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Cambodians celebrate traditional fishing methods at annual ceremony | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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- Cambodians celebrate traditional fishing methods at annual ceremony | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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- 3 years ago
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- Sporting straw hats and cotton checkered scarves to shield themselves from the blazing sun, hundreds of children and adults cheered Saturday as they netted freshwater catfish and snakefish in Boeung Kroam lake, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh.
The annual ceremony, back after a two-year pandemic hiatus, is held after the rice harvest and participants are allowed to use only traditional tools such as woven baskets and nets, Tbong Khmum province governor Cheam Chan Sophorn explained.
"It is a message to our villagers and especially fishermen not to use illegal equipment ... so that fish will be around for hundreds of years to come for our younger generations," he told AFP in the middle of the muddy lake. Cambodia – which boasts the Mekong River and its many tributaries – is reliant on fish as a source of protein for its population.
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- Cambodia’s smoked fish business in jeopardy due to declining fish stocks
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- 3 years ago
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- Residents along Cambodia’s Tonle Lake are urging authorities to crack down on illegal fishing. Otherwise, they say, some fish species will be lost forever.
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- Thousands of retirees protest in Wuhan and Dalian over medical payout cuts | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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- 3 years ago
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- Thousands of people took to the streets of two Chinese cities – Wuhan and Dalian – on Wednesday in an ongoing protest over major cuts to their medical benefits, according to local residents and video footage posted to social media.
Video clips uploaded to social media showed crowds singing the communist anthem "The Internationale" under a traffic overpass in Zhongshan Park and along Jiefang Avenue in the central city of Wuhan. Similar scenes unfolded in the People’s Square in the northeastern port city of Dalian, according to the Twitter account @whyyoutouzhele.
Other clips showed a crowd of older people facing off with ranks of uniformed police officers three or four deep who linked arms and started shoving the crowd slowly to make it pull back. In one clip, an elderly man is seen lying on the ground with his head and legs propped up while people boo and shout at the police.
The protests were a continuation of an earlier rally outside munic...
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- Chinese retirees take to streets to protest health insurance cuts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The protest follows widespread demonstrations last year over China’s harsh COVID restrictions.
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- “We’re too afraid to return home,” Rakhine refugee
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Refugees in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state remain in camps despite a ceasefire between junta forces and ethnic militias.
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- Myanmar's increasing opium production | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Opium production in Myanmar has nearly doubled since the military coup two years ago, a U.N. report found in January, reversing years of decline, as farmers devote more land to growing poppies amid economic turmoil and disruptions.
Estimated potential opium production surged 88% to 790 metric tons in 2022 after having fallen to 400 metric tons in 2020 from 870 metric tons in 2013, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime found.
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- Journalists shed tears as Cambodian leader shutters independent media outlet
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The Voice of Democracy has reported widely on abuses of power and corruption in Cambodia.
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- Family struggles to survive in Yangon
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- 3 years ago
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- Phoe Thein lost his farmlands and went into debt after his crops failed due to bad weather. Now he and his family struggle to survive in Yangon by collecting used bottles, cans and other refuse to resell. But the job isn’t enough to support his family and he can’t afford to send his children to school.
Despite the hardship, Phoe Thein takes pride that he and his family do not “steal or hide anything from others.”
“We just pick up trash.”
Life has gone from bad to horrific for many in Myanmar since the military’s February 2021 coup. Read our special report here: https://en.rfa.org/UndertheGun
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- Myanmar resistance fighters use homemade rifles against junta
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Resistance fighters from Sagaing Region are creating their own handmade rifles to fight against junta forces. Despite the deadly ingenuity that has gone into the creation of these weapons, using them in modern combat poses serious risks to the operators.
“This gun can shoot a maximum of three bullets. We can’t rely on these handmade rifles alone in battle. These guns need to be reloaded after each shot.”
“Sometimes, the gun explodes on the shooter when it backfires. I’ve seen cases where the gun backfired on the shooter’s face. It’s very dangerous.”
Life has gone from bad to horrific for many in Myanmar since the military’s February 2021 coup. Read our special report here: https://en.rfa.org/UndertheGun
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- Myanmar opium production doubles since 2021 coup
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Opium production in Myanmar has doubled since the military seized control of the country in 2021. UN statistics show 790 tons of opium was produced in 2022. The highest production is in the Northern Shan State, near China, Thailand and Laos, creating a serious challenge for neighboring countries.
