2025 ASEAN chair Malaysia expected to revive bloc amid questions about neutrality
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia will take over as the 2025 chair of ASEAN amid regional expectations that it will restore the Southeast Asian bloc’s relevance...
Month : December 2024
Uyghur intellectual died while in custody of Chinese authorities
A Uyghur intellectual and educational activist, who was arrested the night before his daughter’s wedding five years ago, died only two months later while in...
Chinese censors target writers in nationwide crackdown on online erotic fiction
Chinese internet censors have targeted dozens of writers of online erotic fiction across the country since June, in a bid to crack down on “pornographic”...
Myanmar junta chief urges peace after troops suffer setbacks
Myanmar’s junta chief has reiterated a call for insurgents battling to end military rule to make peace, saying his government was strengthening democracy, his latest...
Rights group urges govts to reconsider funding Vietnam energy plan
Read more on this topic in Vietnamese. An international pressure group is calling on governments and financial institutions to reconsider funding a plan to help...
Laos must appease China or embrace austerity to reduce staggering debt
The communist apparatchiks who run Laos must appease China if they are to stop their national debt crisis from worsening and avoid an outright default....
Teenagers fight US militarization of Palau with UN complaint over rights violations
Read this story on BenarNews KOROR, Palau — School students in Palau are taking on the United States military with a legal complaint to the...
New flight to connect Tibet’s capital with Singapore
Read RFA coverage of this story in Tibetan. Come Christmas Day, Tibet’s capital will see its first flight to Singapore take off from Lhasa Gonggar...
Is Southeast Asian irredentism something to worry about?
Why has Southeast Asia, hardly a pacifist region in previous centuries, been so peaceful since 1991? The end of the Cold War; regional cooperation in...
Bosnian Genocide survivors reflect on the parallels with Uyghurs’ suffering
Survivors of the Bosnian Genocide 30 years ago told Radio Free Asia that they see parallels between their suffering and the experiences of Uyghurs in...
