Laos has imposed price controls on 23 basic necessities such as pork, rice and natural gas to try to rein in inflation that has surged above 40 percent – controls authorities aim to enforce through fines or even jail time.
But the price limits are maki…
Vietnamese customs authorities on Monday confiscated seven tons of ivory illegally shipped from Angola in what is believed to be the largest seizure of wildlife products in Vietnam in years, state media reported.
The seizure took place after customs of…
Tin Myint’s husband, Aung Myo Thant, risked his life to defect from Myanmar’s navy and join the country’s non-violent Civil Disobedience Movement, or CDM, in opposition to the junta shortly after the military seized power in a coup.
The couple moved w…
The strange men started showing up at Su Yutong’s Berlin apartment in early June. For weeks, one or two would arrive each day.
Su grew up in China but since 2010 has lived in Germany, where she works as a journalist, including for Radio Free Asia. Her …
Human rights are a “central interest” of the Biden administration’s foreign policy “but not the only one,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday as he launched the annual U.S. country reports on human rights, which slammed China and Myanmar …
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ongoing visit to Russia forms part of a bid by Beijing to rebrand China’s international image and reshape the international community along authoritarian lines, commentators told Radio Free Asia in recent interviews and broa…
