Myanmar junta airstrike kills children playing by a church, group says
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s air force bombed a church where displaced people were sheltering near the border with China killing...
Month : November 2024
Biden lets Ukraine use long-range US missiles to hit Russia, North Korea troops
TAIPEI, Taiwan – The United States authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes into Russia, media reported, in a response...
HSBC restructuring a chance to rescue UK’s Hong Kongers from transnational repression
HSBC’s recently-announced plan to split into four businesses from Jan. 1 offers the British multinational bank a chance to correct a wrong against tens of...
US lawmakers mark East Turkestan National Day with Uyghur community
Updated Nov. 15, 2024, 6:50 p.m. Read RFA coverage of this topic in Uyghur. U.S. lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill in Washington this week to...
Cambodian opposition activist flees to US amid Hun Sen threats
A former Cambodian opposition party official who fled to Thailand several years ago has arrived in the United States days after Senate President Hun Sen...
China’s young unemployed ‘pretending’ to work in libraries, cafes
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Chinese. Rampant youth unemployment in China has left millions of young people floundering, living at home, relying on...
Fresh Chinese support may not be enough to save Myanmar junta
Myanmar’s military dictator, Min Aung Hlaing, returned from a five-day trip to China, his first since the February 2021 coup, with promises of further Chinese...
Rubio as US top diplomat could be a win for Southeast Asian human rights
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio as his secretary of state is likely to send a jolt of excitement to beleaguered democrats...
Residents in Myanmar feel the crunch as trade with China shuts down
Residents in northern Myanmar are facing shortages of food and other supplies as China imposes restrictions on small-scale, informal trade, Radio Free Asia has learned....
Kim Jong Un wants North Korea to mass produce suicide drones
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants the country to begin mass production of suicide drones, raising concerns that Pyongyang could potentially send these to...
