Asia Fact Check Lab: Are 70,000 master degree holders in China delivering food?
In Brief Amid public concerns about the gloomy job market in China, a 2021 claim that more than 70,000 master’s degree holders in China worked...
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Attacked with knives and acid, Cambodian artist calls for arrest of 2 assailants
A Cambodian artist living in Thailand has called on authorities in the two countries to arrest and bring to justice two foreign nationals believed to...
No drinking, singing and fun allowed during 7 days of forced mourning for Kim Jong Il
North Korea is in the midst of a seven-day period of forced mourning to mark the 11th anniversary of the death of former leader Kim...
Senior Lao official admits that many government entrance exams are staged
A senior Lao government official has admitted that civil servant entrance exams are often staged to make way for candidates previously selected, and called for...
Myanmar junta sentences former Central Bank official to 20 years in prison
A court in Myanmar has sentenced a former senior official with the country’s Central Bank, who was arrested in the aftermath of last year’s military...
UNICEF plans big expansion of program to educate Rohingya children in Bangladesh
Starting in 2023, UNICEF plans to extend a pilot program to educate Rohingya children at upper grade levels who are living at refugee camps in...
Dagon University student sentenced to another 7 years in prison
A court in Yangon’s Insein Prison has sentenced Ye Lin Oo, who served on the central executive committee of Dagon University Students’ Union, to a further...
Grisly discovery: Six civilians brutally slaughtered in Myanmar’s Mandalay region
Residents in central Myanmar made a grisly discovery on Wednesday when they stumbled upon the corpses of six civilians who worked at a local motorbike...
U.S. blacklists 36 Chinese tech firms
Two of China’s biggest chipmakers, Yangtze Memory Technologies and Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment, are among 36 Chinese companies effectively banned from importing components from the...
Unable to return home, Rohingya risk their lives to leave refugee camps
Human rights defenders are seeing a surge in potentially deadly boat journeys by Rohingya refugees as they try to reach countries in Southeast Asia where...
