Radio Free Asia
Tibetan rights group: South Africa arson attack is transnational repression by China
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- Tibetan rights group: South Africa arson attack is transnational repression by China
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- Authorities are still investigating Wednesday’s firebombing of the Dalai Lama’s representative office in South Africa, police told Radio Free Asia, as activists accused China of having a hand in the attack.
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- Exclusive: North Korean video warns soldiers of execution over foreign media
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- A North Korean video warns soldiers that they could be punished - and they should be executed - for watching foreign media, a recording obtained exclusively by Radio Free Asia reveals.
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- Will the indigenous Aeta give up their land for a Philippines tech project?
- Runtime
- 2:40
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
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- The indigenous Aeta people of Sapang Kawayan, less than 50 miles north of Manila say they won't give up their land for the Pax Silica project, which the Philippine government says will create jobs and bolster the economy.
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- Could airstrikes by Myanmar's military government lead to peace talks?
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- An airstrike carried out by Myanmar’s military in territory controlled by the Arakan Army killed at least 50 people on September 28.
The U.N. said it was one of the deadliest airstrikes in Rakhine State since the coup in 2021. Fortify Rights said that the attack could constitute a war crime.
Rakhine politicians and analysts tell Radio Free Asia that the military-backed government is attacking civilians to bring the rebel Arakan Army to the negotiating table.
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- US bipartisan congressional delegation meets Dalai Lama during India trip
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- A bipartisan delegation of U.S. lawmakers Wednesday told Radio Free Asia that China is a threat for engaging in transnational repression, after a meeting with the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, in his home.
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- US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast to Tibetans: 'We stand with you'
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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- U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, arrived in Dharamsala, India, and will meet the Dalai Lama this week.
A reporter asked Mast if he had a message for the Tibetan people. He said: “We stand with you.”
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- After 30 years, RFA is still standing, because truth needs a voice.
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- 0:35
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- Myanmar military airstrike kills dozens in market area
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- A military airstrike on a market in Myanmar's Rakhine state killed dozens on Monday, the Arakan Army said.
A witness who requested anonymity for safety reasons saw more than 30 bodies at the scene on Monday afternoon, where human remains were visible among smoldering wreckage and cratered roads, AFP reported.
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- Uyghurs rally in Washington against Xi Jinping's US visit
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Uyghur community members and activists marched to the White House on Thursday evening to demand action over Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs and Tibetans.
"So many of us live in a constant state of grief," said Omer Kanat of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
Rushan Abbas, executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, rejected China's framing of the issue as internal: "Modern slavery is not an internal matter."
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- China's Xi Jinping at Trump state dinner as Uyghurs, Tibetans protest
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Tibetan and Uyghur activists rallied in Washington as U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping and first lady Peng Liyuan for a state dinner in the East Room of the White House.
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- 'Not welcome': Tibetans protest Xi Jinping's visit with Trump
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- Tibetan activists rallied outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Thursday with a message for Chinese President Xi Jinping: "Not welcome."
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- Tibetan, human rights advocates protest Xi Jinping's US visit in Washington
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- 0:28
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- Tibetan and human rights advocates marched Thursday in Washington to protest Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States.
Experts expect President Donald Trump to work with Xi on trade. Tariffs, U.S. soybean exports and supply chains lead the agenda.
Minority advocacy groups urge Trump to use the summit to spotlight Chinese government policies they say perpetuate human rights abuses and genocide.
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- China's Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan are welcomed by U.S. President Trump and Melania Trump.
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- The greeting broke with normal protocol, where U.S. presidents greet State Visit guests at the White House.
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- China tried to derail this Philippines official with a note. What did it say?
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- At the 2026 Seoul Defense Dialogue, the Philippines defense minister received a note from a Chinese official while he was speaking. What did it say?
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- Bridges to China, Russia preparing to open as North Korea deepens ties with both
- Runtime
- 2:37
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows rapid progress on a new road bridge connecting North Korea and Russia across the Tumen River, while construction is also accelerating on a long-delayed bridge linking North Korea and China.
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- Kyirong Port in Tibet lies in ruins after floods
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- As Chinese officials raised the official death toll from the Nepal-Tibet mudslide to 43 on Saturday, a Tibetan resident told RFA on Sunday that 26 people died in Risur village, Kyirong county, alone, where the Kyirong (Gyirong in Chinese) border post is located.
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- Pacific Islands Forum statement denounced China's July missile test.