“The situation in our country is very bad. Our lives are very difficult. The government can’t control the prices of basic commodities. What else can we do to earn money except grow poppies?”
Life has gone from bad to horrific for many in Myanmar since the military’s February 2021 coup. Read our special report here: https://en.rfa.org/UndertheGun
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- “They would kill or torture me if they caught me,” resident of Myanmar’s Magway Region
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- About 10,000 people fled last month as junta forces raided 12 villages in Pauk Township in central Myanmar’s Magway region. RFA spoke with local residents.
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- Rakhine fishermen worry amid plans for massive Chinese deep-sea port project
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Myanmar authorities say the project will bring opportunities to local residents. But fishermen are skeptical.
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- Uyghurs Observe 26th Anniversary of Ghulja Massacre | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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- 3 years ago
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- Uyghurs and their supporters gathered in front of the United Nations in New York on Sunday to observe the 26th anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre and protest China’s treatment of the ethnic minority.
The massacre occurred in 1997 when Chinese state security forces in the Xinjiang city of Ghulja killed hundreds of Uyghurs who were marching and calling for an end to religious repression and ethnic discrimination.
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- Dr. Li Wenliang Memorial | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Tuesday marks the third anniversary of the death of Dr. Li Wenliang – one of the first doctors to call attention to the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019. He was quickly silenced by authorities, who reprimanded him for sharing information about the virus, and he later died of the infection.
Admirers of Dr. Li held a memorial in New York City over the weekend, commemorating his work and honoring his legacy and impact on the fight against COVID-19 in China and around the world.
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- Selling hair in Myanmar to make ends meet
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- It’s a step that a growing number of people in Myanmar are taking, as economic hardship seizes the nation following the military coup two years ago.
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- Ding Jiaxi Wins Human Rights Award | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The U.S. State Department honored Ding Jiaxi - a Chinese human rights lawyer who was secretly detained by police for advocating for increased democratic rights and participation in China - with a human rights recogonition award earlier this week.
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- Residents along Phnom Penh’s last natural lake fear expulsion
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Construction crews are leveling large tracts of land around Ta Mok Lake to make way for office towers and high-rise apartments.
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- “(Junta forces) can burn our homes, but they can’t burn our will,” resident of Myanmar's Sagaing.
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Junta forces torched more than 5,000 homes in Tabayin Township in northern Myanmar’s Sagaing Region. Local residents tell RFA what happened.
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- Silent strikes commemorate second anniversary of Myanmar coup | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Citizens across Myanmar silently protested the second anniversary of the military coup that ousted the democratically elected government – expressing their dissatisfaction by emptying the streets and closing their stores in several major cities.
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- Sagaing militias use hand-made guns in fight against junta rule
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The hand-made guns sometimes backfire, creating a danger for militia fighters.
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- 450 orphans in Myanmar struggling to meet basic needs| Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- More than 450 orphans in Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon are struggling to find food on a daily basis due to a lack of donors.
The orphanage, founded by the Yellow Generation Wave charity group, lies at the foot of the Bago Yoma Mountain on the expressway between Mandalay and Yangon. The orphanage also serves as a school, and it was founded in 2015 and has grown in population steadily since. But because of its distance from the city, the orphanage is struggling to get donors to support its operations.
“This is a place created for them. A boy here is a boy. We have tried our best to create a place for boys and girls to have a safe home and a learning center for their lives,” Ashin Zanar Nanda, the monk in charge of the orphanage, told RFA. “I let the girls and the boys learn the arts and crafts that they should know for their lives.”
Htal War came to the school in 2015, having lived on the streets after his mother died when he was 11 y...
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- “I can’t cook every day because we can’t afford it.”
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A family collects cans, bottles – anything they think they can sell – as they struggle to survive on the fringes of Myanmar society.
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- Massive fire destroys ancient Buddhist monastery on Tibet-Nepal border
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A source told RFA that the monastery’s central prayer hall and most of the prayer books and statues were destroyed.
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- “I had to run through bullets to get footage,” Myanmar photographer Myo Htet Hla Thaw
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Myo Htet Hla Thaw says he wants to tell the truth about post-coup Myanmar to the Burmese people and the world.
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- Exiled Cambodia opposition activist dons military garb to mock Hun Sen’s son | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- An exiled Cambodian opposition activist is in hot water for allegedly impersonating a Cambodian military officer after he dressed up like a three-star general and mocked the son of Prime Minister Hun Sen in a social media video that has gone viral.
