Story Archive
2020-11-04
The rail line connecting China's Sichuan province with Tibet's Nyingtri prefecture will boost migration and trade, but can also be used to move troops quickly to areas along China's disputed border with India.
2020-11-04
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto tested positive soon after leaving the country.
2020-11-04
Sok Bolyma has actively campaigned for the release of her husband, but now fears for her life.
2020-11-04
Ma is hauled in for a dressing down after criticizing the government, which has given no reason for the decision.
2020-11-04
Officials are increasingly being targeted by party investigators over ‘overseas publications with serious political problems.’
2020-11-03
Court also questions wife of opposition member who claims her son was tortured by police.
2020-11-03
One critic calls the military’s open criticism and of the government’s performance 'very alarming.'
2020-11-03
Yusufjan Amet said he had monitored the Uyghur exile community for years before speaking out.
2020-11-03
Kastar Polat was handed a 15-year sentence and a hefty fine for posting the song to social media.
2020-11-03
Bao Choy is taken away from her home and charged with misuse of a vehicle license plate search facility used in the investigation.
2020-11-03
A former top aide to late ousted premier Zhao Ziyang says a recent party plenum means there will be no rule of law in China.
2020-11-02
Residents desperate to even gather wilted cabbage leaves and radish stems discarded after harvest.
2020-11-02
Before handing himself in, Wirathu accuses the ruling National League for Democracy government of harassing him.
2020-11-02
Storm Goni, the tenth storm of the season, slammed into the Philippines at the weekend and is now heading for Vietnam, with landfall expected by mid-week.
2020-11-02
Another five have been sentenced to prison, while others are forced to work in factories or missing.
2020-11-02
Ta Mok Lake in the capital is under threat from overdevelopment, activists say.
2020-11-02
Many have been forced to abandon travel plans amid skyrocketing ticket prices.
2020-11-02
No pro-China lawmakers are arrested in connection with physical scuffles in the city’s Legislative Council on May 8.
2020-11-01
Southeast Asia, home to nearly 15 percent of the world’s tropical forests, is one of the world’s deforestation hotspots.
2020-11-01
The New Myanmar Foundation says an unprecedented number of clashes already have occurred during the election campaign period.
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
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used a tour of Asia to upbraid China over its persecution of Uyghur Muslims and military expansionism in the South China Sea, the latest salvo in a titanic fight between Washington and Beijing -- over trade and technology, the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the autonomy of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and human rights -- that has seen bilateral relations reach their lowest point in four decades. For his part, Chinese President Xi Jinping called out “unilateralism, protectionism, and extreme egoism” in a thinly veiled jab at the U.S. in a recent speech.
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
2020-10-30
Forecast raises doubts about China's climate pledges.
2020-10-29
'We were terrified. They fired guns and artillery nonstop,' said boat operator Kan Aye Chan.
