It’s bribery season in North Korea.
Every December, state-run enterprises submit their budget proposals to treasury officials – and bribes to keep their funding from getting reduced, sources in the country tell Radio Free Asia.
In North Korea, many ins…

The United States needs to focus on increasing trade ties with Asia to ensure its strategic preeminence in the region, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in Washington on Wednesday.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for Int…

Jailed Vietnamese environmental activist Dang Din Bach went on a six-day hunger strike last month to draw attention to his case from the international community, RFA has learned.
Bach, director of the Hanoi-based Research Center for Law and Policy for …

A Chinese activist from the southern province of Guangdong said she was tortured, beaten and treated like a traitor while in prison for protesting a draconian national security law imposed on Hong Kong.

Zhang Wuzhou, who was handed a two-year, nine-mo…

China on Wednesday announced a further loosening of its COVID-19 prevention measures, allowing the majority of cases and contacts to quarantine at home in an apparent bid to stave off further anti-lockdown protests and kickstart the economy.

Under the…