In the video, Long Sokunthearak, who lives in Ohio, said that Hun Sen’s son Hun Manet was only able to rise to a position of power because of his father’s influence, and that the elder Hun, who has ruled Cambodia since 1985, has been targeting opposition party politicians to make it easier for the younger Hun to one day take his place.
“I wanted to tell the public that my fake uniform has no value, just like the uniform given to Hun Manet by Hun Sen,” Long Sokunthearak told RFA’s Khmer Service. Hun Manet is Cambodia’s Deputy Commander in Chief of the army, with a rank of infantry commander.
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- “The people want to fight back,” former Chinese state TV reporter Kcriss Li
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Li traveled to Wuhan as a citizen journalist in 2020 to report on the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. He faced harassment and obstruction by authorities.
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- Ukrainian Deminers Train in Cambodia | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Fifteen Ukrainian deminers wrapped up a week of training in Cambodia on Friday, after getting instructions from officials and NGOs in a country still struggling with the impact of minefields decades after the end of conflict in 1998.
Ukrainian deminer Stanislav Kulykiusky told the Associated Press that his team was appreciated the training, adding that 64 deminers had already been injured and 13 killed during operations back in Ukraine.
Cambodian deminers are considered some of the most experienced around the world, having been to sent to conflict zones in previous years to assist and train local authorities.
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- Pon Ye Gyi | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Myanmar's Bagan is famous for both its world heritage historical sites – home to several temples, pagodas, stupas and other pieces of ancient art works – and for Pon Ye Gyi, a fermented bean powder uniquely produced in the historic Bagan region and used for curry paste.
Pon Ye Gyi has been produced in the town of Bagan Nyaung Oo and nearby villages for a long time. Those who do not have a stove to make Pon Ye Gyi buy it from other people in the village who do.
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- Vietnam's Year of the Cat | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- As China, Japan and other East Asian countries prepare to celebrate the start of the Lunar Year of the Rabbit, the Vietnamese people will be welcoming the Year of the Cat instead.
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- Fermented bean paste makers face rising prices since Myanmar’s military coup
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The traditional Burmese staple, known as Pon Ye Gyi, has been produced in Myanmar’s historic Bagan region for generations.
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- Flooding destroys homes in Cambodia’s Kandal Province
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Cambodia’s Interior Ministry says hundreds of families were affected by the flooding.
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- Tibetan monk gives aid to poor families in India
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Ngawang Tenzin says he started his work in northeastern India’s Bihar State in 2020 during the COVID outbreak.
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- Deaths, injuries reported in tanker explosion at Thai shipyard | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A huge explosion aboard an oil tanker killed at least two people, including a Burmese national, at a Thai shipyard and injured at least 10, while others were reported missing, the provincial governor and Marine Department of Thailand said Tuesday.
A video clip showed a fireball rising from the Smooth Sea 22 at around 9:20 a.m., said officials in Samut Songkram, a coastal province on the Gulf of Thailand southwest of Bangkok. The ship was carrying more than 30,000 liters of bunker oil commonly used in marine and land-based steam power plants along with 2,500 liters of diesel fuel, said officials who had not yet identified a cause for the blast.
The tanker was docked at the Ruammitr Dockyard Co. Ltd., a shipyard on the Mae Klong River in Laem Yai subdistrict where welders were working on it as part of a maintenance procedure. Officials said the fire was extinguished by 3 p.m. “We found two bodies which are being forensically examined … We have to determine i...
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- China-Myanmar border town eyes revival after Covid | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The Chinese city of Ruili on the southern border is slowly creeping back to life as the country ditches its zero-tolerance COVID strategy after years of strict lockdowns and other grueling restrictions. Bordering Myanmar, the city was a key battleground in the fight to keep imported COVD cases out of China, with residents living through nearly a dozen lockdowns.
Despite the harsh lockdowns, the residents are now optimistic that the city's economy will recover, banking on the city's famed jade and jewelry trade and closeness to Myanmar. Meanwhile in the Myanmar town of Muse, residents share their concerns over soaring COVD cases in China.
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- “My sons cried and begged,” mother of three men killed by junta troops in Myanmar
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Junta soldiers killed nine people, including women and children, during a six-day raid in Ah Lel Sho village in northern Myanmar’s Sagaing Region.
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- Title
- Fish in high demand as Cambodians scramble to make fish paste
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Cambodian staple, known as prahok, is in full production this time of year.
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- Title
- Security personnel confront casino workers outside Phnom Penh prison
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The workers were calling for the release of union leader Chhim Sithar, who was jailed for leading a strike at the NagaWorld casino.
