Myanmar
Rare photos of Aung San Suu Kyi spark renewed calls for her release
Myanmar military releases images of jailed former leader receiving books and letters from Britain’s King Charles.
Tibet
Tibetan rights group: South Africa arson attack is transnational repression by CCP
Police are still investigating the firebombing of the Dalai Lama representative’s home office in South Africa.
Uyghur
Uyghur activists urge Rubio to raise rights concerns with Central Asian officials
Uzbekistan trip is a chance to reassert U.S. moral leadership by pressing the C5 to protect Uyghur communities.
Uyghur
China covered up the cause of a detained Uyghur father’s death
Police confirm to RFA that Yasinjan Toxti died in their custody in 2018, not in a traffic accident.
Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi phone call is ‘political calculation’ by military-backed government
Advocates demand full release of Myanmar's former leader after her first contact with family in 5 years.
Laos
China-Laos air base could be another Southeast Asian forward outpost for Beijing
Like Ream Naval Base in Cambodia, Ban Keun could lay the groundwork for increased Chinese presence, analysts said.
Myanmar
‘I hope that she will be free before long’ Aung San Suu Kyi’s son Kim Aris says
Kim Aris talks to RFA after his first direct contact in 5 years with his mother, under house arrest in Myanmar.
South China Sea
Duterte impeachment: bribing elites is China’s strategy, military official says
Philippine government launches national security probes into Chinese influence.
Pacific
After US accuses Fijian of corruption for China, experts warn of region-wide network
“Illicit disruptors” in Pacific allow Beijing to benefit from illegal activity while offering plausible deniability
Korea
Exclusive: North Korean army video says K-drama watchers deserve to be executed
Used in ideological training sessions, the video calls offenders as “traitors” who “gouged out their own eyes.”
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