About 200 families in central Cambodia say they are in danger of losing hundreds of hectares of farmland – with or without compensation – to a Chinese gold mining company expanding its excavation area.
Late Cheng Mining Development Co., Ltd., received …
Myanmar’s junta is using internationally-banned cluster bombs to attack rebel forces in ethnic areas of the country, said residents, officials from armed ethnic groups and an international campaign working to eradicate the weapons.
Cluster bombs, …
The United States is working to ensure the Association of Southeast Asian Nations does not end a pressure campaign against Myanmar’s military junta when Laos takes over as chair of the regional bloc from Indonesia next year, a top U.S. diplomat said on…
Faced with a weak property market, a lackluster economy and growing local government debt, authorities in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian have come up with a solution — sell off empty homes to people across the channel in Taiwan.
An econo…
Five North Korean prisoners awaiting trial on charges like robbery, rape, murder and illegal cattle slaughter escaped from prison, and three of them are still on the run, Radio Free Asia has learned.
Taking advantage of lax security while they were rep…