Senate confirms Kurt Campbell as No. 2 US diplomat

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Joe Biden’s top Asia foreign policy aide, Kurt Campbell, as deputy secretary of state. 
Campbell, previously the Indo-Pacific Affairs coordinator on the White House’s National Security Council, was co…

Burned Bibles and broken homes

Village leaders and residents barged into a private home in southern Laos to stop several families gathered there from holding a Christian worship service on Sunday, several eyewitnesses told Radio Free Asia.
The incident was the latest in a string of …

Hmong activist in Thailand threatened with deportation

An ethnic Hmong preacher and human rights activist released on bail from Bangkok’s Immigration Detention Center said a Vietnamese official threatened him when he refused to return to Vietnam, where he would likely face persecution.
Lu A Da, who was arr…