Some 5,000 Rohingya who fled recent fighting waiting to cross to Bangladesh
Approximately 5,000 minority Rohingya Muslims attempting to flee from this week’s fighting in western Myanmar have been waiting for several days near the Naf River...
Month : August 2024
Myanmar junta authorities prevent young adults from leaving the country by air
Myanmar authorities under the ruling junta are now preventing young adults who want to get jobs abroad from leaving the country via Yangon’s international airport,...
Taiwanese boxing gold medal hopeful heads to final match in Paris
Taiwanese featherweight boxer Lin Yu-ting heads to the gold medal match at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, as her government vowed to take legal action...
Four more killed in sweeping crackdown in Myanmar’s Sagaing
Myanmar junta forces shelled a village in the Sagaing region killing four people, residents said, in the latest attack in an anti-insurgent campaign in which...
Did JD Vance say Ukrainians must ‘accept’ their country’s destruction?
A claim emerged in Chinese-language social media posts that Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance said during a 2023 CNN interview that Ukraine as a...
IOC: North Korean athletes never received sanctions-violating smartphones
The 14 North Korean Olympic athletes in Paris have not received the smartphones that were gifts to all athletes, the games’ authority told Radio Free...
Soaring price of shuttlecocks ruffles feathers in China
As viewers around the world focus on top-flight badminton players at the Paris Olympics, bird flu and climate change in China are affecting the supply...
Myanmar junta bombs sleeping village killing seven, rebels say
The Myanmar junta’s air force bombed a village in a strife-torn central region killing seven people as they slept, an insurgent group said on Thursday,...
Did a South Korean legislator propose changing the country’s name?
A claim has been repeatedly shared in Chinese-language social media posts that a South Korean politician proposed changing the country’s name to a transliteration of...
North Korea punishes students and officials for watching banned Korean War film
North Korea has kicked four university students out of school, sentenced another to eight months of hard labor, and fired government officials because they secretly...
