China is dredging in a bay at Woody Island, its greatest settlement in the South China Sea, most likely to broaden the synthetic island’s northwest corner, satellite images shows. This advancement in the contested Paracel island chain, in the northern part of the South China Sea, comes amidst installing issue in Southeast Asia over China’s […]

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Lao residents are voicing increasing inconvenience at the look in the nation of signboards at business locations and constructing sites composed just in Chinese, seeing them as a sign of their effective northern next-door neighbor’s growing financial impact in the impoverished one-party communist state. The signs, often with words composed likewise in Lao however in […]

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Reporters’ associations in Hong Kong have actually composed to the United Nations calling for assistance to end police violence versus them. The Hong Kong Reporters Association and the Hong Kong Photojournalists Association composed to U.N. companies in a protest about duplicated violence portioned to reporters by the Hong Kong police. Considering that the anti-extradition demonstrations […]

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Japan and the members of the Southeast Asian bloc voiced issues Thursday over increasing stress in the South and East China Seas, as China’s assertiveness grows and ASEAN thinks about when to resume settlements with Beijing on a standard procedure. Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Countries, or ASEAN, will hold a virtual top […]

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Sam Brownback is an attorney, former United States Senator and former guv of the state of Kansas who has actually worked as the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom given that February 2018. He talked to RFA Uyghur Service Director Alim Seytoff on June. 24 about U.S. President Donald Trump’s enactment recently of the Uyghur […]

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A new COVID-19 outbreak at 2 significant factories in the North Korean commercial center of Chongjin has actually triggered authorities to block the nation’s 3rd biggest city, an extreme action not seen in Pyongyang’s preliminary substantial actions to the pandemic in January, sources informed RFA. While North Korea openly declares that it has actually not […]

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China has actually increased its pace of deep sea surveys in the South China Sea, fretting other countries and claimant states. Specialists state that the mapping of the sea flooring is a pressure method in challenged waters and might assist China’s Navy in keeping track of submarine traffic. China has the world’s biggest fleet of […]

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Ships bring grain identified as “construction materials” have actually been cruising from a northeastern Chinese port to close-by North Korea, dockworkers informed RFA, explaining a secret operation run during the night kept to prevent international analysis. North Korea, which has actually had problem with persistent food insecurity for years, suffered a substantial financial shock in […]

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North Korean people working in China on family check out visas have actually all of a sudden been identified “defectors” and face arrest, captured in a federal government campaign to challenge exiles after groups based in South Korea sent out anti-Pyongyang brochures on balloons, sources in the nation informed RFA. North Korea formerly paid little […]

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Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen stated Monday he is grooming his eldest son Hun Manet to take control of leadership of the nation however has no strategies to step down for another years, verifying long-held suspicions that the strongman plans to develop a dynasty. Speaking throughout an examination of a building website for the brand-new […]

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