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Local sources told RFA that the fire spread rapidly among the homes, most of which were made of wood.

An ornate straw dragon stuffed with hundreds of incense sticks makes its way through Pok Fu Lam village in Hong Kong – part of a traditional celebration of ...

The unrest continues despite Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s withdrawal this week of an extradition bill that sparked the protests.

It's part of an effort to revive cinema in the South East Asian country.

The Don Sahong dam faces opposition from neighboring nations Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. They’re concerned about the threat it poses to fish migration.

The fishermen were protesting after they were barred from fishing in a nearby lake – evidently because the lake had become too polluted.

Environmental activists have called on Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to put an immediate halt to the development of Boeung Tamok Lake.

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 ...