Vietnam’s leader visits island in Tonkin Gulf near China
Vietnam’s top leader To Lam has made a widely publicized visit to an island north of the South China Sea, seen by an analyst as...
Month : November 2024
Myanmar junta can order migrant workers home to fight, agency says
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s Ministry of Labor has issued a ruling allowing it to call back overseas workers for military...
Vietnamese ascetic’s followers question call to keep order, stop posting
Read more on this topic in Vietnamese. A Vietnamese man who became a social media sensation as he walked around the country promoting the virtues...
Thousands flee fighting in Myanmar’s heartland
Read RFA’s coverage of this topic in Burmese Fierce fighting between junta troops and rebels in central Myanmar’s Sagaing region over the past week has...
Is Southeast Asia ready for the abrupt changes Trump could usher in?
There’s an old Republican saying: “A government strong enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take away everything you have.” Donald...
Myanmar’s Kachin rebels stop rare earth exports to China
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. An ethnic minority insurgent group in Myanmar has closed crossings it controls on the border with China,...
US vows ‘firm response’ to North Korea for sending troops to Russia
TAIPEI, Taiwan – The United States will respond strongly to North Korea’s deployment of troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony...
China hawk Marco Rubio nominated for US secretary of state
WASHINGTON – Marco Rubio, a strident foreign policy “hawk” when it comes to relations with China, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve...
Nothing to Xi here
Cambodia said last month that the Chinese-funded naval base at Ream on the Gulf of Thailand would be open for visits by all foreign navies...
Jakarta seeks to contain fallout from South China Sea agreement with Beijing
JAKARTA – Indonesia is seeking to contain the fallout from a maritime cooperation agreement with China that analysts say appears to indicate a softening of...
