Police in northern Laos have seized 12 million methamphetamine pills and arrested two suspects in the fourth major drug haul in the region this year, Lao sources say. The June 4 operation in Bokeo province’s Huayxi district blocked delivery of the drugs to the Lao capital Vientiane, with police also seizing guns and cell phones
A Vietnamese journalist is in failing health after serving two years of a prison sentence for criticizing the country’s one-party communist government, RFA has learned. Prison authorities have rejected requests he be allowed to seek medical treatment outside his jail. Le Huu Minh Tuan, a member of the Vietnam Independent Journalists’ Association, was arrested on
A Vietnamese blogger held for three years in a mental hospital while awaiting trial for criticizing Vietnam’s one-party communist state has been sent back to his former detention center on the orders of the Hanoi Police Investigation Agency, RFA has learned. Le Anh Hung, a member of the online Brotherhood of Democracy advocacy group, was
Authorities in China’s Qinghai province have freed a Tibetan schoolteacher after holding her in jail since last year, when her school for Tibetan students was closed for teaching classes in their own language, RFA has learned. Rinchen Kyi, 42, was released on Aug. 24 at about 8:00 p.m. local time and taken to her family
Five Lao villagers were beaten and detained Sunday in a village north of Vientiane by soldiers who said the group and their families were living on land owned by the country’s military, according to Lao sources. Around 40 families had lived in Sisawat and Houay Nam Yen villages in Naxaithong district since 1989, when they
The owner of a now-shuttered filling station in Luang Namtha town stated his own pumps have actually now run out of gas, with the business that supplies him stating they have none left to sell. “Were not hoarding gas.” The exchange rate in between the Lao kip and the Thai baht is much too high,”
Homes, other residential or commercial property seized Junta authorities have on the other hand stepped up their confiscation of property owned by opposition figures, with almost 100 houses coming from National League for Democracy (NLD) members took within the last 13 months, 60 of them taken since the beginning of 2022, NLD sources say. Authorities
A leading Chinese official in Tibet checked out abbeys in and near the Tibetan capital Lhasa this week to caution monks against behavior thought about disloyal to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, state media sources said. Wang Junzheng, celebration secretary in the Tibet Autonomous Region, went on Thursday to the Ramoche temple in Lhasa and
A Cambodian female released on Wednesday after serving 4 years in jail for posting a video of herself throwing a shoe at a poster of Prime Minister Hun Sen stated she had gotten a loan to pay the great enforced to secure her release. Sam Sokha, an advocate of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP),
A Lao human rights activist living in Thailand as a UN-recognized refugee is being held for deportation back to Laos, where he deals with arrest for his advocacy work, Lao sources say. Khoukham Keomanivong was jailed Saturday on a charge of overstaying his permission to be in the country and was attempted Monday afternoon at
