A Lao rubber plantation worker who was jailed for a year in Malaysia and was presumed dead by relatives returned home to his family in Laos’ Attapeu province this week.
Aloun Phommalath, 24, worked on plantations in Malaysia for four years before he wa…
Two families in southern Vietnam told Radio Free Asia on Friday that their children were recently taken by car to Laos “by a group of human traffickers” who seemed to be preparing to smuggle them into either Myanmar or China.
The number of children who…
As Myanmar’s persecuted and stateless Rohingya minority mark the sixth anniversary of fleeing to Bangladesh, a traditional poetic strain that serves as a means of catharsis is being turned into an instrument of protest.
Rohingya have long sung “Tarana …
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have detained an ethnic Kazakh man for performing Quranic recitations – including at a Muslim wedding, Radio Free Asia has learned.
Kusman Rehim, 56, was detained on July 14 after performing r…
A 35-year-old dissident who served jail time for wearing T-shirts likening Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Hitler fled to South Korea in a daring 300-kilometer (185-mile) escape over the sea by jet ski. The ethnic Korean activist turned up in the South Ko…