North Korean young people are now required to refer to the country’s 38-year-old supreme leader Kim Jong Un as “Respected Father” – generating resentment among youth who consider him to be similar…
Month: May 2023
Smashing window and sending death threats, landlord tries to evict Beijing lawyer
In a bid to evict prominent rights lawyer Li Heping from his Beijing home, the landlord smashed a window of his apartment and issued a death threat, Li’s wife told Radio Free…
Cambodia’s top opposition party officially blocked from July elections
Cambodia’s main opposition Candlelight Party was officially rejected by the National Election Committee on Monday and won’t be allowed to compete in the July 23 parliamentary elections. The decision deals an enormous…
Cyclone Mocha inflicts heavy damage on Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Cyclone Mocha may have been less deadly than predicted, but it inflicted heavy damage on Myanmar’s Rakhine state, including the capital of Sittwe. On Monday, a day after the storm slammed into…
China, Myanmar criticized for attacks on religious freedom in annual U.S. report
China came under harsh criticism for new restrictions on religious freedom in the U.S. State Department’s annual global report on religious freedom, released Monday. Myanmar’s junta was also faulted for its troop’s…
Biden’s planned visit to Papua New Guinea fuels hope and criticism
U.S. President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visits to Papua New Guinea are provoking both excitement and skepticism in a Pacific island country that grapples with poverty, tribal…
Report: EV battery making riddled with rights violations, environmental threats
Human rights violations and environmental abuses were found in two nickel supply chains in the Philippines and Indonesia, home to more than half of the world’s supplies. They provide batteries to companies…
Nearly 400 feared dead after Cyclone Mocha hit Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Nearly 400 Rohingya refugees in Myanmar’s Rakhine state were probably killed by Cyclone Mocha, the country’s parallel National Unity Government and local aid workers told RFA Tuesday. The NUG said the figure…
Philippines: ‘Stronger security cooperation’ with Japan essential for regional peace
The top Filipino diplomat said Tuesday that stronger security ties with Japan were essential for peace in the Asia-Pacific region, as he advocated for enhancing Philippine defenses because of “repeated infringements on our…
Hong Kong removes hundreds of politically sensitive books from public libraries
Hong Kong authorities have removed hundreds of books from the shelves of the city"s public libraries in recent weeks, including books referencing the 1989 Tiananmen massacre that ended weeks of pro-democracy protests…