For a country closed off from the global internet, North Korean does offer its citizens at least a few high-tech conveniences.
In the Miraewon electronic library system, for example, far-flung rural residents can visit their local library to read…
An appeal filed by lawyers for Aung San Suu Kyi has been rejected by the military junta’s Supreme Court – a decision that comes a month after a junta pardon reduced her total prison sentence from 33 years to 27 years.
But the whereabouts of the 78-year…
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned two individuals and a company accused of helping the North Korean regime raise funds for its ballistic missile program, according to a statement released on Thursday.
The sanctions come “in response to the DPRK’s Aug. 2…
Two Vietnamese fishermen were injured when a Chinese Coast Guard vessel fired a water cannon at their boat near the contested Paracel Islands, the latest casualties in China’s aggressive campaign to expand its control in the South China Sea.
Tuesday’s …
A young Cambodian man was kicked out of a state-run school for physical education teachers because he was too short – and then beaten by police for protesting in front of the Ministry of Education in a video that went viral on social media.
Keo Sovannr…