Fighting flares near state capital in north Myanmar
Junta troops fired artillery into a village in northern Myanmar, killing a man and wounding seven relatives, residents told Radio Free Asia on Tuesday, as...
Month : June 2024
North Korea restores train service to Russia, boosting hopes for tourists
After a four-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, passenger rail service between Russia and North Korea has been restored, with 41 Russian tourists taking...
Police video of detained unofficial Vietnamese monk allays fears
Supporters of an unofficial monk who had become an internet hit but then disappeared for a few days after Vietnamese authorities detained him last week...
Junta hosts junket for Chinese travel agents in bid to attract tourists
More than 40 Chinese travel agency employees and social media influencers were given a junta-led tour of Mandalay, Yangon and the ancient city of Bagan...
Airstrike targets insurgent meeting in Myanmar, 16 killed
A Myanmar military airstrike on a meeting of anti-junta activists in a monastery in central Myanmar killed 16 people, including two monks, and wounded 22...
Sister of North Korean leader warns South on border broadcasts
The powerful leader of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned South Korea of danger after it resumed cross-border propaganda broadcasts, the latest response...
Myanmar’s junta halts passport conversion as Thailand mulls worker amnesty
The junta has halted applications for passport conversions, part of its effort to keep people from fleeing the draft in Myanmar, according to a passport...
At UN, North Koreans beg China to stop sending escapees back
Holding back tears, Kim Kyu-li spoke into the microphone to share her sister’s story, pleading with China to stop sending back captured North Korean escapees....
2 more British judges resign from Hong Kong final appeals court
Two senior British judges have resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court, with one citing the “political situation” in the city weeks after the authorities passed...
Colleagues of VOA Uyghur journalist jailed for their links to him
Authorities in Xinjiang have sentenced five Uyghur former colleagues of a Voice of America journalist to at least seven years in prison because of their...
