The Philippines’ first Olympic champion, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, lent her voice to nationalist sentiments by unequivocally declaring on Thursday that the contested South China Sea “is ours.”
Diaz spoke to reporters in Manila after returning home wit…

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Vietnamese Defense Minister Phan Van Giang in Hanoi on Thursday for talks on strengthening security in the South China Sea, where China has encroached on territorial waters and maritime resources claimed …

The wife of a North Korean consul stationed in Vladivostok, Russia, contracted COVID-19 and died this month, RFA has learned from sources in Russia, who said the North lacked the cash to vaccinate its diplomats in the Pacific coast city.
The woman, who…

A prominent political activist and radio show host stood trial in Hong Kong on Thursday under colonial-era sedition laws, amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent under a draconian national security law imposed on the city by Beijing.
Online talk-show host…

Millions of people in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing were under partial lockdown on Thursday as the authorities scrambled to contain an outbreak of the Delta coronavirus variant in the city.
Health authorities said that, as of Thursday, the city h…

National security police in Hong Kong have confiscated the passport of a journalist who livestreamed the stabbing of a police officer outside the Sogo department store on July 1, the Standard news website reported Thursday.The former journalist wi…