North Korea allows a glimpse inside a rare success story – its women’s soccer
North Korean women’s soccer has enjoyed an unprecedented year of success and the government recently allowed outside news media rare access into its training program,...
Month : April 2025
Hong Kong permits vocal China critic cardinal to attend Pope Francis’s funeral
Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen, previously arrested under the Beijing-imposed national security law, was allowed to leave the city to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in...
400 bombs dropped during junta ‘ceasefire’ in Myanmar: rebel group
Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese. In the nearly three weeks since Myanmar’s military declared a ceasefire to assist earthquake recovery, it has...
US takes step towards deep sea mining in international waters
Updated April 25, 2025, 07.11 a.m. ET BANGKOK – U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to speed development of the deep sea mining...
Cross-strait shadows: Inside the Chinese influence campaign against Taiwan (Part III)
Read “Cross-strait shadows: Inside the Chinese influence campaign against Taiwan” (Part I here and Part II here) TAIPEI, Taiwan – Marketed as a cross-strait collaboration,...
China forces Weibo account for gay community to drop ‘comrade’ from name
A popular account on Chinese microblogging platform Weibo was forced to change its name from “Voice of Comrade” as the term refers to homosexuality, prompting...
UK state energy company will not source solar panels made with slave labor from China
The British government says a new state-owned renewable energy company will not be allowed to source solar panels made with Chinese slave labor. The government...
China’s DeepSeek transferred South Korean user info overseas: Seoul regulator
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Chinese generative AI service DeepSeek transferred Korean users’ personal information to companies in China and the United States without proper consent during...
UN watchdog chief says North Korea’s nuclear arsenal ‘completely off the charts’
TAIPEI, Taiwan – The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday that North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has grown “exponentially,” and urged talks...
InDrive ride-hailing app faces deletion in Laos
Ride-hailing app inDrive is under risk of being scrapped in Laos after recent reports of sexual assaults by drivers that raised concerns over a lack...
