Fighting between junta troops and the ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, has driven more than 1,000 people from northeast Myanmar’s Shan state across the border with China to seek shelter, according to residents.

The group is the latest …

Major state-owned companies across China are setting up corporate militias under the direct management of local garrisons of the People’s Liberation Army, according to official reports.
Shanghai Municipal Investment Group, a major property and infrastr…

China’s internet censors have deleted a photo of two embracing runners displaying the taboo combination of “6” and “4,” an inadvertent reference to the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre that authorities have tried to cover up.

Photos of sprinter…

A manager at a North Korean pharmaceutical warehouse was publicly executed last month for stealing 20,000 doses of penicillin, sources inside the country said.
The man, who was in his 40s, was shot to death on Sept. 25 in Hyesan, a northern city in Rya…

Thirty-five families who lost their homes and land to a golf course project in southern Laos have been compensated, but another 200 families have yet to receive anything, state media reported.
The 35 recipients, from Muang village in Champassack provin…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will lead a bipartisan group of six senators on a trip next week to China, South Korea and Japan, with reports they hope to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
The delegation will include Democrats Maggie …