Myanmar’s junta has sent more than 400 soldiers to Demoso township in Kayah (Karenni) State this month, with opposition Progressive Karenni People’s Force (PKPF) and civil society officials saying they expect a major offensive in the near future.
More …
A Taiwanese state-run weapons developer conducted a series of live-fire missile tests on Thursday and Friday as a Chinese warship sailed near the island’s east coast, local media reported.
The National Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NC…
A group of Vietnamese lawyers defending Le Thu Van, a member of the Peng Lei Buddhist House Church, have sent a petition to the authorities of Long An province asking them to suspend their investigation due to her poor health.
In the written request to…
Cambodian labor activists said a visiting United Nations human rights official was given the false impression that the country supports worker rights by authorities who paused a violent crackdown on a months-long protest by a group of former casi…
Continue ReadingPolice in Bangladesh have arrested 10 Bangladeshis linked to the construction of an elevated rapid transit route being built by a Chinese company after a section collapsed and killed five people driving on a road underneath it earlier this week, offici…
Continue ReadingMyanmar junta forces and members of an affiliated militia group torched most of the homes in a village in the central Magway region, another display of the regime’s reliance on arson in its fight to hold onto power 18 months after removing the democrat…
Continue ReadingAuthorities in North Korea have organized “corn inspection squads” that patrol areas near rural collective farms and stop citizens to check their bags for stolen grains, sources in the country told RFA.
The country is suffering from a shortage of food,…
