Authorities in China have detained more than 400 Myanmar migrant workers for more than a year for entering the country illegally and working without official documents, released migrants told RFA.
About 300 of the migrants were held at a prison in the …

A new tax on spring water in North Korea is eating into the income of poor people who make their living bottling it for sale to wealthier countrymen, sources in the country told RFA.
Every North Korean is given a government-assigned job but usually mus…

Lao workers hired six years ago to build homes for villagers displaced by construction of a China-backed dam are still waiting to be paid, while those who were resettled have yet to be compensated for lost land, a Lao-based coalition of government-moni…

Naval ships from Japan and the United States have conducted their first ever anti-submarine warfare exercise in the South China Sea, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force said, as Tokyo steps up joint maritime activities in those disputed waters with W…

Hong Kong’s second-in-command has called on the media to “ensure its credibility,” amid growing concerns over curbs on press freedom in the city, local media reported on Wednesday.
Chief secretary John Lee told government broadcaster RTHK that “fake in…