Vanuatu votes in referendum to tame political instability
Vanuatu is voting on Wednesday in its first referendum since independence, with citizens asked to decide on proposed constitutional amendments aimed at preventing party hopping...
Month : May 2024
China cracks down on Tibetans during holy month
Chinese authorities have instructed Tibetan students, government workers and retirees to refrain from engaging in religious activities in Tibet’s capital Lhasa during the Buddhist holy...
Don’t talk to media, Tiananmen massacre families warned ahead of June 4 anniversary
Chinese authorities have ordered relatives of those who died in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre not to give media interviews, while veteran activists who took part...
Myanmar’s junta kills 4 villagers following mass arrest
Junta troops and members of an affiliated militia killed four civilians in central Myanmar shortly after they and 19 other people were rounded up in...
Former China politics lecturer slams curbs on university research
Since he published an open letter criticizing “Cultural Revolution-style” ideological controls of China’s higher education system, former Tsinghua University politics lecturer Wu Qiang has found...
Dozens of Taiwanese celebrities endorse Beijing’s claim on island
Dozens of artists and actors from Taiwan have been lining up on social media to endorse Beijing’s territorial claim on the island by retweeting a...
INTERVIEW: ‘Most easily corrupted’ Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar form scam epicenter
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) recently published a study on the cyber scamming industry in Southeast Asia finds that a decision in 2022 by...
Northern Myanmar residents caught up in fighting, dozens hurt
Fighting in northern Myanmar trapped 40 people and wounded dozens, witnesses told Radio Free Asia on Monday, as the war between the junta that seized...
South Korea condemns North’s plan to launch a satellite
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday called for the international community to “respond decisively” if North Korea launches a satellite. “Any launch using...
Researchers grapple with the tightened data landscape in China
Until two years ago, Peter Irwin, a Washington D.C.-based researcher, was able to access Chinese court data to track the number of Uyghurs being sentenced...
