A North Korean restaurant in China is forcing female waitstaff to work without facemasks even amid reports that the new Omicron coronavirus variant is spreading across the globe, sources in China told RFA. North Korean…
A Uyghur police officer in China who was said to have committed suicide was instead tortured to death, a source said. Local officials confirmed to RFA that Nurmemet Yusup had died during the first week…
Han Chinese now outnumber Tibetans in top government posts in Tibet by more than 2-to-1, an indication, Tibetan sources say, of China’s push to dominate the region. Following Beijing’s installation of Wang Junzheng as Tibet’s…
A Malaysian state controlled by the opposition has cleared a multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed rail project – the country’s largest – its chief minister announced Thursday about a controversial venture stalled since 2016. Selangor, which the People’s…
Southeast Asian parliamentarians faced increased threats and harassment in 2021 with 91 lawmakers taken into custody compared with only one last year – often for merely “fulfilling their mandates” – a region-wide group of MPs…
The International Olympics Committee (IOC) on Thursday tried to play down fears for the safety of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, sparking criticism from rights activists who said her recent video calls with its officials…
Screenshots of a message calling for Chinese patriots "of the kind who know how to fight" and rewards for the doxxing of pro-democracy Hongkongers in the U.K. are circulating online, amid growing concerns over Beijing's…
China demanded that Indonesia stop oil and gas drilling at sea, alleging in an unprecedented diplomatic note about two months ago that such activities were occurring in waters it claims as part of its historic…
