Followers of the Evangelical Church of Christ in Vietnam’s Dak Lak province have accused local police of monitoring and disrupting their worship for nearly a month. Their claims came just ahead of…
Month: May 2023
More than 550 doctors fired by Myanmar junta for refusing to work in protest
The junta’s Ministry of Health has fired 557 government-employed doctors who left their jobs to protest against the military government, revoking their licenses at a time when medical professionals are in short…
Opposition officials in Cambodia refuse to denounce Sam Rainsy
Local commune councilors affiliated with Cambodia’s main opposition Candlelight Party on Tuesday walked out of a meeting where they were asked to publicly condemn Hun Sen’s exiled political rival Sam Rainsy, the…
50 nations at UN denounce Chinese human rights violations of Uyghurs
Fifty nations at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday denounced China for its treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region and called on Beijing to end…
No kimchi? Poor harvests, lower incomes mean North Koreans may go without staple dish
It’s a traditional, often communal event that happens every autumn when the weather grows colder, and it is central to Korean culture and cuisine: kimjang, the process of making kimchi, which is…
Specter of invasion of Taiwan looms over future of US-China ties: analysts
While ties between Beijing and Washington appear to be on a more even keel following a ministerial-level phone call, the threat of a possible invasion of democratic Taiwan under the expansionist rhetoric…
Overseas Chinese hold small anti-Xi Halloween march in New York City
Around 30 protesters, many dressed as the white-clad, sometimes violent enforcers of China’s zero-COVID policy, took to New York’s streets on Monday for a Halloween march with a political message: opposing the…
United States likely to base long-range bombers in northern Australia
Plans to station nuclear capable B-52 bombers in the far north of Australia show that the U.S. military is seeking more deterrence options against China as its military strength increases, defense experts…
Solomon Islands province rejects Chinese mobile towers
China’s Huawei is building dozens of communications towers across the Solomon Islands, boosting mobile internet access ahead of next year’s Pacific Games, but the country’s most populous province continues to reject the…
Around 20 Rohingya missing after their boat sank in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region
A boat carrying at least 80 Rohingya sank when it ran aground near Pyapon township in Myanmar’s southern Ayeyarwady region. Around 20 are still missing and feared dead after Monday’s accident, local…