Tag: Asia

China's struggles with energy shortages and the effects of extreme weather are raising questions about conflicts in government policies. ...

Laos’ Golden Triangle SEZ in 2-Week Lockdown After Chinese Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19 — Radio Free Asia

Lao authorities have placed the northwestern Bokeo province’s Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, a casino entertainment district that ...

Shanghai Reports COVID-19 Outbreak, Locks Down Residential Community — Radio Free Asia

Authorities in Shanghai have confirmed at least six new cases of COVID-19, imposing a localized lockdown on a residential ...

Myanmar Demands Bangladesh Repatriate Hundreds of Hindu Rohingya Refugees — Radio Free Asia

Myanmar has called on Bangladesh to repatriate more than 400 Hindu refugees who were among the 2017 exodus of ...

New Hong Kong Bar Chair Vows to ‘Protect the Independence of the Judiciary’ — Radio Free Asia

Hong Kong’s Bar Association elected veteran human rights barrister Paul Harris as its new chairman Thursday to replace Phillip ...

Vietnamese Facebook User Gets Seven-Year Term For Ridiculing Leaders — Radio Free Asia

A court in southern Vietnam’s Hau Giang province jailed a Vietnamese Facebook user this week for seven years for ...

Post-Pandemic Southeast Asia Faces a Crisis of Authoritarianism – The Diplomat

January 21, 2021

AdvertisementAs the historian Niall Ferguson pointed out in his recent Bloomberg column, pandemics have a way of unalterably changing ...

Victims Demand Tougher Punishment For Cambodian Police Convicted of Torture, Murder in Detention — Radio Free Asia

January 21, 2021

Four villagers who were tortured by police in Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province and the widow of a fifth man ...

Lao Fishermen Stranded in Malaysia Go Home, Others Still Wait to Return — Radio Free Asia

January 21, 2021