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North Korea swaps soybean-based doenjang paste with wheat-based imitation

Residents say it tastes awful and they long for the salty fermented soybean paste, a staple of Korean cuisine.

China celebrates 75th birthday but Uyghurs and Tibetans chafe under Beijing's rule

Tibetans are subjected to more ‘patriotic education’ as a Uyghur camp survivor calls it ‘Day of Mourning.’

French museum blasted for using 'Xizang' in Tibet exhibits

Activists say the renaming is part of China’s effort to distort Tibetan history and undermine cultural identity.

Malaysia deports Cambodian worker for calling Hun Sen ‘despicable’

Nuon Toeun was arrested just a few days after putting the post on Facebook

Award-winning Cambodian journalist jailed for ‘incitement’

Global and local watchdogs condemned his arrest. Cambodia’s deputy prime minister said he wasn’t aware of the case.

Some 200,000 Myanmar workers detained in Thai immigration crackdown

Authorities inspected documents at workplaces, deporting some workers and fining others in the 3-month initiative.

More than 170 villages of Inlay region have been flooded for about three weeks

UN honors translators for aiding dialogue, information flows across language barriers

The 7th International Translation Day highlights technology and indigenous languages.

Students, teachers die in bus inferno near Bangkok

After the blaze, investigation raises concerns about compressed natural gas used for public transportation.

Mao Zedong's mass political campaigns still drive Chinese politics

75 years later, his legacy is a party that brainwashes people to accept the next political target, experts say.

INTERVIEW: Umbrella Movement was form of anti-colonial resistance: former leader

'It was about not just accepting' a fate decided by colonizers, says Alex Chow.

Rebels seize junta base near Chinese rare-earth mine in northern Myanmar

Kachin fighters now have near-total control of Chipwi township, a mining hub near the border with China.

Myanmar junta launches census after blasts in Yangon

A guerilla group bombed two Yangon administrative offices the day before the survey started.

South Korea unveils missile that can hit the North’s bunkers

Dubbed the ‘monster missile,’ the Hyunmoo-5 is reported to have capacity comparable to that of a nuclear weapon.

Vietnam says China attacked fishing boat near disputed islands

It says assailants beat the crew with iron bars and confiscated their catch.