Chinese police were out in force during a major religious festival in Tibet’s regional capital of Lhasa on Thursday, residents told Radio Free Asia.
It was the latest effort by China to suppress Tibetan religious and cultural expressions by sending a l…

Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29 after decades as a foreign policy adviser and consultant, was highly regarded in Beijing for his key role in the early 1970s U.S. diplomatic opening with China. He was “a world-renowned strategist and a good old fri…

Human rights activists and observers have welcomed Australia’s decision to deny a Burmese soccer team visas to play in the country amid concerns over its ties to the military junta.

Myanmar’s Shan United FC was scheduled to play Sydney’s Macarthur FC …

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday announced new sanctions against two Chinese officials for “serious human rights abuses” against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, as the United States also moved to block imports from three additional Chinese companies du…

Droughts intensified by global warming, described as “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale,” will impact billions of people with dire consequences, including food shortages and famine, said a U.N. report released Friday at the outset of the …

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The world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, China, lags among the “low” performing countries despite growth in renewables, while Indonesia and Malaysia dropped in ranking tackling climate change, according to a new r…

North Koreans working in clothing factories in China must be nearly flawless under new punitive regulations that dock workers’ pay if they produce too many defective garments, residents in China told Radio Free Asia.
The new rules seem to be a way for …

Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone announced to the National Assembly that his government will introduce new measures to address the nation’s prolonged economic woes, including imposing exchange rate controls and regulating food prices.

But workers…

A heavy aerial attack in northeastern Myanmar killed five civilians, an official from an anti-junta women’s organization told Radio Free Asia on Friday. 
On Wednesday night, junta aircraft bombed a village in Namhkan township in northern Shan stat…