China boosts port surveillance as mpox virus spreads globally
China has stepped up emergency pandemic drills across the country and announced tighter surveillance of incoming travelers amid warnings that a more lethal and transmissible...
Month : August 2024
US approves AUKUS defense sharing deal
The U.S. State Department has approved exemptions from arms-export controls for Australia and the United Kingdom that will allow defense contractors in the two countries...
Junta forcibly recruits dozens of Myanmar nationals deported by Thailand
Junta authorities have forcibly recruited nearly six dozen Myanmar nationals repatriated by Thailand after serving time in the country’s Ranong Prison, family members said Friday....
Dalai Lama talks about life in exile in first speech since surgery
In his first public speech since knee replacement surgery in June, the Dalai Lama spoke on Friday about how living in exile had brought awareness...
EXPLAINED: Why is Cambodia threatening arrests over a 3-nation economic zone?
Cambodia’s top government officials threatened arrests and dispatched a heavy police presence around the country this week to head off protests against the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Triangle...
China fires into Myanmar after junta airstrike on border, group says
China opened fire across the border into Myanmar apparently as a warning to Myanmar military aircraft that attacked an ethnic minority insurgent base, an insurgent...
Are flushed faces of US swimmers evidence of Olympic doping?
Photos of the U.S. women’s 4×100-meter medley relay team at the 2024 Paris Olympics emerged in Chinese-language social media posts alongside a claim that they...
In Senegal, a rare look inside an abandoned North Korean Embassy
Facing a money crunch due to international sanctions, North Korea closed seven of its embassies around the world last year, including one in Dakar. RFA...
Attacks against Rohingyas now ‘worse than in 2017’
Recent alleged attacks against the Rohingya in western Myanmar are “worse than in 2017,” when hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority fled to neighboring...
Myanmar’s old army leader calls on China to help restore stability
A former military leader of Myanmar, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, has called on China to help Myanmar end internal conflict and stabilize the country, according...
