Asia Pacific
Senate Passes Bill to Bolster Competitiveness With China
WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly passed expansive legislation on Tuesday that would pour nearly a quarter-trillion dollars over the...
Cambodia Announces Highest Daily COVID-19 Death Toll — Radio Free Asia
Cambodia Tuesday announced the country’s highest daily coronavirus death toll to date, while an international human rights group called...
ASEAN, Beijing Agree to Self-Restraint in South China Sea — Radio Free Asia
Beijing and Southeast Asian nations have agreed not to escalate tensions in the South China Sea, a joint statement...
Biden Asia chief ‘relatively confident’ on billion vaccine timing despite India crisis
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden's policy coordinator for the Indo-Pacific said on Tuesday he was "relatively confident" a target for...
Kamala Harris engages Mexico on complexities of migration
MEXICO CITY: Vice President Kamala Harris told Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday that the United States...
Senate report details broad failures around January 6 attack
WASHINGTON: A Senate investigation of the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol found a broad intelligence breakdown across...
Myanmar Military’s Killings of Children Are ‘Serious Crimes,’ Says Opposition NUG Minister — Radio Free Asia
Myanmar military forces have killed at least 73 children nationwide in the four months following the February coup that...
US accuses man of fraud for posing as Trump family members
NEW YORK: A Pennsylvania man who impersonated Donald Trump's teenage son and other members of the former president's family,...
Rural Arizona residents wait as wildfire spreads uncontained
PHOENIX: Firefighters in Arizona were fighting Tuesday to gain a foothold into a massive wildfire, one of two that...
Ex-Wisconsin pharmacist gets prison for ruining vaccine
MILWAUKEE: A former pharmacist in Wisconsin who purposefully ruined more than 500 doses of Covid-19 vaccine was sentenced to...