North Korea might be looking for help from abroad in addition to propaganda points at home with a weekend announcement of its first presumed COVID-19 case, a report that blamed the infection on a banished North Korean guy leaving from South Korea, the specialists informed RFA Monday. The state-run Korea Central News Firm (KCNA) reported […]

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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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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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Calls are installing in Europe for member states of the EU to enact legislation requiring that European diplomats, reporters, and scientists be approved access to travel in Tibet, an area mostly limited to outsiders while Chinese nationals can easily take a trip throughout European countries, a Tibet advocacy group stated in a brand-new report on […]

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Abu is a young guy from Taiwan. In 2019, he rode on his bike to Xinjiang, circumnavigated the province for practically 2 months, and shared on social media what he saw and heard. In a video taken in Kashgar’s Old Town in southern Xinjiang, he shared information of his discussions with residents about what actually […]

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North Korea has actually inexplicably closed down access to the border city of Rason, threatening the income of homeowners who take a trip there to do business with close-by China and Russia, sources in the separated nation informed RFA. The city of 200,000 people is within the Rason Unique Economic Zone in North Hamgyong province, […]

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A Hong Kong court on Tuesday slapped a travel ban on pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who is waiting for trial on charges of participating in an “illegal assembly” throughout in 2015’s demonstrations, along with claims of “intimidation.” Lai appeared in court together with veteran democrats Lee Cheuk-yan and Yeung Amount, and was bought not […]

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2 smugglers were savagely beaten by a North Korean anti-smuggling job force this month as the nation’s tolerance of smuggling throughout the border with China has actually paved the way to a crackdown due to issue over coronavirus, a source near the border informed RFA’s Korean Service. North Korea, which Wednesday declared it was totally […]

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The coronavirus pandemic is leaving lots of workers in Vietnam and Laos jobless as organisations have actually been closed down to avoid the spread of the lethal infection, while Myanmar has a hard time to handle great deals of returning migrant workers who lost their tasks in surrounding Thailand and China. Southeast Asia had actually […]

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Thousands of locals of the main Chinese province of Hubei collected in mad demonstration on Friday amidst a physical melee in between their authorities force which of surrounding Jiangxi province at a checkpoint on a bridge in between the 2. A minimum of 5 officers from the Jiangxi side were hurt throughout the clashes, while […]

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