Myanmar’s military junta on Tuesday announced the dissolution of the National League for Democracy – the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi that won the 2020 elections in a landslide – ahead of elections the regime plans to hold later this year.
The NLD did…
A land rights activist accused of giving interviews to foreign media and storing illegally printed books was sentenced to six years in prison for “conducting anti-state propaganda.”
Only Truong Van Dung’s wife was allowed to attend the half-day t…
Ethnic Karen rebels have attacked and seized a long-held military camp in Kayin state along Myanmar’s border with Thailand, officials with the Karen National Union said Tuesday, calling it the last of the large camps held by the junta along the key Tha…
Journalists in Hong Kong say they are being followed by unidentified law enforcement personnel, prompting calls for a police investigation from their union amid deteriorating press freedom in the city.
The Hong Kong Journalists’ Association said it ha…
Residents in a northern province of North Korea are reporting an increase in violent crime, seemingly driven by a worsening economy, hunger and a lack of affordable food, sources told Radio Free Asia.
The recent killing of two young women during a botc…
Most travelers do their best to avoid extended layovers.
Not Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, who arrives in New York on Wednesday for two nights of what is being billed as “transit” en route to the democratic island’s few remaining allies in Ce…
An opposition activist who was jailed after posting comments on Facebook about the government and Cambodia’s constitutional monarch was released on Tuesday after he apologized to Prime Minister Hun Sen and King Norodom Sihamoni.
The Phnom Penh Municipa…
Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, visiting mainland China amid ongoing regional military tensions, echoed Beijing’s official line on the democratic island on Tuesday, claiming that people in democratic Taiwan and in communist China are “all ethnica…
In Brief
Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou’s trip to mainland China has generated plenty of interest as it is the first time a sitting or former leader from the democratic island has visited communist China.
Taiwanese political commentator Tung…
