa was denied, and letters went unsent.
2020-10-29
Söyüngül Chanisheff recalls her years in prison after working towards a Uyghur state in the 1960s.
2020-10-29
Communist Party-anointed Buddhist leader has not won acceptance in Tibet despite decades of efforts.
2020-10-29
In a speech focused on religious freedom, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on Islamic countries to speak out against China's persecution of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
2020-10-29
Villagers facing displacement say they fear they will be inadequately compensated.
2020-10-29
Reports emerge on social media that the authorities in China are building a concrete wall along the Sino-Vietnamese border to stop people leaving.
2020-10-29
Chung is denied bail over charges that rights groups say are based on his peaceful use of social media.
2020-10-28
Michael Nguyen said he endured 16-hour interrogations, a sham trial, and only learned of his release at the airport.
2020-10-28
The hired relief boat operator died and two other men were injured as they carried food to Rakhine war refugees.
2020-10-28
British activist Andy Hall said that Thailand's Natural Fruit Co. had abused some of its migrant workers, many of them from Myanmar.
2020-10-28
Lao citizens remain unable to leave their country, though, as its border with Thailand opens to goods shipments only.
2020-10-28
Human Rights Watch, local groups, say the Union Election Commission has acted without transparency.
2020-10-28
The family of an exiled opposition official was threatened, and several activists have been detained.
2020-10-28
Nothing has been heard about the three men believed to have been sent back to China in September amid fears they may have been harshly treated or killed on their return.
2020-10-28
Thousands of homes are flooded, damaged, or destroyed, as authorities close schools, beaches, and airports across central coastal provinces.
2020-10-28
The authorities are using verbal pressure to force lawyers to stop representing detained activists who fled Hong Kong by speedboat.
2020-10-28
The student union says it is disappointed at the appointment of two Tsinghua University academics to vice president jobs.
2020-10-27
Rushed work by untrained troops caused two explosions in the country’s northeast.
2020-10-27
PPE is imported from China and polling stations are added as country of 54 million faces surge in pandemic.
2020-10-27
Forced resettlement schemes and military-style 'vocational training' have uprooted thousands from traditional livelihoods, taking them far from their homes, experts say.
2020-10-27
The ruling means the investigation will continue, nearly three years after the pair were arrested.
