China places Lanzhou under lockdown amid fresh wave of delta COVID-19 cases
China

China places Lanzhou under lockdown amid fresh wave of delta COVID-19 cases

Four million people are ordered to stay home, as the government tries to get people to have a third booster shot.

China shutters China Unicom branch account after fried rice gag about Mao’s son
China

China shutters China Unicom branch account after fried rice gag about Mao’s son

China Unicom's Jiangsu branch posted a recipe for egg fried rice on the anniversary of Mao Anying's birth.

Vietnam rail debt to China comes due, but trains don’t run
Vietnam

Vietnam rail debt to China comes due, but trains don’t run

The Cat Linh-Ha Dong rail line in Hanoi remains behind schedule and costs have soared.

Myanmar’s junta-appointed election commission pushes change to voting laws
Myanmar

Myanmar’s junta-appointed election commission pushes change to voting laws

Observers say the move would hand more power to the military, which already controls 25 percent of parliament.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gives field guidance for the construction of homes along the Potong River in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea in this file photo.
North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un builds luxury villas over grandfather’s old home

“Very slowly and skillfully, but clearly, they are erasing the traces of Kim Il Sung,” said a Pyongyang resident.

Bangladesh police suspect link in killing of Rohingya leader, six other refugees
Myanmar

Bangladesh police suspect link in killing of Rohingya leader, six other refugees

Authorities have arrested 19 people allegedly involved in the separate attacks, including two who confessed.

Ted Osius, who was ambassador in Vietnam from 2014-2017, in undated photo.
Vietnam

China’s ‘bullying’ in S. China Sea helped advance US-Vietnam ties, says former envoy

2021-10-25

Former US envoy Ted Osius discusses his efforts to turn former war foes into friends.

Satellite imagery shows work taking place on the southern tip Pearson Reef in the South China Sea on Friday.
Vietnam

Vietnam land-filling on disputed reef in Spratlys, imagery shows

2021-10-22

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‘It was like the whole region had turned into an open-air prison,’ photographer says of Xinjiang

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China makes soft power hard

China makes soft power hard

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Police manhandle demonstrators at the French Embassy in Phnom Penh

Tortured Myanmar political activist in critical condition after arrest
Myanmar

Tortured Myanmar political activist in critical condition after arrest

Ko Jimmy suffered a head injury from torture in detention, his family says.

Ilham Tohti, an outspoken scholar from China's Turkic Uighur ethnic minority, speaks during an interview at his home in Beijing, in Feb. 4, 2013 file photo.
Uyghur

Jailed Uyghur scholar Tohti’s 52nd birthday brings fresh calls for his release

Ilham Tohti is serving a life sentence for ‘separatism’ for his work to end discrimination against Uyghurs.

Myanmar's national flag (center) appears with flags of other ASEAN member countries in Bangkok in a file photo.
Myanmar

ASEAN set to open summit, but Burmese junta threatens to skip it

A Tibetan pilgrim prays next to a Buddhist shrine in Tibet's regional capital Lhasa, June 3, 2021.
Tibet

Chinese tourists crowd Tibet’s Lhasa amid COVID surge in Chinese provinces

The logo of rights group Amnesty International is shown in their Hong Kong office, Oct. 25, 2021.
China

International rights group will leave Hong Kong amid crackdown on dissent

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Myanmar's forests under pressure from illegal logging, smuggling

Myanmar's forests under pressure from illegal logging, smuggling

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