Vietnamese workers at electronics plant strike for higher pay, more benefits
More than 2,000 workers at a Korean electronics company factory in Vietnam’s Red River Delta went on strike on Monday, following a successful worker action...
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Report documents ‘war crimes’ in Myanmar’s Kayah state
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should back a U.N. Security Council-mandated arms embargo prohibiting the sale of weapons to Myanmar’s junta, an international...
Bribes allegedly grease the wheels for Chinese truckers at backed-up Laos border gate
Chinese truck drivers at the Lao-Chinese border are bribing traffic police in Laos to skip extremely long lines of trucks that are waiting to get...
Journalists warn of chilling impact of Hong Kong’s planned ‘fake news’ law
Journalists in Hong Kong say the government’s draft law banning “fake news” could make it harder for independent news outlets to operate, as well as...
‘People’s Administrations’ supplant junta rule in Myanmar’s remote border regions
One year after Myanmar’s coup, anti-junta “People’s Administrations” are consolidating power in the country’s Sagaing and Magwe regions and Chin and Kayah states amid increased...
Surge in daily COVID-19 infections caps record week in Myanmar
Nearly 1,800 people were confirmed positive with COVID-19 in a 24-hour period over the weekend in Myanmar, capping off a record week of infections that...
Two more Hong Kong universities remove massacre-related memorials from public display
Authorities at two more universities in Hong Kong on Friday removed memorials to the 1989 Tiananmen protests and the massacre of civilians that ended them, following the...
China’s Xi’an under lockdown amid surge in COVID-19, hemorrhagic fever cases
Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Xi’an have placed the city of 13 million under lockdown, amid a sharp rise in the number of...
Tibetan political prisoners denied family visits over ‘COVID concerns’
Authorities in western China’s Sichuan and Qinghai provinces are barring family visits for Tibetan prisoners held in political cases, citing concerns over the spread of...
Exporters from Southeast Asia suffer as China locks down borders
Exporters from Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam are in dire straits after China recently shut down its borders to prevent the spread of COVID-19, leading to...
