Numerous migrant jade prospectors continue to search slag stacks for pieces of the valuable gems amidst unsafe conditions throughout the monsoon season in Myanmar’s Hpakant mining location, despite a deadly mudslide that eliminated approximately 200 scavengers in early July. Heavy rains set off the collapse of big stacks of muddy waste referred to as tailings […]

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Timothy Grose is a teacher of China Research studies with know-how in ethnic policy at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana. He just recently composed a post entitled, “If you don’t know how, just learn: Chinese housing and the transformation of Uyghur domestic space,” in which he argues that policies executed by the Chinese […]

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North Koreans who stop working to wear masks deal with a minimum of 3 months of “disciplinary labor” with harsher charges for people captured slipping into China under tough new COVID-19 avoidance measures, authorities in the nation informed RFA Thursday. The penalties, to be imposed by trainees conscripted into facemask patrols, were presented today in […]

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10 Tibetans drew stiff jail terms at the end of June in China’s Gansu province after trying to obstruct building and construction of a slaughterhouse and requiring settlement for taken land in demonstrations that Chinese authorities stated had “disturbed social order,” RFA has actually discovered. Founded guilty at the end of a two-day trial held […]

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Malaysia on Wednesday required countries to refrain from “military posturing” amidst stress in the South China Sea, 2 days after Washington revealed a harder position on Beijing’s territorial claims in the objected to waterway. Malaysian Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein required cooperation amongst Southeast Asian nations in fixing stress in the maritime area as he made […]

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The supervisor of a Chinese fishing boat has actually been apprehended on charges of attack and human trafficking after the death of an Indonesian team member whose remains was found recently, authorities in Indonesia’s Riau Islands stated. Indonesian authorities apprehended 2 Chinese boats as they cruised near Singapore on July 8 after authorities got a […]

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President Donald Trump provided an executive order Tuesday ending Hong Kong’s preferential trade treatment and signed a costs that would sanction people and banks who abet the disintegration of Hong Kong’s autonomy, in the most recent U.S. reaction to a severe brand-new security law Beijing troubled the city. The Hong Kong Autonomy Act attends to […]

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Vietnam has actually cancelled its agreement with an oil well initially indicated to start checking out at an oil field near Lead Bank, off Vietnam’s southeastern coast, the owner of the rig has actually validated. The cancellation comes as China applies pressure on Southeast Asian countries that wish to make use of resources in the […]

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The United States on Monday revealed a harder stance versus China’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea, stating them illegal and implicating Beijing of dealing with the challenged waters as a “maritime empire.” In a declaration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated there were “no legal grounds” for China’s extensive maritime claims. He officially […]

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More than half a million people ended up in Hong Kong over the weekend to vote in main elections to choose pro-democracy prospects for September’s basic election. Around 580,000 people had actually cast mainly electronic votes by the end of ballot on 9.00 p.m. regional time on Sunday in spite of warning keeps in mind […]

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