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But the children say catching fish is getting harder. Fishermen in the region use explosives and electric shock devices, depleting fish stocks.

They thought they accepted high paying jobs. Instead, they found themselves trapped at sea in dangerous and maddening surroundings.

A military turboplane crashed while on a routine flight near the capital, Naypyidaw, killing all five crew members onboard.

Scores of children are killed and maimed each year in Myanmar’s long-running ethnic wars. According to RFA reporting, at least four civilians have been killed ...

Authorities ‘encourage’ citizens to hang gold-starred banners from their windows during the lunar New Year holiday.

Some farmers have replanted their flowers, but it’s uncertain if the plants will bloom before Tet starts later this month.

The flooding occurred after the spillway for the Swar dam in central Myanmar’s Bago region collapsed due to heavy seasonal rain.

The flooding has damaged 37 homes and displaced 102,000 people. Hundreds of schools throughout the region have closed.

One monk said the flooding triggered by tropical storm Noul was the heaviest in 50 years.

The flooding occurred after torrential rainfall forced authorities to release 4,000 cubic meters per second of water from a reservoir above the Nam Ngun 1 dam ...

Officials say up to 150,000 people have been affected by the flooding, and at least 21 people have died.

Sources told RFA that restaurants along the Nam Song River also were damaged in the flooding.

Vietnam is bracing for even further destruction as typhoon Sarika approaches.

The urban landscape is changing Quickly as city authorities build more and more overpasses in their battle to unclog traffic gridlock.

Once an Asian powerhouse, Myanmar's football fortunes suffered a precipitous decline under the former military junta whose 50-year reign ravaged the economy ...

Eighteen families living in an enormous natural cave in southwest China are unsure how a new cable-car will affect their peaceful lives.

James Frankel, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, says you can’t have religious training in China without the sanction of the government.

The wife of reporter Aung Kyaw Naing says doctors found bullet wounds and signs of torture.

Police shot and killed the operator, Wang Zhihua, who reportedly was angry due to unpaid wages.

Aung Ko Htway faces up to two years in prison after he told RFA about his experiences as a minor conscripted into Myanmar’s military.

The inmates are demanding to be freed as part of a series of prisoner amnesties that the Myanmar government has conducted over the past two months.

One year ago, massive protests erupted in Hong Kong against government plans to allow the extradition of criminal suspects to mainland China. Now, a new round ...

Wang Quanzhang is one of several lawyers who have been jailed as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s nationwide crackdown on rights lawyers over the past ...

Yangon’s largest dumpsite has been on fire for six days. Dozens have been hospitalized after inhaling smoke and carbon monoxide from the fire.

Wedged between five countries, Laos for decades has played a starring role in Asia’s “Golden Triangle” drug trade.

As many as 14 million Chinese will have cosmetic surgery this year, up more than 40 percent from 2016.

Truck drivers have long waits on the important link between Myanmar and China.

Police detained more than 20 people for disturbing social order.

Hong Kong pro-democracy supporters lined up outside makeshift polling stations over the weekend -- including a lingerie boutique and a vintage bus -- to choose ...

The Myanmar government says there are no cases of covid-19 in the country. But human rights groups say that’s unlikely.