Chinese surveillance unit operating inside Tibetan Buddhist monastery
A Chinese police surveillance unit is operating, apparently for the first time, inside a Buddhist monastery as part of a renewed crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist...
Month : February 2022
More than 4,500 homes razed by military since Myanmar coup
Junta troops have razed at least 4,571 civilian homes since Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup just over a year ago, more than half...
Cambodia’s Hun Sen gives up on Myanmar
Hun Sen officially threw in the towel on solving Myanmar’s political crisis Wednesday, as top diplomats from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepare...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping tells Hong Kong to get control of COVID-19 wave
Ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping has stepped up pressure on the Hong Kong government, telling the city’s leadership to get a handle...
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...
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...
