Myanmar’s junta shuts down public hospital in wartorn township
Junta authorities closed a public hospital and several private clinics in a wartorn area of Myanmar’s western Rakhine state and ordered doctors and other medical...
Month : March 2024
Junta navy arrests around 80 Rohingya off Myanmar coast
Myanmar’s junta navy arrested around 80 Rohingya attempting to flee the country by boat, residents who witnessed the event told Radio Free Asia on Thursday. ...
Fiji resets police cooperation with China, scraps short-term deployments
Fiji will continue police cooperation with China but won’t have Chinese officers stationed inside its force, a government minister said, following a review of security...
Overseas activists vow to keep fighting despite new Hong Kong security law
Overseas activists have vowed to keep up their campaign for Hong Kong’s promised rights and freedoms amid international condemnation of the city’s second national security...
Trafficked Cambodian teenage girl returns from China
A 16-year-old Cambodian girl who said she was tricked by job brokers, sold to a Chinese man who held her against her will in Zhejiang...
Vietnam’s president forced to step down due to corruption scandal
Vietnam’s president has resigned after just a year in the job, taking responsibility for a corruption scandal involving regional government officials, state-controlled media reported Wednesday....
Vietnam local govt bans Buddhist pagoda repair
The government in Vietnam’s Ba Ria-Vung Tau province is blocking the repair of a 35 year-old Buddhist pagoda because the religious group that owns it...
Health authorities on alert as anthrax infects 14 in southern Laos
More than a dozen people have been infected by anthrax in two districts in southern Champassak province and authorities have responded by placing restrictions on...
Sam Rainsy says West can still influence Cambodia
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Tuesday he believes the United States and European Union can still push his country back on a path toward...
Blinken stresses ‘ironclad’ support for Philippines in South China Sea standoffs
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Philippine counterpart in Manila on Tuesday to lay the groundwork for a summit between the leaders...
