A Bangkok court on Thursday acquitted a Thai woman accused of supporting two Chinese ethnic Uyghur men suspected of carrying out a 2015 bombing that killed 20 people at a Hindu shrine popular with tourists from China.
At the Hindu temple in Thulasendrapuram, the ancestral village of Kamala Harris, in Tamil Nadu, India, locals offer prayers and conduct a special ritual for Harris whom they refer to as the daughter of the land, Nov. 5, 2024. (Pema Ngodup/RFA)
Authorities in Xinjiang have banned Uyghurs from using social media apps, including Chinese-owned TikTok and tools to circumvent censorship, with violators facing fines or arrest.
With its leaders in jail or fleeing from justice, the party that led Bangladesh to independence and ruled for 15 consecutive years faces an existential crisis after a student uprising toppled the autocratic prime minister in August, analysts say.
A Tibetan from Sichuan province has made a rare public appeal on Chinese social media, calling on authorities to take action against a company that he accuses of illegally extracting sand and gravel from a local riverbed, Tibetan sources with knowledge of the situation said.
Myanmar’s civil war is driving up housing demand in Yangon, causing rents to skyrocket as people displaced by conflict in remote border regions seek out the relative safety of the country’s largest city, according to real estate agents and residents.
Jetsun Narbu, 19, aims to join the national team while highlighting her Tibetan heritage. By Dechen Wangmo for RFA Tibetan A 19-year-old has made history as the first Tibetan female cricketer to break into India’s highly competitive state-level cricket scene. Jetsun Narbu competes for the all-women’s Mumbai Cricket Association — the city’s top state-level team …
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A new Bangladesh inquiry commission said Thursday it had found an infamous “secret” detention center at the military intelligence headquarters that people released from its 22 cells had chillingly talked about.
The purpose of journalism-specific AI training organized by U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to provide journalists an in-depth understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as how these technologies are utilized in media.
The queue for cooking oil stretches down a Yangon street. Householders turn up before dawn to fill a plastic bottle at a subsidized rate in Myanmar’s commercial capital – the latest evidence of a tanking economy.