Middle East

Laos detains staff at hostel linked to backpacker poisonings: media

Police in the Lao tourist town of Vang Vieng have detained staff at a backpackers’ hostel linked to the death…

3 weeks ago

Mayor of Lao tourist town hit by poisoning promises justice for victims

The mayor of the Lao tourist town of Vang Vieng has promised justice for the six foreign tourists who died…

3 weeks ago

Cambodian trafficking victim describes forced marriage, abuse in China

Sok Suosdey had always worked hard to help support her family in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province, on the border with…

4 weeks ago

A forlorn father

Just over a decade after the dramatic downfall of the Chinese Communist Party leader Bo Xilai, a populist princeling rival…

4 weeks ago

Briton, 2 Australians in intensive care after suspected alcohol poisoning in Laos

BANGKOK – One British and two Australian tourists are seriously ill after drinking alcohol suspected of being tainted with poisonous…

4 weeks ago

Five years on, PolyU protesters say they were defending freedoms

Five years after riot police besieged Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University and trapped protesters fought back with catapults and Molotov cocktails,…

4 weeks ago

Myanmar military steps up airstrikes in Shan state, Mandalay; dozens of casualties

Myanmar military airstrikes in northern Shan state and Mandalay region have killed about 30 civilians over the past week, an…

4 weeks ago

Exclusive: How Chinese nationalism is sending jitters through the Arctic

This story was reported with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Read their story hereOn an early morning in late July, a…

1 month ago

US presidential election sparks curiosity in North Korea

North Korean state media has made no mention of Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election but that hasn’t stopped residents - particularly…

1 month ago

Church in village of Myanmar’s Catholic leader bombed in junta raid

Read RFA coverage of these topics in Burmese.Junta forces damaged a church in the home village of Myanmar’s most prominent…

2 months ago

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