Hun Sen officially threw in the towel on solving Myanmar’s political crisis Wednesday, as top diplomats from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepare for a retreat at which the junta’s failure to honor its commitments will likely loom…

A Chinese police surveillance unit is operating, apparently for the first time, inside a Buddhist monastery as part of a renewed crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist religious institutions, a Tibetan with knowledge of the situation said.
Officers were install…

A Uyghur educator and principal of a high school in Korla (in Chinese, Kuerle) in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region is serving 18 years in jail for inviting two Uyghur scholars to give presentations, people with knowledge of the situation and a loca…

A pair of U.S. F-35 fighter jets are on display at an airshow in Singapore this week, vying for potential customers in a volatile region. But Washington won’t sell its most-advanced warplanes to just anyone.
Several key U.S. allies already have F-35s, …

Women who applied to authorities in Feng county, in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, for a divorce have been turned away in recent years despite claiming that they were trafficked and forced to marry, a state-backed media organization reported …

Ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping has stepped up pressure on the Hong Kong government, telling the city’s leadership to get a handle on mushrooming COVID-19 cases, as the country pushes ahead with its zero-COVID policy.”Recently, g…

Chinese dams along the Mekong River hold a massive amount of water in their reservoirs, but the government in Beijing might need to be paid to release water for downstream communities afflicted by droughts, a panel of experts said Tuesday.
More than 70…