‘Why Not Just Try:’ Hong Kong Protesters Share What Drives Them When he left the house last week, Joseph, a 19-year-old Hong Kong college student, told his parents he was going… 11/23/2019 Aimeast
Trump Non-Committal About Signing Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Bills President Donald Trump was non-committal Friday about signing bi-partisan legislation supporting pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. In a telephone call… 11/23/2019 Aimeast
Trump Suggests Peace Talks With Afghan Taliban Back on Track U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated peace negotiations with the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan are back on track and vowed… 11/23/2019 Aimeast
Self-Confessed Chinese Spy Spills Secrets in Australia A self-confessed Chinese spy has given Australia’s counterespionage agency inside intelligence on how Beijing conducts its interference operations abroad and… 11/23/2019 Aimeast
China Hits Back at US for Criticizing Corridor Project With Pakistan China and Pakistan urged the United States on Friday "to sift fact from fiction" before questioning their bilateral infrastructure development… 11/23/2019 Aimeast
Cambodia Backs China on Hong Kong Protests Cambodia this week reiterated its support for China’s attempts to quell violent protests in Hong Kong, citing its adherence to… 11/23/2019 Aimeast
Campus Siege Winds Down as Hong Kong Gears up for Election A Hong Kong university campus under siege for more than a week was a deserted wasteland Saturday, with a handful… 11/23/2019 Aimeast
Vietnam Arrests Prominent Blogger Pham Chi Dung Vietnamese authorities arrested blogger and independent journalist Pham Chi Dung, a prominent government critic and VOA contributor, in Ho Chi… 11/22/2019 Aimeast
Ex-CIA Officer to be Sentenced in China Spy Conspiracy A former CIA officer who pleaded guilty to an espionage conspiracy with China could be facing more than two decades… 11/22/2019 Aimeast
Rights Group Draws Attention to Heavy Smog in Pakistan Tens of thousands of people in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore are at risk of respiratory disease because of poor… 11/22/2019 Aimeast
In Thailand, Pope Tells Bishops, Priests to Spread the Faith Pope Francis Friday called on bishops in Thailand to keep their doors open for priests and to spread the faith… 11/22/2019 Aimeast
Hong Kong Court Reinstates Mask Ban Ahead of Elections A Hong Kong court on Friday suspended its decision to strike down a government ban on wearing face masks at… 11/22/2019 Aimeast
Pope Urges Thais: Don’t See Christianity as ‘Foreign’ Pope Francis paid tribute Friday to Catholics in Thailand who suffered or were killed for their faith in the past… 11/22/2019 Aimeast
Handful of Hong Kong Protesters Surrender At least eight protesters who had been holding out at a trashed Hong Kong university surrendered to police in the… 11/22/2019 Aimeast
Militant Group Vows Retaliation Following Indian Court Ruling Following a ruling by India’s Supreme Court over a land dispute between the country’s majority Hindus and minority Muslims, a… 11/22/2019 Aimeast
Pentagon Rejects Report US Pulling Forces From South Korea The Pentagon is rejecting a report that the United States is preparing to pull military forces from South Korea.Chief Pentagon… 11/21/2019 Aimeast
A Photography Exhibition Captures the Lives of Kurdish Fighters In 2015, Canadian photographer Joey Lawrence travelled to the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Syria while fierce fighting was underway… 11/21/2019 Aimeast
US Congress Approves Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Bills The U.S. Congress approved two bills Thursday to support pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong after months of unrest in the… 11/21/2019 Aimeast
Pentagon Rejects Report that US Pulling Forces from Korea The Pentagon is rejecting a report that the United States is preparing to pull military forces from South Korea.Chief Pentagon… 11/21/2019 Aimeast
Korean Startups Expand to Vietnam, a Kindred Spirit South Korean startups are banking on their country’s similarities with Vietnam — a shared popular obsession with education, similar rituals,… 11/21/2019 Aimeast