Three Chinese naval vessels have arrived at Thilawa Port in Yangon for joint drills with Myanmar’s navy amid insurgent conflict along the neighboring nations’ shared border, according to the country’s military and pro-junta media reports.
Nearly 700 s…
Arfiye Eri moved some audience members to tears when she read the poem “Yanarim Yoq” (“No Road Home”) written by prominent Uyghur scholar and influential educator Abduqadir Jalalidin, who was sentenced to life in prison by China in late 2019. The …
The leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile has met with Canadian lawmakers, government officials and Tibet supporters in Ottawa to urge their continued support for Tibetan causes, including their “freedom struggle,” and raising the issue of China’s huma…
A social media post claiming to be penned by the brother of exiled pro-democracy lawmaker Nathan Law, who is wanted by police under the National Security Law, has called on him to come home and face the music as Hong Kong authorities filed bankruptcy p…
The Philippines has green-lighted a large convoy of civilian boats to bring Christmas cheer to troops stationed on its outposts in the South China Sea, the government said Tuesday, despite some tense standoffs lately with Chinese ships in tho…
Laos is requiring that all of the country’s 6.45 million cell phone users register their numbers by Dec. 16 or risk losing service, citing a crackdown on online scamming and content critical of the government.
Some people welcomed the move as a way to…
A draft law that sought to exert greater government control over Special Economic Zones in Laos was rejected by the National Assembly because lawmakers felt it wasn’t specific enough, sources in the country told Radio Free Asia.
The move comes amid con…
Following the detection of elevated concentrations of synthetic chemicals in the blood of residents in Osaka prefecture’s city of Settsu in Japan, Chinese social media users claimed that these findings were linked to the discharge of treated wastewater…
A wave of respiratory infections that saw hospitals in northern China crowded with sick children last week has spread to the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, as officials sought to reassure the world that no new diseases have been detected.
Hosp…