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- 1:56
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Sources in Tibet and Nepal reveal stories of flood destruction, survival
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- As the death toll from last week’s glacial flooding disaster at the Tibet-Nepal border surpassed 1,000 on Tuesday, sources inside Tibet told Radio Free Asia that a group of 10 Tibetan travel guides are among the missing.
AFP reported that more than 4,500 people were missing, but both the death toll and the number of missing could be higher, as exiled Tibetans and advocacy groups have accused China of underreporting casualty totals on the Tibetan side of the border.
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- They built a fake company to hire North Korean IT workers
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- What happens after a company hires a North Korean operative? Two researchers built a fake company to find out, hired three of them and published it all.
#cybersecurity #northkorea
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- Before and after: Nepal-Tibet floods
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Satellite imagery taken at the Nepal-Tibet border shows extensive destruction from flooding and landslides that inundated the area Wednesday leaving hundreds of people dead or missing, but information from the Chinese-controlled side of the border is severely lacking, Tibetan rights activists told Radio Free Asia.
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- Kiribati detained a Chinese ship ... because of shark fins?
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- RFA's Eugene Whong explains how Kiribati detained a Chinese ship when its maritime police found shark fins on board.
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- Nepal-Tibet floods kills at least 160
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Rescue teams rushed to find hundreds of people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 160, according to AFP.
Many of the missing are foreign tourists, officials said of the disaster that wiped out entire villages. The death toll appeared likely to rise.
A clip of surveillance video from the Chinese side of the frontier shows a raging wall of mud and debris crashing over a building several stories high on Wednesday morning, engulfing it as dozens of people run for their lives below. The surge sweeps away buses and cars like they are toys.
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- China resumes demolition of major Tibetan Buddhist academy
- Runtime
- 2:54
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- What do satellite images reveal about Larung Gar?
They show Chinese authorities in Tibet expanding the demolition of the Buddhist academy over the past month.
Read more: https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/08/19/larung-gar-china-demolition-buddhist-monks/
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- Can China get the Pacific countries to align with its five-year plan? w/TAFI's Jonah Bock
- Runtime
- 16:07
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The Alliance Futures Initiative, or TAFI, a Washington-based think tank recently published a report that documented a targeted campaign to promote Beijing's latest five-year plan by nine Chinese Embassies in the Pacific. RFA's Eugene Whong interviewed the author of that report, Jonah Bock, who is TAFI's assistant director for research.
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- Why Vietnam's Gen Z is angry: The Hanoi crash case no one was charged for
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- A tree in Hanoi was buried in flowers after the government spent 14 months explaining nothing.
Here is what young Vietnamese found, and what happened when they refused to stop asking.
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- Caught twice escaping North Korea. She tried again.
- Runtime
- 2:44
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Three attempts. Two imprisonments. One river.
Jang Eun-sook was 14 when smuggled South Korean dramas showed her another world. This is what it took to reach it.
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- Satellite images show Laos' new Mekong River dam
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows construction underway on Pak Beng, Laos' latest large-scale hydropower project.
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- If China got everything it wanted in the Pacific, what would that look like? w/ Jonah Bock, TAFI
- Runtime
- 2:39
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- RFA's Eugene Whong interviewed Jonah Bock, research lead at The Alliance Futures Initiative on a report he authored on China's governance model export.
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- Thai IDs, legal work give hope to Myanmar refugees
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- After decades of being barred from leaving the camps and working legally, Myanmar refugees and their children began receiving non-citizen Thai ID cards, a step away from statelessness and towards legal employment.
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- Taiwan launches annual military drills as pressure from China grows
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Taiwan's largest military drills of the year begin as the island democracy attempts to prepare its population for a potential Chinese invasion.
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- North Korea Has Its Own 'Clash of Clans'
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- North Korea is reportedly hooked on its own version of "Clash of Clans." The knockoff, called "Fortress Defense," appears in footage of a North Korean smartphone recently leaked from the China-North Korea border region.
What does the gameplay look like inside North Korea?
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- Taiwan hails late Hong Kong bookseller for 'resistance' against China
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- A Hong Kong bookseller who fled to Taiwan in 2019 after being detained by China was hailed for his "resistance and defiance" at a memorial service on Friday.
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- New bridge between North Korea and China could open soon – 12 years after completion
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- North Korea is close to completing a long-delayed new bridge to China, satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows.
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- Is the pop song about the South China sea propaganda?
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- The Chinese government made a song about coast guard personnel patrolling the South China Sea. Analysts said it's meant to normalize Chinese presence in the disputed sea which China claims in its entirety, but which is also claimed in part by the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam.
