The brother of an imprisoned Tibetan businessman has posted videos of himself pleading with authorities to allow relatives to visit his jailed sibling, including a protest he staged in front of the prison in the western Chinese autonomous region where …
Continue ReadingDozens of young Chinese — many of them women — are being quietly detained for taking part in November’s “white paper” protests, Radio Free Asia has learned.
Sources familiar with the crackdown in Beijing say at least 40 people are missing and believ…
Continue ReadingNathaniel C. Fick is the U.S. Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
As the first person to ever hold that office, Fick leads the State Department’s newly created Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, which addresses national securit…
North Korea has punished five policemen for attacking a superior officer during a departmental review, with leader Kim Jong Un personally ordering them to hard labor sentences, sources in the country told Radio Free Asia.
The five officers were part of…
A settlement of about 3,000 Rohingya refugees on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border was burnt to the ground Wednesday after an hours-long gunfight between Rohingya militant groups that left at least one person dead, sources said.
The two armed groups engage…
Vietnam’s parliament on Wednesday approved the removal of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc over COVID-19 bribery scandals that took place during his term, state media in the communist country reported.
In a widely expected move, the National Assembly rubber-…
The home in an exclusive Bangkok residential compound popular with diplomats was rented ostensibly by the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru for its consul-general to Thailand, his family and staff.
But Onassis Dame, the Nauruan diplomat, and his fam…
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