UN: Myanmar Military Intended to Perpetrate Genocide Against Rohingya Muslims A U.N. fact-finding mission has concluded that the Myanmar military intended to perpetrate genocide on ethnic Rohingya Muslims when it… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
US Tells Canada It’s Urging China to Free Detained Canadians Updated at 4:23 p.m. Aug. 22.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured Canada on Thursday that the United States was working… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
Crucial Round of US-Taliban Peace Talks Under Way Updated: Aug. 22, 2019, 4:37 p.m.ISLAMABAD — The United States and the Afghan Taliban have resumed peace talks in Qatar… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
Two Years After Brutal Crackdown, Myanmar’s Rohingyas See Bleak Future Ahead Some 700,000 ethnic Rohingyas have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh following a brutal military crackdown that began in August 2017 in… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
Hong Kong’s Quietly Confrontational Protest Protests continue in Hong Kong as activists employ a wide range of strategies to spread their pro-democracy message. Mike O’Sullivan… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
No Rohingya Turn Up for Repatriation to Myanmar A fresh push to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar fall flat on Thursday, with no one turning up to hop… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
Australia Sees Rush of Hong Kong Millionaires Australia is seeing an increase in interest in its millionaires-only visa program from wealthy Hong Kong residents who are eyeing… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
No Rohingya Come for Repatriation to Myanmar A fresh push to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar appeared Thursday to fall flat, with no one turning up to… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
Experts: Trump’s Approach Could Push Pyongyang Toward Beijing As a top North Korean military official concluded a visit to China this week in an effort to boost military… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
Death Toll in Afghan Wedding Attack Rises to 80 VOA correspondent Ayaz Gul contributed to this report from Islamabad. The death toll from a suicide bomb attack at a wedding… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
US Charges Kansas Researcher Over Ties to Chinese University WASHINGTON - A researcher at the University of Kansas was indicted on federal fraud charges Wednesday for allegedly concealing ties to a Chinese… 08/22/2019 Aimeast
Doubts Hang Over Fresh Rohingya Repatriation Attempt to Myanmar TEKNAF, BANGLADESH - Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh said Wednesday that they did not want to return to their… 08/21/2019 Aimeast
Concerns Growing that China’s Influence Operations Getting Bolder Nike Ching contributed to this report, which includes information from Reuters.Revelations that China has been using social media accounts to… 08/21/2019 Aimeast
2 US Service Members Killed in Afghanistan Two U.S. service members were "killed in action" Wednesday in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said, as talks between the U.S.… 08/21/2019 Aimeast
US Takes Aim at Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Networks The US Treasury took action Wednesday to crack down on Chinese traffickers of deadly fentanyl, sanctioning producer-exporters and warning banks… 08/21/2019 Aimeast
Kashmir Tourism Suffers After India Revokes Region’s Autonomy India has slightly eased its communications blockade in Kashmir but conditions in the contested region are still not normal some… 08/21/2019 Aimeast
Beijing to Washington: ‘Meet China Halfway’ to End Tariff War Beijing appealed to Washington on Wednesday to "meet China halfway" on a new trade deal to end the tit-for-tat tariff… 08/21/2019 Aimeast
In Locked-Down Kashmir, News Gathering a Herculean Challenge In the two weeks since India stripped Kashmir of its semi-autonomous status and brought the Himalayan region under its direct… 08/21/2019 Aimeast
China Confirms Detention of Staffer from Britain’s Hong Kong Consulate China confirmed on Wednesday that a local employee at Britain's Hong Kong consulate has been held under a 15-day administrative… 08/21/2019 Aimeast
Tourism Suffers in Kashmir After Region’s Autonomy Revoked by India India has slightly eased its communications blockade in Kashmir but conditions in the contested region are still not normal some… 08/21/2019 Aimeast