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‘All I could think was, I’m about to die’ – Taiwanese couple trafficked to Cambodia

Beginning in the second half of 2021, Taiwanese nationals were lured by high-paying jobs to Cambodian scam rings where they…

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Well-known Tibetan painter of religious art dies at 82

Tenpa Rabten, a prominent painter of Tibetan religious scrolls called thangkas, has died at the age of 82, RFA has…

2 years ago

North Korea holds emergency wartime readiness drills for hospitals

Wartime readiness drills designed to test the capabilities of county and city-level hospitals in North Korea showed an exhausted medical…

2 years ago

Two Tibetan monks sentenced for possessing photos of Dalai Lama

Chinese authorities sentenced two Tibetan monks to at least three years in prison for possessing photos of the Dalai Lama,…

2 years ago

UN human rights chief issues damning report on Chinese abuses in Xinjiang

UPDATED at 9:29 p.m. EDT on 8-31-2022 China’s repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in its western Xinjiang province…

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Myanmar junta forces said to have burned tens of thousands of homes

Myanmar’s military junta has burned nearly 30,000 homes across the country during the past 19 months following the coup that…

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Dissenting voices speak out against ongoing zero-COVID restrictions in China

Dissent against the Chinese government's zero-COVID policy has been growing in recent days, with protests over restrictions in the southwestern…

2 years ago

In Myanmar, Vietnamese firms learn the political risks of backing the junta

Vietnamese firms are confronting political risk from overseas investments as the price of doing business with Myanmar’s brutal military regime,…

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Interview: Chip magnate Robert Tsao comes home to Taiwan to fight the communists

  The founder of a major Taiwanese chip-founder has reapplied for nationality of the democratic island after naturalizing as a…

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UN official says Cambodia faces ‘severe’ human rights issues

Cambodia’s government should remove restrictions on political participation and introduce other democratic reforms to address “severe human rights challenges,” a…

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