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The military budget is just over a quarter of planned US spending this year.

Wang Kelian, near Thailand, is where graves of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants were found in 2015.

Philippine Coast Guard calls their presence off Pag-asa a ‘blatant violation’ of territorial integrity.

No one is willing to challenge the strongman, even as he slips deeper into his paranoia and delusions.

The armadillo-like anteaters are in demand for the supposed medicinal benefits of their scales.

A couple killed on the eve of their wedding, a photographer and a nurse who resisted the junta.

Radio Free Asia recorded testimony of victims and bereaved loved ones from the outbreak of the war in Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, and key episodes in the Korean ...

Myanmar’s artists strive to survive, create two years after the coup. A gallery offers community art therapy, while exiled artists support civil resistance.

Chinese video depicts Uyghur man as drug dealer

RFA Uyghur service director Alim Seytoff says the video reinforces China’s “dehumanization and even demonization of the Uyghur people.”

The National People's Congress will likely see a reshuffle of security, intelligence and financial powers.

Three Burmese companies have also been added to the Entity List, banning American exports to them.

Setiwaldi Kerim, a middle-school teacher and writer, is serving a 19-year prison sentence.

The reshuffle also means Beijing wants Hong Kong to play a role in any military action targeting democratic Taiwan

Two teenagers captured by junta forces were apparently beheaded alive.

A rights group says there is ‘no acceptable reason’ for the move and called for his release.

Dozens of rights activists, petitioners and dissidents are under detention or surveillance as Beijing cracks down

The NLD says they supported graft claims against Aung San Suu Kyi and upcoming ‘sham’ elections.

No one is believed to have been injured in the attacks in central Naypyidaw.

The Cambodia National Rescue Party co-founder has been placed under house arrest.

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Ice wall climbing in Ladakh, India

“No room for error.” Myanmar’s palm sap collectors put their lives on the line

The sap is used to make palm wine and jaggery, a traditional sweet.

Five teams from a border patrol force deployed along the Tibet Autonomous Region participate.

Former British officials, lawmakers say their government should do more to help political prisoners with U.K. ties

A retired NASA engineer tells RFA he was shocked to learn that he had been accused of working for the CIA.

Desperate acts driven partly by belief that orphanages have international food aid.

'Tough and draining year.' The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China reports press freedoms in decline

Regional bloc cannot use consensus decisions to stay indifferent to rights violations by Burmese junta, he says.

Body parts, meat grinder and vats of soup containing human tissue were found at suspect’s rented property

The case had lingered since his 2017 arrest on unsubstantiated treason charges.