China’s population has decreased for the first time in over 60 years, signaling the start of long-term decline that will bring demographic challenges for the world’s second-largest economy as well as the world.
Last year, 9.56 million babies were born …
A prominent Burmese Christian leader who had asked U.S. President Donald Trump to hold the Myanmar military accountable for its human rights violations, is in poor health, suffering from lung problems and high blood pressure while in detention, his wif…
Continue ReadingProduction resumed at a China-owned nickel smelter in Indonesia on Tuesday after a deadly weekend riot highlighted lingering tensions over the presence of Chinese workers in the Southeast Asian country.
Police said the violence erupted on Saturda…
Updated at 1:50 p.m. ET on 2023-01-17
A huge explosion aboard an oil tanker killed at least two people including a Burmese national at a Thai shipyard and injured at least 10, while others were reported missing, the provincial governor and Marine Depar…
When the Vietnamese national football team scored the opening goal at the finals of the ASEAN Football Federation Mitsubishi Electric Cup, on Jan. 13, it was all smiles between President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, but it belie…
Continue ReadingCambodian authorities arrested the Vice President of the opposition Candlelight Party Thach Setha on Monday, accusing him of issuing false checks from his bank account.
Thach Setha has denied the allegations. In response, the Candlelight Party issued …
Continue ReadingAnother senior official from Cambodia’s Agriculture Ministry appears to have ties to companies accused of poaching and smuggling endangered monkeys, RFA has found.
Sen Sovann is director general of the ministry’s Department of Animal Health and Product…