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- Why Did North Korea Build Identical Buildings Near the Border?
- Runtime
- 2:27
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows North Korea has built at least 21 drive-through buildings near its border with South Korea.
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- China's Ethnic Unity Law: What It Means for Tibetans and Uyghurs
- Runtime
- 3:46
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- China’s new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law has 65 articles — but four are drawing the most attention: identity, language, religion, and a clause that reaches beyond China’s own borders.
We break down what the law actually says, what it means for Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongolians, and why the UN has called for it to be repealed.
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- Aung San Suu Kyi's Son on Her Dog Taichito and the Wait to See Her
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- "It's the best gift I could have given her."
Kim Aris gave his mother a puppy in 2010. Taichito guarded Aung San Suu Kyi for more than a decade, then spent his last five years without her. He died last month.
Aris talks to RFA about the dog, the wait and the meal he still plans to cook for his mother.
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- Aung San Suu Kyi's son warns ASEAN against legitimizing Myanmar military government
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Kim Aris, son of Aung San Suu Kyi, spoke to RFA on July 20 about ASEAN’s recent engagement with Myanmar, and about his mother who, according to the military-backed government, was transferred from prison to house arrest in April.
"I was shocked. If that’s how they treat their sister, I don’t want to know how they treat other people," he said.
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- Did Fiji and Australia start the Pacific NATO?
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
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- Instant Rice from North Korea
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The cup-bap (컵밥) you know is from South Korea.
The one you don't know? The one from North Korea.
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- How Tibetan American Youth Are Preparing to Fight for Tibet
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- How is a new generation of Tibetan Americans preparing to take up advocacy as China tightens policies affecting Tibetan identity and culture?
RFA Tibetan's Tenzin Dickyi reports from the 2026 Tibetan Youth Leadership Program in Washington, D.C.
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- Fighting for Democracy 5 Years After the Coup in Myanmar
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Five years after the military coup, the fight for democracy hasn't stopped in Myanmar. Despite the opposition's earlier successes, the military has now advanced on numerous fronts.
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- Funeral Held for Tibetan Activist Lobga Rangzen in New York
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen's funeral took place in New York on July 6, 2026. He died last week after setting himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters.
RFA Tibetan's Tenzin Dickyi reports from New York.
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- What China is Building in the South China Sea
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- 🛰️🌊 New satellite imagery reveals land reclamation and military infrastructure in the disputed South China Sea. Sitting just 400km from Vietnam, Antelope Reef is poised to become a link in China's expanding chain of outposts across the South China Sea.RFA's Noh Jung Min explains what is going on.
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- Tibetans mourn activist Lobga Rangzen after United Nations self-immolation | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Tibetans in Dharamsala, Ladakh, and New York react to the death of activist Lobga Rangzen after he set himself on fire in front of the United Nations in New York.
The self-immolation comes one day after China’s new ethnic unity law went into effect, with critics warning that the law brings accelerated forced assimilation and cultural erasure of Tibetans and Uyghurs. It also brings fears of Beijing’s increasing transnational repression and its ability to stifle dissident voices overseas.
RFA Tibetan's Tenzin Dickyi reports.
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- Title
- Hanoi Protesters Fight Demolition of Their Homes
- Runtime
- 2:01
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Hanoi residents are holding silent vigils and carrying cautiously worded banners, some pleading for their neighborhoods to be spared. It's rare public pushback against a 100-year redevelopment plan that could displace 250,000 people along the Red River.
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- North Korea's Dark Cities Are Lighting Up: Here's Why
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- A North Korean border city with China is no longer dark at night, satellite images and eyewitness accounts show. Experts told Radio Free Asia it's a sign North Korea is turning to solar power to fix its energy crisis.
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- 100,000 Dead: Myanmar, 5 Years After the Coup
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- More than 100,000 people have died in Myanmar's civil war since the military seized power five years ago, a conflict monitor said Wednesday.
📷: AFP
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- What's Behind China's Scientific Research in South China Sea
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- 🐢 China's "discovery" of endangered hawksbill turtles at Scarborough Shoal isn't just a wildlife story. Experts say Beijing's scientific expeditions in the disputed South China Sea are a strategic move to normalize its presence and bolster territorial claims.
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- Why North Korea Isn't at the 2026 World Cup
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- ⚽️ One of Asia's stronger soccer teams, North Korea still missed the 2026 World Cup after forfeiting a qualifier against Japan in 2024. The team cited a disease outbreak in Japan as its reason for canceling the match.
What really happened?
RFA Korean's Jamin Anderson explains.
#FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup
