Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen renewed his threat to seize properties belonging to opposition Candlelight Party members and others who accuse him and the ruling party of stealing last year’s local elections.

Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia since 198…

A Vietnamese provincial council member says he plans to resign after he was fined 6.5 million dong (U.S.$275) for knocking out his caddy with a golf club over a scoring disagreement during a round of golf, state media reported.
Nguyen Viet Dung, a memb…

China’s finance ministry has warned cash-strapped local governments whose coffers have been depleted by the zero-COVID policy, that there won’t be any bailouts from Beijing.

The ministry said in a reply to a top advisory body that it will deal with hi…

Angry workers at a now-defunct COVID-19 test kit factory in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing clashed with police over the weekend, upset about unpaid wages after the company announced mass layoffs.

Social media footage of the Saturday night …

In Brief 
As outbreaks of COVID-19 cases across China overwhelm hospitals, the official daily death count has remained in the single digits. Chinese officials have repeatedly claimed that China is adopting one of “two main global standards for det…