Cambodia’s controversial canal project gets boost on Xi visit
A pet project of Cambodia’s ruling Hun clan to build a canal linking the capital with the Gulf of Thailand got a boost as Chinese...
Month : April 2025
Trade war with US triggers wave of factory ‘holidays’ in China’s export hubs
As the U.S.-China trade war heats up, businesses in major export hubs in southeastern China are announcing factory “holidays” – halting production and slashing employee...
Chinese rights lawyer Lu Siwei sentenced to 11 months in prison
Prominent Chinese rights lawyer Lu Siwei, who was arrested and deported from Laos in 2023, was sentenced behind closed doors in China to 11 months...
OPINION: RFA Uyghur Service is a light that pierces the darkness of China’s rule
When I was a Uyghur child living in communist China in the 1970s, we had no way of knowing what was happening around the world,...
ASEAN chair talks to Myanmar’s exiled government officials for the first time
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s exiled civilian government held a meeting with the chair of the regional bloc ASEAN for the...
Trump says tariff deal with China likely within 3-4 weeks
TAIPEI, Taiwan – U.S. President Donald Trump said that Washington and Beijing were in talks on tariffs, expressing confidence that the world’s two largest economies...
Sri Lankan police pull plug on Vietnamese monk’s tour until he changes visa
Sri Lankan police on Thursday blocked Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Minh Tue from continuing his barefoot journey around the South Asian island until he changes...
Luck got him through the Pol Pot years – and across the border to safety
Part of a multimedia series on four RFA staff members who look back on life under the Khmer Rouge fifty years later Poly Sam was...
China appoints new trade negotiator as US tariff tensions mount
TAIPEI, Taiwan – China appointed Li Chenggang as a new trade negotiator on Wednesday, a key figure in talks to resolve the escalating tariff war...
Xi Jinping talks of former fights and future shocks on Southeast Asian tour
BANGKOK – Chinese President Xi Jinping ramped up rhetoric of unity in the face of protectionism and shocks to the global order as he continued...
