Junta policies that restrict packages to jailed inmates and permit prisoners to be transferred to remote facilities without notifying relatives are negatively impacting the health of political prisoners in Myanmar, their family members told RFA Burmese…

Junta troops have carried out 22 massacres across Myanmar since the February 2021 military coup, according to an independent research group based in Yangon.
The massacres – defined as the killing of 10 or more civilians at once – have left more than 50…

The leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile has urged the international community not to follow China’s decision to replace the use of the term “Tibet” with “Xizang” as the romanized Chinese name on official diplomatic documents. 
Chinese media and …

At least 41 volunteer teachers in northeastern Laos have resigned, leaving many schools short-staffed as the former teachers seek paying jobs amid high inflation and a weak economy.
There are more than 7,600 volunteer teachers across the country, but d…

The U.S. Army private who sprinted into North Korea in July and was returned home to the United States last month has been charged with desertion and remains in military custody, according to multiple media reports.
Travis King, a 23-year-old Army priv…

North Korea is building free homes for people in the countryside, but the homes are impractical for the realities of rural life, residents told Radio Free Asia.
A total of 650 homes were newly built between July and September in the mountainous norther…

Hundreds of thousands of acres of rice paddies have been destroyed amid flooding caused by heavy rains in southern Myanmar’s Bago region, according to residents, leaving the region’s farmers debt-ridden and struggling to stay afloat.

The devastation p…

The ruling Chinese Communist Party is moving to step up “patriotic education” in schools, universities and religious institutions across the country, including in Hong Kong, state media reported on Friday, in a move likely designed to quash internal po…