Tag: Asia

In this image made from video by Radio Free Asia, former British Ambassador Vicky Bowman talks to media in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sept. 5, 2014. A court in Myanmar has sentenced the former British ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation to a year in prison for failing to register her residence, a diplomat who has been following her case said Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.

Former British ambassador to Myanmar and husband jailed

Ryan King · September 2, 2022 2:39 pm

Myanmar military tanks are driven during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 77th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, March 27, 2022.

Myanmar junta open to negotiations with imprisoned democratic leader

Brady Knox · August 19, 2022 10:02 pm

Pelosi to visit DMZ border in South Korea during Asia trip

Cami Mondeaux · August 4, 2022 12:15 pm

People walk past a billboard welcoming U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday.

WATCH LIVE: Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan

Misty Severi · August 2, 2022 2:00 pm

Taiwan cancels leave of some soldiers ‘to immediately prepare for war’

Cami Mondeaux · August 1, 2022 1:49 pm

Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan during tour of Asia: Report

Cami Mondeaux · August 1, 2022 11:16 am

Scientific organization adopts new name of ‘Asian giant hornet’ to avoid discrimination

Scientific organization adopts new name of ‘Asian giant hornet’ to avoid discrimination

Abigail Adcox · July 28, 2022 12:00 am

Myanmar junta hangs four political activists

Victor I. Nava · July 25, 2022 7:33 am

Energy and Environment

Evacuations ordered as volcano in western Japan erupts

Brady Knox · July 24, 2022 1:05 pm

Sri Lanka swears in new acting president amid internal upheaval

Ryan King · July 15, 2022 8:10 pm

Sri Lankan prime minister declares state of emergency after president flees country

Cami Mondeaux · July 13, 2022 1:11 pm

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at a news conference during the annual meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 14, 2012. Suu Kyi said that investment in her country should strengthen its nascent process of democratization. The Nobel peace laureate spoke Thursday to the annual meeting of the ILO in Geneva on the first stop of her trip to Europe. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

Deposed Myanmar leader moved to solitary confinement

Jack Birle · June 23, 2022 3:00 pm