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Indiscriminate shelling kills family in western Myanmar

Heavy artillery in Myanmar’s west killed seven people over the weekend, locals told Radio Free Asia. After the ethnic rebel…

10 months ago

The US need not appease the Communist Party to engage with Vietnam

The death last month of William Beecher, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who, among other scoops, revealed the Nixon administration’s secret…

10 months ago

Junta airstrike hits passenger bus in Myanmar, killing woman

Junta forces dropped an explosive on a passenger bus, killing an elderly woman, locals told Radio Free Asia Tuesday.  Regime…

10 months ago

Authorities urge ‘stability’ amid restrictions on Tibetans due to dam protests

Chinese officials have told local ethnic Tibetans and monastic leaders in Sichuan province to maintain stability following the arrest of…

10 months ago

Tibetans in India march in solidarity with those arrested in dam protest in China

Tibetans and Buddhist leaders in northern India on Wednesday participated in a march to show their solidarity with Tibetans in…

10 months ago

INTERVIEW: How the West has been misreading China for years

Frank Dikötter, author of the "People's Trilogy" about China under of Mao Zedong, has been chair professor of humanities at…

10 months ago

China arrests more than 1,000 Tibetans protesting Chinese dam project

Police on Friday arrested more than 1,000 Tibetans including monks from at least two local monasteries, in southwestern China’s Sichuan…

10 months ago

Airstrikes kill 6, including children, in Myanmar’s Kachin state

An onslaught of airstrikes in northern Myanmar killed six civilians and injured 13 more, rescue workers told Radio Free Asia…

10 months ago

For Uyghur family, a legacy of rootlessness

Tursun Muhammad was thirteen when political persecution forced his family to leave their prosperous farm in Yarkant, Xinjiang, and flee…

10 months ago

N Korea peddles illicit gambling sites to South’s criminal ring

A North Korean information technology group has created illegal online gambling websites and sold them to a South Korean cybercrime…

10 months ago

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