Human Rights Watch on Tuesday joined a chorus of NGOs calling for Thailand’s state-owned oil and gas firm to not expand business ties with Myanmar’s junta while the Burmese military carries on with a bloody post-coup crackdown on protesters.The Petrole…
Taiwanese documentary film-maker Wood Lin curated a series of films about the 2019 Hong Kong protest movement at this year’s Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival (TIDF).Lin kicked off the festival with a screening of “Inside the Red Walls”, a…
After seeing how Myanmar’s military used deadly force to crack down on peaceful protests against the Feb. 1 coup that ousted the country’s democratically elected government, a young man from the country’s central Bago region answered a call for volunte…
Local residents questioned the official version of events on Tuesday after an electric bike exploded outside government offices in the northwestern Chinese province of Liaoning, killing one person and injuring five others.A video clip sent to RFA showe…
The niece of prominent Uyghur scholar and linguist-in-exile Abduweli Ayup has been confirmed to have died while being investigated by state security police in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) Prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region…
North Korea has ordered residents of the capital Pyongang to report the number of televisions in each household to stop them from watching banned shows from prosperous, democratic South Korea, sources in the country told RFA.In North Korea, access to m…
Bangladesh is counting on the international community to pressure Myanmar into repatriating more than 1 million Rohingya refugees, after the Burmese junta chief said that Naypyidaw does not recognize them as citizens, a senior lawmaker told BenarNews, …
The owner of the pro-democracy newspaper, Jimmy Lai, is in jail. And Chinese authorities have made no secret of their desire to see the paper close.Source: Copyright © 1998-2016, RFA. Used with the permission of Radio Free Asia, 2025 M St. NW, Suite 30…
A controversial 17-Point Agreement between China and Tibet leading to Beijing’s takeover of the independent Himalayan country was signed by Tibet in 1951 under duress, and was quickly followed by violations of its terms by China, rights groups and expe…
At least five military troops and two members of a local militia were killed during intense fighting in Myanmar’s Kayah state on Tuesday that destroyed a government tank, left residents critically injured, and added to tens of thousands of people displ…
Delegates welcomed the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and urged stakeholders to use the agreement as an opportunity to reopen dialogue and address the root causes of the conflict, as the General Assembly wrapped up its special debate on the …
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