Promoted as “Just Paradise,” Lord Howe Island hundreds of kilometers east of Australia is a unique environment home to plants and fauna found nowhere else in the world. This pristine and remote remnan...
Chinese authorities have detained a young man for unfurling pro-democracy banners this month at an overpass in Chengdu in southwest China – a rare form of public protest that is punishable as a crimin...
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Some families have waited as long as one month to receive critical aid in the aftermath of Myanmar’s earthquake, which killed over 3,700 people, victims and...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – China and the Philippines have staged rival flag-raising displays on a contested sandbank in the South China Sea, further escalating tensions between the two nations. The standoff occ...
BANGKOK – Three Uyghur men with Kyrgyz passports who languished in Thai detention for more than a decade were resettled in Canada earlier this month, an advocacy group said Monday, avoiding the ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – North Korea on Monday acknowledged for the first time that it deployed troops to Russia to support Moscow’s war against Ukraine, saying its soldiers “completely liberated the occupied...
BANGKOK – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been talking up the benefits of free trade, in the face of a China-U.S. tariff war that threatens the global economy, during a meeting with Vietnam...
Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen, previously arrested under the Beijing-imposed national security law, was allowed to leave the city to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in an apparent show of leniency for ...
North Korean women’s soccer has enjoyed an unprecedented year of success and the government recently allowed outside news media rare access into its training program, a move likely intended to boost i...
BANGKOK – U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to speed development of the deep sea mining industry, including in international waters governed by a U.N. treaty that most nations...
