INTERVIEW: ‘China’s people are increasingly aware of human rights’
Twelve years ago, Xia Ming, a politics professor at The City University of New York, published a book in Hong Kong titled “Political Venus,” which...
Month : April 2024
Manila says China obstructs, damages its ships at disputed shoal
Updated April 30, 2024, 04:40 a.m. ET. The Philippines said that Chinese coast guard vessels fired water cannons at two of its ships on Tuesday,...
Thai top diplomat on resignation: Work would slow without deputy PM position
Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, Thailand’s erstwhile foreign minister, said Monday that he resigned because he could not have performed his diplomatic duties effectively after the prime minister...
In Tibet, parents plead for children to help collect caterpillar fungus
It’s caterpillar fungus harvesting season in Tibet, and parents have staged protests urging Chinese authorities to let their children leave a residential boarding school to...
Philippines ‘add eyes,’ takes delivery of mobile radar system from Japan
The Philippine government on Monday took delivery of a Japanese-made mobile radar system that it says “adds eyes” to the air force’s ability to safeguard...
Myanmar guerrilla groups claim responsibility for bombings
Guerrilla groups battling Myanmar’s military have claimed responsibility for a series of bombings in the biggest city of Yangon, group representatives told Radio Free Asia...
Myanmar junta attack on hospital kills 4, many injured
A Myanmar junta airstrike on a hospital in the west of the country has killed four people, including patients and staff, and wounded 15, a...
Vietnam’s National Assembly chairman relieved of duties
Vietnam’s ruling party relieved one of the country’s top lawmakers of his post as chairman of the National Assembly on Friday, media reported, citing his...
Scarborough Shoal was a refuge for Filipino fishermen. Then Chinese boats moved in
One day in early April 2012, a Philippine naval surveillance plane spotted eight Chinese fishing boats inside Scarborough Shoal, a triangular chain of reefs around...
Annual hunger crunch: North Koreans scour fields for leftovers
It’s April, hunger crunch time in North Korea. The potato fields are filled with adults and children desperately hacking at the earth with hoes and...
