Scores of high-level officials and experts from multiple countries have nominated jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti to receive the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Tohti, 53, was shortlisted for the Peace Prize in 2020 and 2023. He is serving a life sentence, …
Calling China’s far-western Xinjiang “one of the most heavily policed regions in the world,” the Uyghur Human Rights Project published a report identifying the various police forces used to carry out what it said were “atrocity crimes” against the 11-m…
One month into renewed hostilities between the military and ethnic rebels in western Myanmar’s Rakhine and neighboring Chin state, the Arakan Army claims to have seized dozens of junta camps, including major bases along the borders with India and Bangl…
A group of 16 young Laotians trafficked to work as scammers at a Chinese-run casino on Myanmar’s eastern border with Thailand are being punished more severely, struck with rods and forced to stand in the sun for hours, according to several parents.
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North Korea is building new clothing factories due to increased demand for school uniforms, but the factories threaten to kill off a cottage industry of small, often family-run school uniform makers, residents told Radio Free Asia.
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A video shown to Hong Kong’s civil servants as part of a confidential internal training session is an attempt to ‘brainwash’ government officials with Beijing’s claim that the 2019 protests were an attempt by foreign countries to undermine the Hong Kon…
The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning the “abduction and forced assimilation of Tibetan children” by the Chinese government, according to an official press release.
The resolution accuses Chinese authorities of using stat…
Chinese companies are renting and converting buildings into hotels and restaurants in Luang Prabang and constructing hotels in Vang Vieng as they work to develop more tourism facilities along the US$6 billion railway it helped build in 2021, tourism of…
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Against the backdrop of Sino-U.S. tensions, Beijing is investing in Philippine provinces facing Taiwan, according to an interview with a provincial governor and information from Chin…