The retired parents of a Uyghur activist living in Australia have been in state custody since mid-2018, RFA has learned from sources inside northwestern China’s Xinjiang region.
Activist Shamsiye Hajibeg is the wife of Nurmemet Abdulmijit Turkistani, p…

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Authorities in China’s Hubei province are dismantling a massive statue of the military d…

A Uyghur man living in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was sent to an internment camp four years ago for the crime of speaking to relatives overseas, contradicting Chinese claims that Uyghur residents of the region are free to keep in …

Authorities in Vietnam have rejected petition letters calling for an investigation into legal proceedings against detained blogger Nguyen Tuong Thuy, who is serving an 11-year sentence for writing articles online that criticized Vietnam’s one-party com…

China’s investment in Laos has climbed since 1989 to a cumulative $16 billion, but little of this money has benefited ordinary citizens, while the negative impact from Chinese development projects isn’t being counted accurately, Lao sources say.
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With food shortages driving hungry North Koreans to steal crops from fields, authorities have deployed military units to guard farmland during harvest season with orders to shoot crop thieves on sight, sources in the country told RFA.
The campaign to s…