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Myanmar junta releases thousands of prisoners in New Year amnesty

Hong Kong has arrested 291 people for endangering national security in the near four years since the city’s first national security law took effect ... Show more

The Karen National Liberation Army, an armed branch of the Karen National Union, along with other allied groups, captured the last remaining junta Infantry ... Show more

China expels teacher for pushing for students to use Tibetan language

Myanmar’s junta has begun implementing a conscription law to replenish its depleted ranks.

China has slammed an annual Philippine-U.S. joint military exercise scheduled to begin next week, warning against “maritime provocations.”

💥 Arakan Army attacks another junta border outpost in western Myanmar

A North Korean serves coffee to South Korean reporters at north side of the truce village of Panmunjom, May 10, 2007.Coffee has long been derided as a symbol ... Show more

Nguyen James Han, an American citizen who is a member of California-based Provisional National Government of #Vietnam stand trial before a court in Ho Chi Minh ... Show more

A person walks in flood water caused by heavy rains, with the Burj Khalifa tower visible in the background, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates ... Show more

Prisoners sit in a bus during their release from Insein prison for the Buddhist New Year, in Yangon on April 17, 2024. Myanmar's junta on April 17, 2024 ... Show more

The U.S.-based "Provisional National Government of Vietnam" attracts members with empty promises of jobs and land according to two lawyers who ... Show more   www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/provisional-national-govt-04172024220134.html

Vietnam has mounted an "unprecedented" rescue of Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB), a lender engulfed in the nation’s biggest financial fraud ... Show more

China's internet censors have deleted hundreds of online TV dramas for portraying the negative aspects of family life amid an attempt by the ruling Communist ... Show more

The Mon State Revolutionary Force, or MSRF, and the Mon State Defense Force, or MSFD, agreed on April 7 to share equipment and train and fight together to ... Show more

There were many tears and smiles in #Myanmar on April 17 as thousands of prisoners reunited with their loved ones following their release by the junta during the ... Show more

How the US failed to stop a Cambodian monkey ‘smuggling conspiracy’ ⬇️

A Hong Kong school forced at least one high school examination candidate to stand through a lengthy flag-raising ceremony and official speech to mark China's ... Show more

Mount Ruang releases hot lava and smoke in Sangihe Islands as seen from Sitaro, North Sulawesi, #Indonesia , April 17, 2024. At least 800 people in Sulawesi province ... Show more

US says China is funding America’s fentanyl crisis

Hostages, who were originally held by villagers in a land dispute, walk out after the villagers released them in Dong Tam, outside Hanoi, #Vietnam April 22, 2017 ... Show more

📺 Why does China axe hundreds of TV dramas? ⬇️

A woman wearing hat to shelter from the sun as she carries a basket on her head during a heatwave in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 2, 2024 ... Show more

Myanmar’s military junta moved Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s former de facto leader, from Naypyidaw Prison to house arrest on Tuesday ... Show more

💥A drone attack kills 8, injures 30 in Sagaing region, #Myanmar ⬇️

An artist’s interpretation based on interviews with family and a prisoner depicts Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw Prison, Myanmar ... Show more

For over a year, the whereabouts of Myanmar’s jailed democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been a mystery. But a source close to her legal team told Radio Free ... Show more

China's top spy agency is cranking up its propaganda campaign warning of foreign "spies" to mark National Security Education Day ... Show more

At least 25 ethnic Rohingya civilians were killed and thousands forced to flee their homes amid junta airstrikes and heavy artillery over the weekend in ... Show more

Zumretay Arkin, director of global advocacy and chair of the Women’s Committee at the World #Uyghur Congress, was presented the Freedom of Worship Award at a ... Show more

Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) shakes hands with Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) during a meeting at the Government Office in Hanoi on April 16, 2024 ... Show more

Crew members work near an Air Koryo plane on the tarmac at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China August 29, 2023 ... Show more

