More than 130,000 teachers remain a part of Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement, or CDM, made up of government employees who have walked off the job to protest the military’s February 2021 coup d’etat, the country’s shadow government said Thursday.

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Ethnic Kachin rebels are pressuring more than 600 people to move out of a village so they can take over gold and jade mining in the area to fund their fight against Myanmar’s ruling junta, residents told Radio Free Asia. 
Officials from the Kachin…

Reporters for North Korea’s state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper are increasingly using their status and freedom to travel for economic gain, obtaining rice and other food in exchange for favorable stories, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.&n…

Authorities in Laos told American and United Nations diplomats that detained Chinese rights attorney Lu Siwei was still in the country, even after he was sent back to face detention in China, his wife told Radio Free Asia in a recent interview.

Lu, wh…

Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have cut the number of weekly Mongolian language classes from schools across the region, Radio Free Asia has learned.
The move comes as schools complete the phasing out of Mongolian in favor …

A claim making the rounds on social media states that more than 180 U.N. member states, including the United States, subscribe to the “One China principle.” This is a core conviction of the People’s Republic of China – that Taiwan is an inalienable par…