Month : December 2021

Roots, dried fruits, leaves and berries used in traditional Chinese medicine preparations are increasingly contaminated with chemicals, including pesticides and preservatives, experts told RFA during...

Voters look set to stay away from the weekend’s legislative elections in Hong Kong in record numbers, despite wall-to-wall government propaganda urging them to cast...

The Chinese military has been holding more live-fire drills in the contested South China Sea this week, state media reported, while accusing the United States...

Thailand is giving shelter to some 2,500 Burmese who fled from fighting between Myanmar junta forces and Karen rebels in Mae Htaw Thalay, a borderland...

Western nations this week condemned Vietnam’s jailing of four dissidents, including land-rights activists and an award-winning journalist, calling their sentences an attempt to stifle free...

Myanmar’s junta is confident that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will repair its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), but analysts say...

Authorities at Yangon’s Insein Prison have refused to allow medical treatment to nearly 90 detainees who were brutally beaten a week ago during a nationwide...

A U.S. university president who is a former governor of Indiana has condemned Chinese nationalist students in his state who harassed a Chinese pro-democracy graduate...

Less than a third of registered voters turned out to vote in elections for Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) on Sunday, in the first election to...

A slew of raids in recent months conducted by German police and partnering authorities appear to be taking aim at Vietnamese smuggling and human trafficking...