The adage “The first casualty when war comes is truth” remains as relevant today as it did when the U.S. Sen. Hiram Johnson first said it more than a century ago. The recent conflict between Israel and Hamas serves as a reminder of how truth can be ove…
Governments intend to increase their oil, gas, and coal production in 2030 to reach around 110% more than would align to limit global warming based on the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius, despite pledges to cut fossil fuels, a new U.N.-led …
Police in northern Laos are fining villagers who ventured into parcels of land that have been granted to Chinese mining companies, and confiscating any gold the intruders found only to sell it themselves, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.
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Myanmar’s junta and the Russian military are conducting a three-day joint military drill in the Andaman Sea – the first joint navy drill between the two countries amid widespread international condemnation and isolation facing both countries.
The marit…
The wife of slain opposition party activist Po Hin Lean said she filed an appeal to overturn the Provincial Court’s verdict in her husband’s murder case.
Wen Kimyi told RFA on Nov. 8 that the verdict did not “serve justice” for her husband, a supporte…
For the first time since the country’s founding in 1948, North Koreans were given a choice between two candidates in an election, residents told Radio Free Asia, puzzling people accustomed to simply voting for the single, party-approved candidate.
Two …
The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. is sending its three giant pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji — back to China following the lapse of a 50-year-old exchange pact. Pandas in the United States under a program that was an early sym…
Chinese authorities have arrested and detained a Tibetan Buddhist monk from Tashi Monastery in Gansu province for allegedly contacting people outside the far-western region, two people with knowledge of the situation said.
Kunchok Dakpa was …
As authorities back home battle falling birth rates amid an ongoing exodus of young families, Hongkongers are having their babies in the United Kingdom, drawn by educational freedom and affordable healthcare, Radio Free Asia has learned.
More than 144,…