East Asia

Shanghai entrepreneurs demand political reform, release of prisoners of conscience

As Shanghai residents celebrated a partial end to a weeks-long, grueling city-wide lockdown, calls emerged on Wednesday for industrial action by businesses…

2 years ago

Chinese forces step up exercises around Taiwan, South China Sea

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has intensified activities around Taiwan and in the South China Sea in an apparent response…

2 years ago

Rural North Koreans turn to deer blood, counterfeits as COVID meds go to Pyongyang

North Korea is sending most of its reserve medicines to the capital Pyongyang, leaving rural citizens in the lurch, with…

2 years ago

Uyghur groups urge resignation of UN rights chief for ‘Potemkin-style’ Xinjiang tour

Uyghur rights groups are calling for the United Nations human rights chief to resign after they said she reiterated Chinese…

2 years ago

China faces diplomatic setback in its push for influence in Pacific islands

China and 10 small Pacific island nations have failed to sign a Beijing-initiated agreement amid concerns in the region about…

2 years ago

Philippines summons Chinese diplomat over ship’s ‘harassment’ in South China Sea

Manila summoned a senior Chinese diplomat to protest the China Coast Guard’s alleged “harassment” of a joint Filipino-Taiwanese research ship…

2 years ago

UN: 1 billion meth pills seized in East, Southeast Asia last year

Tons of methamphetamine have been produced, trafficked and used in East and Southeast Asia where a record 1 billion methamphetamine…

2 years ago

Analysts: US notches win in wooing ASEAN countries to join economic deal

The United States has scored a win in its efforts to counter Beijing’s influence in Southeast Asia by getting most…

2 years ago

China tightens grip on activists, dissidents ahead of Tiananmen massacre anniversary

Authorities across China are tightening security and ramping up surveillance of dissidents ahead of the Tiananmen massacre anniversary, RFA has…

2 years ago

Taiwanese pilot dies in military training exercise

A Taiwanese air force pilot died on Tuesday morning during a training exercise in the south of the island, the…

2 years ago

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