The Lao government has come up with a plan to try to reduce the country’s crushing external debt this year by eliminating investments in new state projects that are not profitable and by inspecting out-of-scope projects that will not generate tax reven…
Continue ReadingThailand called off its threat to boycott a kickboxing event at this year’s Southeast Asian Games in Cambodia after the two countries resolved a dispute over the name of a sometimes violent sport that the host country calls “Kun Khmer” but which Thais …
Continue ReadingU.S. President Joe Biden has extended by two years a rule that has allowed Hong Kong residents already in the United States to remain instead of being deported back to the Chinese territory.
The Deferred Enforced Departure exemptions for Hong Kong resi…
The United Nations has condemned Vietnam’s 2018 arrest and detention of Nguyen Ngoc Anh, a 43-year-old environmental activist and farming engineer who was charged with conducting “anti-State propaganda.”
The U.N.’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention…
Continue ReadingA chief editor of a Hong Kong-based political magazine who went missing in September has been arrested on suspicion of “running an illegal business,” Radio Free Asia has learned.
Chen Zhiming, a former editor at the People’s Daily Press who moved to H…
Continue ReadingMore than 10,000 civilians have been forced to flee their homes in southern Myanmar’s Kayin state amid intensified fighting this week between junta troops and ethnic Karen armed groups, local residents told RFA.
The recent round of fighting erupted on…
Continue ReadingThe return to the U.S. policy of deterring North Korean aggression against the South by threatening a devastating counterattack is working, a senior U.S. intelligence adviser said Thursday.
The comments came in the wake of a new report detailing “drama…
