China"s foreign ministry on Monday walked back comments calling into question Ukraine"s national sovereignty from one of its "wolf-warrior" diplomats who told a French TV station over the weekend that the country…
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Leaked memo shows top Communist Party officials intervened in sentencing of Fang Bin
Officials at the highest level of the Chinese Communist Party"s law enforcement arm ordered a court in the central city of Wuhan to drop subversion charges against citizen journalist Fang Bin and…
Myanmar military beheads man in Sagaing region village
Junta troops tortured a man and cut off his head after raiding a village in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing region, locals told RFA. They said troops also burned down 53 houses and a…
Junta’s second bombing of Sagaing village meant to destroy evidence, rebels say
A military airstrike last week on a village in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing region where an earlier attack killed nearly 200 people was part of a bid to “destroy evidence,” a member of…
Japanese woman of Uyghur origin wins seat in Japan’s parliament
A Japanese woman of Uyghur ethnicity and who was educated in the United States has been elected a member of the Japanese parliament — the first person of Uyghur heritage to run…
Weekend attacks in Cambodia’s capital target two more opposition party members
Two more opposition party activists were assaulted over the weekend as they traveled in Phnom Penh – the latest in a series of similar attacks in recent months that members of the…
Chinese aircraft carrier returns to South China Sea
China’s aircraft carrier the Shandong left the Western Pacific and returned to its usual operational area, the South China Sea, the Japanese Ministry of Defense has said. Ten days before this, the…
Former UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki-moon meets with junta leaders in Myanmar
Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made a surprise visit to Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw over the weekend and met with junta chief Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to discuss the country’s political…
Junta helicopter drops bomb on hospital where war refugees were being treated
A hospital in Myanmar’s southern Shan state that’s been providing care to war refugees and civilians was bombed by the military junta on Tuesday, according to a local People’s Defense Force official….
China tightens border controls, slaps travel bans on blacklisted dissidents
Authorities in China are carrying out extensive checks on passengers leaving the country, slapping travel bans at border checkpoints on individuals seen as "politically sensitive," according to rights activists. While bans on…