A video has been circulated in Chinese-language social media posts that claim it shows a city in Myanmar after it was hit by a powerful earthquake in late March. But the claim is false. According to a...
Surging inflation in North Korea has some people complaining that they need to carry a backpack full of cash just to go shopping, residents in the reclusive country told Radio Free Asia. Despite gover...
Updated on April 4, 2025, at 1:50 p.m. ET TAIPEI, Taiwan – South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, removing him from office following his short...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – The Philippines said the detention of three Filipinos in China for alleged espionage could be retaliation for Manila’s crackdown against alleged Chinese spies. Chinese authorities...
Read RFA coverage of these topics in Burmese. International aid groups who want to provide assistance to earthquake-hit areas of Myanmar must gain prior approval from junta authorities, said a top mil...
Updated April 7, 2025, at 5:40 p.m. ET U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Monday to nearly double already hefty tariffs on China in an escalating trade war between the world’s two leading econom...
Cambodia has formally re-opened a naval base on its southwestern coast after a substantial upgrade supported by China, but denies it will allow any foreign country to establish a base on its soil. Pri...
Updated April 8, 2025, 5:48 p.m. ET TAIPEI, Taiwan – China said it “resolutely opposes” President Donald Trump’s imminent threat of escalating tariffs even as many other Asian nations scramble...
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. A rebel army and allied forces near Myanmar’s northwestern border with India have seized towns that were previously under the junta control, sources told ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – China’s control of Panama Canal ports is an unacceptable threat to U.S. security, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a visit to the central American nation, underlining U....
