Middle East

Beijing’s zero-COVID policy snags Lao exports to China via new railway

Costly and time-consuming customs-clearing procedures put in place as part of China’s zero-COVID-19 restrictions are making it difficult for Lao…

3 years ago

Nearly 40 Buddhist clergy killed and 40 jailed since Myanmar coup

Nearly 40 Buddhist clergy have been killed, and 40 others jailed, since Myanmar’s military took control of the country in…

3 years ago

Viral Shanghai lockdown video-maker deletes own work amid rumors of detention

The creator of a viral video about the Shanghai lockdown has said he has deleted it, and that rumors of…

3 years ago

Vietnam says it discussed army games with Russia, not military drills

The Vietnamese Defense Ministry says that a meeting this month with Russia did not discuss a joint military exercise as…

3 years ago

Soaring unemployment in Myanmar follows junta rollback of labor rights

Thu Thu, a 37-year-old laborer living in Shwepyithar township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon, has been trying to…

3 years ago

Hong Kong’s Chinese University evicts student media as PolyU cuts ties with union

A Hong Kong university has evicted a student newspaper and radio station, after another cut ties with its student union,…

3 years ago

Children of Myanmar’s conflict zones deprived of key immunizations

Children whose families have fled fighting in Myanmar’s conflict zones are being deprived of essential immunizations due to lack of…

3 years ago

Hun Sen favors cronies with parcels of drained lake land

Cambodian’s autocratic Prime Minister Hun Sen has doled out at least 900 hectares of land reclaimed from one of the…

3 years ago

Mystery fences spring up blocking Shanghai streets overnight amid ongoing lockdown

Mysterious fences have begun appearing overnight blocking city thoroughfares in Shanghai amid a grueling COVID-19 lockdown affecting some 26 million…

3 years ago

Chinese police order residents to hand over passports ‘until after the pandemic’

Police in the central Chinese province of Hunan have ordered local residents to hand over their passports to police, promising…

3 years ago

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