A delegation of Sri Lankan Buddhists on Thursday presented relics of the Buddha to the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India, in a gesture that was celebrated by hundreds of Tibetans who lined the streets with silk scarves and flowers.
The relics…
A Chinese delegation has traveled to Myanmar in a bid to end the conflict between the junta and the Arakan Army in western Rakhine state, Beijing’s envoy to the United Nations said Thursday, but observers suggest there will be no peace unless the milit…
In two separate incidents, Cambodian police on Friday arrested the leader of a student organization and a senior opposition party activist in the latest examples of clampdowns on critics of the government or official policies.
Koet Saray, who spoke to …
In a case of suspected food poisoning in Vietnam, an elementary school student died after eating breakfast at an eatery in front of her school on Friday, while about three dozen other pupils who did the same fell ill and had to be hospitalized, officia…
A gigantic steel tower in China – part of a tourist attraction with views into the North Korean city of Hyesan – that leans almost over the Yalu River between the two nations could be demolished after several tense interactions between Chinese tourists…
The United States can no longer go it alone on defense technology innovation and the production of military hardware, with shared foes like China and Russia already “outpacing” U.S. capabilities in some key areas, an Australian diplomat said in Washing…
During Ramadan, Chinese authorities have been using a mix of festivals and surveillance to keep the mostly Muslim Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang from fasting, praying and observing the Muslim holy month that ends Monday.
In the city of A…
Chinese police arrested a Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery for staging a solo protest while holding a portrait of the Dalai Lama on the streets of Ngaba county in southwest China’s Sichuan province in March, two sources from inside Tibet and one from …
A tanker truck carrying sulfuric acid from northwestern Laos to a Chinese rare earth mining company flipped over on Wednesday, spilling its contents into a tributary of two major rivers and devastating the local ecosystem, residents said.
The accident…