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A Chinese artist has been fined for “illegal filming” of folk music in Xinjiang – even as China promotes state-sponsored performances of Uyghur singers and dancers in Europe that have angere...

TAIPEI, Taiwan – North Korean forces deployed in Russia’s Kursk region may soon be sent into annexed regions of Ukraine that remain fiercely contested by Russian and Ukrainian forces, a senior Ukr...

Part of a multimedia series on four RFA staff members who look back on life under the Khmer Rouge fifty years later Poly Sam was 11-years-old when the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh on the same d...

TAIPEI, Taiwan – China appointed Li Chenggang as a new trade negotiator on Wednesday, a key figure in talks to resolve the escalating tariff war with the United States, replacing veteran negotiator ...

Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese Myanmar released almost 5,000 prisoners for its Buddhist New Year’s amnesty, including 13 foreigners, on Thursday, the junta announced on state-owned broad...

BANGKOK – Chinese President Xi Jinping ramped up rhetoric of unity in the face of protectionism and shocks to the global order as he continued his Southeast Asian tour on Thursday amid a tariff war ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan – A recent update to Google Maps now prominently displays the label “West Philippine Sea” over waters west of the Philippines, fueling discussion about a longstanding territorial ...

Nuon Mayourom had just turned 18. She wasn’t ready to get married, but the Khmer Rouge had other ideas. The Maoist regime controlled all aspects of life in Cambodia, including who you married. She w...

A Vietnamese Buddhist monk on a barefoot pilgrimage from his homeland to India ran into some unexpected opposition in Sri Lanka on the latest leg of his circuitous journey around Asia. A witness told ...

AsianScientist (Apr. 16, 2025) – As climate change continues to disrupt traditional agricultural cycles around the world, scientists in Japan have discovered new chemical compounds that can regulate...