Story Archive
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.
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.
