China’s ruling Communist Party is calling on the country’s businesses to invest in infrastructure projects to stimulate domestic demand and reboot the flagging economy, but analysts said the plan looks like an attempt to seize private sector assets as …

Thai officials are divided over a potential plan to allow Chinese police to be stationed in Thailand to boost confidence among tourists from the world’s No. 2 economy about whether the kingdom is safe to visit.
Although the nation’s police chief has ex…

Sixteen Lao workers released from a Chinese-run casino in Myanmar in August have arrived home in Laos after a two-month stay at a police station, family members told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
The workers have said that they were victims of human traff…

The Chinese Embassy in Turkey has rejected a request to release a critically ill Uyghur man serving a 20-year sentence in northwest China’s Xinjiang region so he can rejoin his family in Istanbul and receive medical treatment there, his wife said.
Mexm…

China’s official news outlet claimed that the United States is “expanding its stockpile of nuclear warheads” and “possesses the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.” 

But the claims are misleading. While some legislators are calling for such an expan…

As a satirical YouTube animation satirizes a dystopian future for China using scenes from the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, the city’s police force has announced that its officers will soon be boarding buses to “fight crime.”

The 11-minute animation use…

On Oct. 27, the Northern or “Three Brotherhood” Alliance, consisting of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, the Arakan Army and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, launched “Operation 1027” – named for the date of the offensive. Two weeks s…