On the third anniversary of a hydropower dam collapse that caused deadly flooding in southern Laos, villagers in six communities hit hardest by the disaster say they are still facing hardship due to unsuitable land on which to grow crops year-round, a …

The families of two hunger-striking Vietnamese political prisoners are concerned about their health due to months-long hunger strikes over what they see as unfair sentencing and poor prison conditions, the families told RFA.
Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, who ha…

Chinese President Xi Jinping made a visit Thursday to Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa, strolling in the city’s Barkor area and greeting passersby in an unannounced trip not covered by Chinese state-controlled media, RFA’s Tibetan Service reported today …

Two years after three NGO workers were detained in the central Chinese province of Hunan, their families have received news of sentences handed down to two of them.
Cheng Yuan, Liu Dazhi, and Wu Ge Jianxiong, who ran the Changsha Funeng NGO, were tried…

A Chinese national who fled his home country after supporting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has arrived in the Netherlands to claim political asylum after a harrowing escape from agents of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spanning the…