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…
North Korea cracks down on private home sales ahead of peak real estate season
The buyer meets the go-between in a vacant lot downtown. Money is exchanged and delivered to the seller, who in turn hands over the goods. But this kind of shady deal isn’t…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Baton-wielding Vietnamese police crush protest against drainage project
Swinging batons and bashing villagers, Vietnamese police dispersed dozens of members of the Ede ethnic group who were attempting to interfere with a drainage project they fear will discharge wastewater into a…