North Korea is reorganizing collective farm labor groups to prevent workers from forming alliances based on family ties, which the state fears undermine its agricultural goals, sources in the country told RFA.
In a society where most families pride the…

Ethnic Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will not return to their home in neighboring Myanmar’s Rakhine state unless they are granted equal rights and freedom of movement, they said Thursday, days after the junta announced that it is preparing for their …

Singapore and Indonesia condemned the violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity on Thursday, after Russia invaded the former Soviet Republic, but much of the rest of Southeast Asia was muted in its reaction to the development.
Russian forces invaded…

Cambodian civil society groups, community organizations, and trade unions on Thursday accused governmental officials of sexually harassing female strikers and applying COVID prevention rules arbitrarily as part of an effort to break up recent labor dem…

The Chinese media’s praise for a Han Chinese man as a “model philanthropist” helping minority students in northwestern China’s Xinjiang has outraged Uyghur activists who note that China has jailed numerous Uyghur philanthropists under a mass internment…

Chinese commentators have taken aim at an official investigation into a woman found chained up in the eastern province of Jiangsu, calling for a wider inquiry into rampant human trafficking and official collusion with criminal gangs who buy and sell wo…