The trial on treason charges of Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha will go ahead as scheduled on Jan. 19, with the government refusing to interfere, a government spokesman said on Friday.
Options for Kem Sokha’s release can be considered once the tr…
Myanmar’s junta on Friday leveled five new corruption charges against deposed National League for Democracy (NLD) party chief Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a source close to the secret court where she is being tried, bringing the total number of crime…
Continue ReadingA court in Vietnam Friday sentenced a former police captain to two years in prison for “resisting law enforcement,” after he argued with police when they towed his car, his lawyer told RFA.
Police in the southern economic hub Ho Chi Minh city impounded…
North Korean workers dispatched to China to earn cash for Pyongyang are struggling to make ends meet, with coronavirus lockdowns crimping the job market, sources in China told RFA.
Cash-strapped North Korea sends workers to countries like China and Rus…
Rights groups and a former United Nations official issued a final plea for the international community to use the approaching Winter Olympics in Beijing to pressure China to improve its human rights record, amid widespread persecution of Muslim Uyghurs…
Continue ReadingAuthorities in western China’s Sichuan province last year seized a life-size statue of a revered Tibetan religious leader that was being taken into Tibet and arrested those involved in the statue’s manufacture and transport, RFA has learned.
The statue…
Opening 2022 with back-to-back hypersonic missile tests, North Korea followed China and Russia in successful launches of the low-flying, highly maneuverable weapons that fly faster than five times the speed of sound. China surprised observers with the …
Continue ReadingThe Philippines has agreed to buy a U.S. $375-million package of BrahMos supersonic anti-ship missiles from India, tapping China’s main strategic rival in Asia to shore up its defenses in the disputed South China Sea.
The acquisition of the BrahMos, sa…
