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Pro-Democracy Lawmakers Resign in Hong Kong After Beijing Ousts Their Colleagues

Chinese authorities determined that the four expelled lawmakers were a threat to national security.

Defections from North Korea Drop Due to Coronavirus, Refugee-Turned-Lawmaker in the South Says

In an interview with RFA, North Korean refugee turned lawmaker in South Korea, Ji Seong-ho, describes the difficult conditions for defectors from the North.

Protesters March to Cambodia’s Royal Palace

The protesters were relatives of jailed activists from the banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. They were hoping to petition the King for the ...

Zhang has been limiting her food intake to protest her detention after reporting on the coronavirus pandemic out of Wuhan.

Only 20 million people born after 1990 are currently married, around half the rate seen for previous generations.

Jonathan Ross says his candidacy appeared to have generated fear 'in some quarters.'

Tsepa, also called Chenbang, had written articles criticizing Chinese polices in Tibet, leading to several arrests.

Mahmutjan Memetjan, a real estate investor and food market operator, has been detained for four years.

Vietnam’s neighbors Laos and Cambodia also saw rising numbers of infections this week.

Residents say the AA is more effective than the government, which is ‘out of touch’ with the region.

Voters say the process is more inclusive, with a greater number of youth and women candidates.

Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen gets her first shot after waiting to endorse the strategically important Medigen vaccine.

Police raid a gathering at the home of a church member, taking several minors and adults to a nearby police station for questioning.

The stunning change in civil-military relations reflects how nervous the leaders in Hanoi are right now, as the pandemic deepens and the death toll continues ...

The city's government tables a legislative amendment that will likely ban the screening of films with content deemed 'subversive'.

Authorities tell factories and citizens to provide building materials and perform manual labor.

With papers that call them ‘Chinese Turkestani migrants,’ they are vulnerable to Taliban efforts to placate Beijing.

The Rohingya still say they want to return to their homes in Myanmar, but the prospects for their repatriation appear as slim as ever.

Sam Sokha, a former factory worker with two teenage sons, has already served three years and seven months of her four-year prison term, her sister says.

Diplomatic sparring between the U.S. and China began before Kamala Harris landed in the Vietnamese capital.

The arrests come amid a spate of anti-junta bombings and shootings throughout the country.

Huang Liquan says people in the city are filled with 'positive energy' and patriotic feeling.

Kerry Brown says Chinese dissidents and critics of the ruling party are now living through 'dark days.'

Police order key members of the Hong Kong Alliance to turn over its accounts and contacts in overseas organizations or risk imprisonment.

The seizure followed an Interpol red notice that had been requested by Cambodia and forwarded to Indonesian authorities.

The regional CDC hub is designed to enhance health cooperation with ASEAN countries at a time of soaring numbers of COVID-19 infections, officials say.

Drought Destroys Crops in Northwest Cambodia

Farmers worry that, if their crop fails, they won’t be able to repay bank loans or grow crops to support their families.

Many now see the Myanmar military, which has killed over a thousand protesters and other civilians since the Feb. 1 coup, as a common enemy.

The warning comes amid a drive to enforce the use of Chinese as the only language of classroom instruction for Tibetan students.

A ‘Rejection of Reactionary Thought’ law aims to blunt the cultural influence of the larger, wealthier South.