Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has stated that he will continue to lead the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), and thus remain in power, even after he one day retires from the government. Having ruled the Southeast Asian country since 1985, Hun Sen has teased the idea of stepping down several times in recent years
Rural residents in North Korea are complaining that their government is unfairly giving the best quality apples and peaches to citizens of the capital Pyongyang ahead of Saturday’s Chuseok holiday, sources in the provinces told RFA. Chuseok is the Korean version of the autumn harvest festival celebrated throughout northeast Asia. The holiday draws comparisons to
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee reversed a decision ordering a popular Vietnamese poet and artist to destroy 29 of his works because he hosted an exhibition in July without a permit, he told RFA. Bui Quang Vien, better known by his pen name Bui Chat, held the exhibition from July 15-30 at the
Though staunch communists in Vietnam reflected on Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing on Tuesday by calling him a traitor for causing the USSR’s 1991 collapse, others in the country credited reforms he implemented as the Soviet Union’s last leader with starting Vietnam on its own path to modernization. Gorbachev, who passed away on Tuesday at age 91,
North Korea is seeing an uptick in loach farming as residents hope to survive poor economic conditions and food shortages by raising the small mudfish to consume or to sell in the marketplace, sources in the country told RFA. The species of loach native to China, Taiwan and the Korean peninsula lives in the muddy
Police in Phnom Penh on Tuesday arrested a Cambodian American lawyer and activist dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a courthouse, where minutes before a mass trial ended by convicting her and more than 50 other opposition figures of treason. Theary Seng and the others were all in some way connected to the Cambodian
A file picture taken Aug. 19, 2018, showing damage in Sanamxay district of Attapeu province in southern Laos, about a month after the breach of the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy dam that left 71 dead and thousands displaced. Credit: RFA. An Attapeu province authorities confirmed that the PNPC launched water Friday. ” They, the business, are
North Korea has actually punished more than 10 military authorities after they were caught in belongings of “impure” video files– South Korean TV shows, Japanese pornography and Hollywood films– as a crackdown on prohibited foreign media moved to focus on high-ranking men in uniform, military sources told RFA. Residents of North Korea are prohibited to
Organization throughout the coronavirus pandemic has been rough. With factories shut down and trade with North Korea suspended from January 2020 to last month, many of the workers cant even cover their own living expenditures in China. The Olympics might reveal to them how much better off the rest of the world is. North Korean
Runaway inflation and severe lacks of food and other necessities are positioning the worst suffering in North Korea in a generation, but rather than focus on the financial crisis, Pyongyang has increase missile tests to challenge Seoul and Washington, sources in the nation and experts say. The federal government in 2015 informed the country of
