Prominent Tibetan Buddhist monk sentenced to 3 years in prison
Read RFA coverage of this story in Tibetan. A Tibetan Buddhist monk who worked as a monastery librarian was sentenced to three years in prison...
Month : September 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Dissident Chinese journalist works on her next book from exile in Thailand
Read this interview in Mandarin. At the far end of a quiet garden courtyard in Chiang Mai, home to a small “village” of exiled Chinese...
Cambodia calls US sanctions of casino tycoon ‘misleading’
Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry on Friday said that U.S. sanctions against powerful businessman Ly Yong Phat were “misleading” and “politically motivated,” adding that the casino tycoon...
Thailand closes 6 schools for Myanmar migrant children in southern province
The Thai government’s sudden closure of six schools in southern Surat Thani province has left nearly 2,000 Myanmar migrant children without access to education, school...
More Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh, as Rakhine state burns
Some 20,000 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh in the last three months as they flee worsening conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, with some new arrivals taking...
China mulls national military training for children, college students
China’s National People’s Congress is considering amendments to the law that would expand compulsory military training at universities and ‘national defense education’ in high schools....
Was London hit by a surprise missile attack in September?
A video of an explosion has been repeatedly shared in Chinese-language social media posts that claim it shows London being hit by a missile in...
North Korea unveils uranium enrichment facility for the first time
North Korea unveiled details of its uranium enrichment facility for the first time, with its leader calling for increasing the number of centrifuges for uranium...
China in delicate dance with Myanmar’s rebel groups
Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese Nearly 2 million people in Myanmar’s northern Shan state are facing a shortage of medicine and other...
South Korea, Interpol confiscate drugs worth $1bn in Golden Triangle
South Korean police in cooperation with the global police organization Interpol confiscated drugs worth about 1.4 trillion won (US$1.04 billion) across the Golden Triangle region,...
