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Aung San Suu Kyi, Ruling Party Leaders, Arrested in Sweeping Myanmar Military Crackdown — Radio Free Asia
Myanmar's military has arrested leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s president, and state ministers in wave of detentions ...
Asia Shares Slip For 5th Session, Silver Gets Retail Boost
SYDNEY: Asian shares wavered on Monday amid worries that problems with vaccine rollouts combined with new strains of COVID-19 ...
Myanmar Military Coup Talk Draws Concern From Western Embassies — Radio Free Asia
Alarmed after a string of veiled threats of a coup by Myanmar’s military over unproven claims of voting fraud ...
Uyghurs Losing Circumcision Traditions Under China’s Xinjiang Policies — Radio Free Asia
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are severely restricting the Islamic tradition of circumcision, either by ...
Boats Washed Away When Lao Dam Releases Water Without Warning — Radio Free Asia
Residents living near a small dam in Laos are calling on its operators to warn them before releasing water ...
Jailed Vietnamese RFA Blogger Refuses to Appeal Sentence, Destroys Petition Form — Radio Free Asia
A jailed Vietnamese blogger has refused to appeal his 11-year prison term imposed for writing articles criticizing Vietnam’s government, ...
Lao Village Farmland, Paddies Destroyed by Work on Lao-China Railway Line — Radio Free Asia
Dozens of families in a village in Oudomoxay province in northwestern Laos have been left without use of their ...
Uyghur Language Instruction Absent From Schools in Xinjiang’s Kelpin County — Radio Free Asia
At least one county in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) no longer offers Uyghur language instruction to ...
Ruling Party Membership No Longer Automatic for North Korean Soldiers — Radio Free Asia
North Korean soldiers are no longer a shoo-in for membership in the ruling Workers’ Party, after authorities tightened entry ...