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Former Myanmar army officer calls Rohingya crackdown ‘genocide,’ offers to testify

Captain Nay Myo Thet served in Myanmar’s military for nearly six years in Rakhine state but defected in December and relocated to an…

3 years ago

Tibetan language advocate barred from hotels in Tibet

UPDATED at 12:15 A.M. ET on 2022-04-15 A Tibetan activist traveling to promote language rights in Tibetan areas of western…

3 years ago

Nearly 100 arrested ahead of Thingyan in Myanmar’s Yangon, Mandalay

Authorities in Myanmar arrested nearly 100 people in the country’s two largest cities and the Myawaddy township in Kayin state…

3 years ago

North Korea on high alert ahead of late founding father’s birth holiday

North Korea has declared a five-day military-wide special security period as the people prepare to celebrate the life of the…

3 years ago

Vietnam arrests Facebook user for discussing high-profile financial crimes

Authorities in Vietnam arrested Hanoi resident Dang Nhu Quynh for allegedly posting information on Facebook about the arrest of a…

3 years ago

Cambodian officials move against opposition activists ahead of June elections

Cambodian authorities moved this month to block members of political opposition groups from challenging the country’s ruling party in local…

3 years ago

Japan PM set to visit SE Asia in late April

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning a visit to Southeast Asia later this month to counter China’s growing assertiveness…

3 years ago

Emigration inquiries spike in China amid grueling COVID-19 lockdowns, restrictions

As a citywide lockdown continued in Shanghai and around 100 cities imposed more limited COVID-19 curbs, immigration consultancies said they…

3 years ago

Interview: ‘Do you realize there is also a price to pay for silence?’

Wang Jixian is Chinese national living in Odessa who turned citizen journalist when the war in Ukraine began, posting first-hand…

3 years ago

Hong Kong changes law, forcing owners to give up pets ‘believed’ to have COVID-19

Authorities in Hong Kong have changed the law to force people to hand over pets and other animals believed infected…

3 years ago

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