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- Angry workers clash with police in Chongqing after test-kit maker fires thousands | RFA
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Angry workers at a now-defunct COVID-19 test kit factory in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing clashed with police over the weekend, upset about unpaid wages after the company announced mass layoffs. Social media footage of the Saturday night protests showed people throwing traffic cones, boxes and stools at police with riot shields, while other clips uploaded to social media platforms showed a crowd of people shouting "Give us back our money!"
Workers smashed machinery and equipment in the factory and fought off fully equipped riot police with rocks and random debris, the videos showed. Reuters reported on Sunday that it had verified some of the video clips as being filmed at a factory owned by test-kit makers Zybio in Chongqing.
Local sources told Radio Free Asia that the protest erupted after Zybio announced it was laying off thousands of temporary workers urgently recruited last year to cover huge demand for test kits under the zero-COVID policy th...
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- Hard times for Yangon’s traditional pottery business
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Pottery business owners say cheaper and more readily available plastic containers are replacing pots, bowls and other vessels made of clay.
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- Rare video from Tibet offers insight into the toll COVID is taking in China | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Title
- Tibetan singer in exile finds vanishing roots
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Lhundup Tsering told RFA that his songs focus on his Tibetan homeland.
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- New anti-junta militia trains on the Thai-Myanmar border
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Militia members say their goal is to oust the military regime that seized power in Myanmar nearly two years ago.
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- Myanmar's junta holds parade to celebrate Independence day | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Myanmar's junta held a parade on Wednesday (January 4) to celebrate the country's 75th Independence Day in the capital Naypyitaw amid conflict with opposition groups across the country.
Speaking at the parade, Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing accused some countries of trying to intervene in his country's affairs, while thanking others, including India and China, for their cooperation.
Credit: @Reuters
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- Myanmar junta releases more than 7,000 prisoners
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The amnesty comes as Myanmar marks the 75th anniversary of its independence from Britain.
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- Title
- Seeking Love
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The Story of Chinese Adoptees in the U.S.
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- “We can’t find enough scraps to sell,” Phnom Penh scavenger
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Hundreds of scavengers eke out a living collecting bottles, cans – whatever they can sell – at dumps and landfills on the outskirts of Cambodia’s capital.
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- Returnees forced to quarantine scuffle with police at southern China airport | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Video shared on social media showed recent returnees scuffling with police in southern China’s Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport over the enforcement of mandatory quarantine rules for inbound travellers from abroad.
Several posts shared on social media platforms said that the dispute erupted over the enforcement of on-arrival quarantine procedures for returnees, which require five days in a designated quarantine facility, then three days at the returnee’s residence. One of the posts mentioned that the returnees were students and tourists who wanted to avoid quarantine requirements ahead of January 8, when such restrictions for inbound travellers arriving from abroad will also be lifted.
Credit: @Reuters
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- At least 19 dead, 30 injured in Cambodia casino fire | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- A massive fire in a Cambodia casino complex has killed at least 19 people and injured more than 30. The blaze at the Grand Diamond City Casino in Poipet, on the border with Thailand, broke out shortly before midnight on Wednesday. Reuters reported that about 400 staff and patrons were in the building when the fire broke out.
Photographs showed people shining lights from windows and clambering onto ledges to escape the flames as firefighters tried to control the blaze. Media in Thailand reported that many of the injured were Thai staff and customers of the casino.
Thai authorities said one Thai national was confirmed dead but did not disclose the name ahead of an autopsy. Thailand sent fire crews and helicopters to fight the blaze and evacuate the injured to hospitals across the border. Thailand’s Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul said Thursday that 34 people were admitted to hospitals in Sa Kaeo province.
“The conditions ranged fro...
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- Eyewitness footage shows major car crash on central China bridge | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Dozens of vehicles crashed in a major pileup on a bridge in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou in Henan province on Wednesday, eyewitness footage shared on social media showed. One person was killed in the incident, state broadcaster CCTV said. Rescuers said more than 200 vehicles had slammed into each other, state media reported, attributing the cause of the crash to extremely foggy conditions.
In footage shared on Weibo, several cars and trucks could be seen crumpled and piled on top of each other on the Zhengxin Huanghe bridge as people meandered about. One emergency vehicle could be seen in the background.
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- Dubai: The grit behind the glamor | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Escaping the chaos of home, Myanmar migrant workers face exploitation abroad. Female workers toil 16-hour days with little to eat and for less money than they were promised.
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