Cambodian labor activists said a visiting United Nations human rights official was given the false impression that the country supports worker rights by authorities who paused a violent crackdown on a  months-long protest by a group of former casi…

Police in Bangladesh have arrested 10 Bangladeshis linked to the construction of an elevated rapid transit route being built by a Chinese company after a section collapsed and killed five people driving on a road underneath it earlier this week, offici…

Myanmar junta forces and members of an affiliated militia group torched most of the homes in a village in the central Magway region, another display of the regime’s reliance on arson in its fight to hold onto power 18 months after removing the democrat…

Authorities in North Korea have organized “corn inspection squads” that patrol areas near rural collective farms and stop citizens to check their bags for stolen grains, sources in the country told RFA.
The country is suffering from a shortage of food,…

Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen on Tuesday defended the presence in a protected forest zone of a controversial bodyguard unit accused of assaulting environmental activists monitoring activity in the area.
Writing on his Facebook page, Hun Sen said he …

Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong, Benny Tai and dozens of other defendants pleaded guilty to subversion charges brought under Hong Kong’s draconian national security law after they took part in a democratic primary in the summer of 2020, local…