INTERVIEW: How the West has been misreading China for years
Frank Dikötter, author of the “People’s Trilogy” about China under of Mao Zedong, has been chair professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong...
Month : February 2024
Cambodia gears up for Senate election on Sunday
Cambodia is set to hold elections for its Senate on Sunday that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party will almost certainly win, which would make former...
Junta ramps up guest list inspections in Yangon and Mandalay
Authorities in Myanmar’s largest cities Yangon and Mandalay have ramped up housing checks in the two weeks since the junta enacted the country’s military conscription...
China arrests more than 1,000 Tibetans protesting Chinese dam project
Police on Friday arrested more than 1,000 Tibetans, including monks from at least two local monasteries, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province after they protested the...
No quick recovery for China’s falling home prices
China’s home prices have continued to drop, extending the decline in January as newly-built and second-hand property prices slid further, according to data from the...
Over 100 scam gang suspects arrested in Myanmar
Junta troops arrested over 100 people while raiding a casino on the Thai-Myanmar border, locals said on Friday. The compound was the site of an...
Former prisoner says Vietnamese police took his money
Former prisoner Le Van Sinh has accused the police in Vietnam’s Ninh Binh province of taking 400 million VND (US$16,260) that he’d stashed in the...
Myanmar’s military recruiting Rohingya at displaced camps
Myanmar’s junta is offering freedom of movement to Rohingya Muslims restricted to camps for the displaced in Rakhine state as part of a bid to...
Fleeing conscription, over 160 Myanmar nationals in custody at Thai borders
Thai officials have arrested 167 people fleeing Myanmar since the country enacted its conscription laws, a migrant assistance organization told Radio Free Asia. From Feb....
Two-month travel ban extended in western Myanmar
Myanmar’s regime extended a travel ban in a conflict-ridden coastal area, locals told Radio Free Asia on Thursday. The ban prevents Rakhine state residents from...
