US bans imports from two Chinese firms over Uyghur forced labor
The Department of Homeland Security has banned imports into the United States of goods produced by a Chinese battery maker and a spice maker due...
Month : August 2023
Junta captures 17 civilians in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region
Junta troops have detained 17 civilians from a village in Myanmar’s southernmost Tanintharyi region, locals told RFA Wednesday. They said the 12 women, two men...
Elephant breeding center promised in 2017 still hasn’t been built, Lao villagers say
A Chinese company that promised to build an elephant conservation and breeding center in remote Xayaburi province still hasn’t completed the project, six years after...
Huge Buddha statue a fig leaf for Myanmar junta atrocities, critics say
Myanmar’s junta inaugurated a 1,700-ton Buddha statue at a grand ceremony in the capital Tuesday that was secretly mocked by citizens used to the military’s...
Solomon Islands newspaper promised positive China coverage in exchange for funding
A Solomon Islands news company was granted more than U.S.$130,000 by the Chinese government in exchange for agreeing to “promote the truth about China’s generosity...
Myanmar junta reduces prison sentences of Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint
Myanmar’s military has cut the prison term of the jailed head of the deposed National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, by six years,...
Did the US ask Taiwan to develop a bioweapon targeting Chinese DNA?
In Brief A major Taiwanese daily reported in July that U.S. and Taiwanese officials met in the South China Sea in 2022 to discuss creating...
Bangladesh wants UNHCR to pay $7M for transfers of imported vehicles
In a move that could disrupt humanitarian aid to Rohingya, Bangladesh has frozen UNHCR’s import license and accused it of irregularities after the U.N. refugee...