On April 10, several Tibetans from a village in Markham county in China's Tibetan Autonomous Region pleaded against Chinese authorities' seizure of pasture ... Show more

Last year, Vietnamese crossings of the Channel doubled from 505 to 1,323. This trend has persisted, making them the largest group of Channel migrants ... Show more

🇨🇳 China in March announced a new baseline (red line) in the Gulf of Tonkin, which has been deemed by experts as “excessive."🇻🇳 This week ... Show more

🕷️💪 Spider-Men scaling Yangon's skyscrapers These man risk their lives to make a living by climbing up apartment buildings and removing banyan trees from ... Show more   #Myanmar

Visitors bow their heads as they stand before the salvaged #Sewol ferry at a port in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, on April 16, 2024 ... Show more

🚨 A Cambodian-Australian opposition supporter known for criticizing Cambodia’s government was severely beaten ⬇️

These photos are of Chinatown district of Honiara, the Solomon Islands capital. Merchants in Solomon Islands' gritty Chinatown were on April 16 preparing for ... Show more

From April 5 to 13, battles erupted between the Myanmar junta and resistance forces led by Karen National Union (KNU) in Myawaddy ... Show more

Soldiers from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and People's Defence Forces (PDF) patrol Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control ... Show more   #Myanmar

🇲🇲 Nearly 50 junta soldiers surrendered to an ethnic armed group in southern Myanmar ⬇️

Children play with a toy gun at a carnival to mark the National Security Education Day in Hong Kong, China April 15, 2024. In March ... Show more

In this photo, Chinese gambling and scam suspects are escorted by the police at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport on April 13, 2024, in Wuhan ... Show more

During coup leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing’s Thingyan – or water festival – visit to Mandalay division’s Pyin Oo Lwin city on Sunday ... Show more

Several Chinese influencers on social media have claimed that professional wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has said he regrets supporting ... Show more

In an interview with RFA, Thai army Col. Nattakorn Reuntib, said he stressed the agreement of “all parties” to make Myawaddy safe zone and a hub for ... Show more

🛡️ Pro-Russian hacking group, "Server Killers," paralyzes North Korea's Air Koryo website in a recent attack. The group mocked the airline's ... Show more

Researchers at Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology suggest that the traditional Mandarin pop ballad, commonly featuring videos of fragile-looking ... Show more

Myanmar refugees join Lunar New Year celebrations in Thailand

🚨 Chinese authorities arrest 4 Tibetans for protest over land grab

Two Vietnamese government sources, familiar with the situation, informed RFA that "relevant offices" in Hanoi are developing a new baseline for the ... Show more

Members of her legal team haven’t seen her since Dec. 30, 2022, at Naypyidaw Prison, when the junta barred them from further visiting her ... Show more

🎼 Mandarin pop song lyrics reveal a shift in understanding what women want ⬇️

Pedestrians walk along a street in Pyongyang on April 15, 2024, as the country marks the 112th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung ... Show more

A historic Tibetan Buddhist monastery is being moved to make way for a dam ⬇️

Four out of five members who responded to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China annual working conditions survey said they had experienced ... Show more

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Chinese authorities began the official relocation of a 19th century Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the northwestern Qinghai province ahead of the launch of the ... Show more

In January, her son Kim Aris, who lives in the United Kingdom, received a letter from her – the first communication from her since the ban on visits ... Show more

Revellers celebrate with water during #Myanmar 's New Year water festival, locally known as Thingyan, in Yangon on April 13, 2024. 📷: AFP

An international pressure group representing writers, artists and journalists is presenting its top award to Vietnamese author ... Show more

A court in Hong Kong has handed a five-year jail term to a dual Portuguese national for "incitement to secession" after he headed a political party ... Show more

🎉 Introducing "RFA Insider" with hosts Amy Lee & Eugene Whong! 🌟 ✨ Amy, our Editing, Translation and Research Associate, and Eugene ... Show more