China appoints new trade negotiator as US tariff tensions mount
TAIPEI, Taiwan – China appointed Li Chenggang as a new trade negotiator on Wednesday, a key figure in talks to resolve the escalating tariff war...
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Xi Jinping talks of former fights and future shocks on Southeast Asian tour
BANGKOK – Chinese President Xi Jinping ramped up rhetoric of unity in the face of protectionism and shocks to the global order as he continued...
Itinerant Vietnamese monk meets opposition in Sri Lanka – from a fellow monk
A Vietnamese Buddhist monk on a barefoot pilgrimage from his homeland to India ran into some unexpected opposition in Sri Lanka on the latest leg...
Thailand’s auditing industry fails to protect migrant workers: activists
MAE SOT, Thailand – When Shwe Lin heard that an auditing firm was visiting the garment factory where she worked in the Thai border town...
A refusal to die as a child, then work as a medic as a young man
Part of a multimedia series on four RFA staff members who look back on life under the Khmer Rouge fifty years later People streamed onto...
Vietnam to slash provinces as top leader To Lam seeks to consolidate power
Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party approved plans to nearly halve the number of provinces, a crucial step toward enabling top leader To Lam, who faces a...
Pro-democracy banners unfurled at an overpass in China
In a rare sign of public dissent, three pro-democracy banners hung on an overpass in China’s southwestern city of Chengdu early Tuesday morning, according to...
Amnesty International opens Hong Kong section ‘in exile’
Human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday it is opening a new Hong Kong section overseas, three years after closing its office in the territory...
Does a video show ‘panic buying’ in US after Trump introduced reciprocal tariffs?
A video emerged in Chinese-language social media posts alongside a claim that it shows American consumers were panic buying after the U.S. President Donald Trump...
‘Russia lied to us’: Chinese fighters captured by Ukraine tell their story
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Two Chinese nationals captured while fighting for Russia in Ukraine said they were tricked by false promises and online recruitment ads into...
