A Tibetan monk jailed for six years for opposing Chinese rule in Tibet has died after suffering failing health following his release from prison in 2018, RFA has learned. Geshe Tenzin Palsang,…
Month: May 2023
Uyghur Canadian leaders urge Trudeau to acknowledge ‘genocide’ in Xinjiang
Uyghur community leaders in Canada asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau why his administration has not followed Canada’s parliament in recognizing the situation in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as genocide. Trudeau met…
Lao police arrest middlemen who issued fake visas for workers to go to South Korea
Lao police have arrested three fraudsters posing as labor recruiters who cheated at least 100 Laotians who paid U.S.$1,000 to more than U.S.$2,000 each for fake tourist visas so they could go…
Chinese health ministry won't release lockdown suicide statistics amid COVID-19 surge
The Chinese health ministry says statistics on suicides under the country"s zero-COVID policy of rolling lockdowns and electronic tracking "are not for release," after reports that a woman threw herself from a…
Indonesia: Putin likely won’t attend G20 Bali summit in person
Russian President Vladimir Putin likely won’t attend next week’s G20 summit in Bali in person, an Indonesian presidential aide said Tuesday, while the American and Chinese presidents are expected to be there….
Young protesters undergo military training, patriotic education in Hong Kong prisons
Authorities in Hong Kong have prosecuted hundreds of minors for taking part in the 2019 protest movement, with many sent for "re-education" and military-style bootcamp training, sparking fears that "re-education" facilities used…
Hun Sen to present ASEAN dignitaries with luxury watches
Staying true to his alleged love of luxury watches, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has unveiled new limited edition timepieces under the ASEAN brand to be gifted to the heads of delegations…
Junta shell kills a woman and injures her husband and baby in Sagaing region
A mortar shell fired by junta troops killed a woman and injured two family members when it struck their home in Wetlet township in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, according to a local who…
Hundreds of police descend on Dong Tam in an attempt to quash land protests
Authorities in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi have sent hundreds of policemen to Dong Tam commune to help the local government build a new Cultural Center in Hoanh village on land claimed by…
China imprisons 2 Tibetan monks for sending donations to Dalai Lama
Chinese authorities in Tibet have sentenced two monks from the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province to prison for sending prayer offerings to the Dalai Lama and the abbot of their monastery, both…