The hundreds of Vietnamese who signed contracts with a recruitment agency earlier this year expected to land jobs abroad with higher salaries than what they could ever hope to earn at home.
What they found instead at a Chinese tire factory site in Serb…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed to strengthen American economic ties with Indonesia and boost infrastructure investment in the country after he arrived in Jakarta on Monday to start his first tour of Southeast Asia as Washington’s top dipl…
Continue ReadingA court in western China’s Sichuan province has sentenced a Tibetan monk to five years in prison for sharing books and teachings by Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, RFA has learned.
Lobsang Thinley, a monk in his early 20s from Kirti monastery,…
A court in Hong Kong on Monday handed down a 13-month jail term to pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai for “inciting” others to take part in a banned candlelight vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.
The District Court sentenced Lai, wh…
The Group of Seven industrialized nations has voiced concern over tensions in the South China and declared “shared interest in maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region” after an inaugural meeting of G7 foreign ministers with their counterparts f…
Continue ReadingOne of two Myanmar nationals arrested in August in connection with a plot to attack the country’s ambassador to the United Nations has pled guilty for his role in the conspiracy, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New …
Continue ReadingThe nuclear fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut which got into an accident while operating in the South China Sea in early October appears to have suffered damage to its bow.
Ship spotters have been sharing photos of the sub pulling into the San Dieg…
