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‘We are RFA’: The journalists behind the stories

Radio Free Asia on their commitment in bringing critical information to audiences where facts are suppressed.

I See Dead People . . . or Maybe I Don’t

A Soto Zen priest on hungry ghosts, visitations, and the overlapping nature of the Bardo Thodol and the Shobogenzo The post I See Dead People . . . or Maybe I Don’t appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

US-funded Radio Free Asia suspends operations after Trump cuts and shutdown

Radio Free Asia, founded nearly three decades ago to report on China and other Asian countries without independent media, said Wednesday it will halt production after the US government ceased funding. The broadcaster had already laid off or furloughed...

Opinion: Stop Dealing with Thieves. America Must Recognize the Uyghurs’ Stake in Rare Earths

China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs precisely to secure permanent control over strategic resources such as rare earths. A Uyghur journalist’s appeal to the U.S. The post Opinion: Stop Dealing with Thieves. America Must Recognize the Uyghurs’ Stake...

How China really spies on the UK

The national security threats China poses today go beyond traditional notions of espionage - in this new world, threats are far more complex

After 29 Years, RFA Is On Pause – OpEd

By Rosa Hwang The newsroom is dark. The microphones are off. Broadcasts have been silenced. Publishing is paused. On social media. On our websites. Due to uncertain funding, Radio Free Asia is not delivering news to our audiences for the...

Rare Red Sprites, Milky Way, and Southern Liguts All Captured in One Spectacular Photo

Rare Red Sprites, Milky Way, and Southern Liguts All Captured in One Spectacular Photo We’ve seen some fantastic photos of red sprites, but photographer Dan Zafra has given us something we’ve never seen before—red sprites, the Milky Way, the...

After 29 years, RFA is on pause

From the executive editor: funding uncertainty is driving RFA’s remaining teams to stop delivering the news for now

RFA suspends remaining editorial operations amid funding uncertainty

With the delay in receiving funding, RFA suspends remaining editorial operations amid funding uncertainty.

Liberation Through Non-Clinging Across Buddhist Traditions

How approaches from different Buddhist traditions can complement and support each other on the path to awakening The post Liberation Through Non-Clinging Across Buddhist Traditions appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Kiran Desai’s first novel in nearly 20 years is shortlisted for the Booker. Last time, she won it

Is Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny the great American–Indian novel?

‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice

Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medicThis...

First India-China direct flight in five years lands in Guangzhou

Direct flights were suspended in 2020 due to pandemic-induced restrictions and border clash in Ladakh that strained ties between the two countries for nearly five years.      

Prime Minister Takaichi and the Fight Against the East Turkestan Genocide: A Uyghur View

Aware of the Chinese threat, the new Japanese government may revamp an old history of friendship with the Uyghurs. The post Prime Minister Takaichi and the Fight Against the East Turkestan Genocide: A Uyghur View first appeared on Bitter...

EDITORIAL: ‘Retrocession’ is humbug

Taiwan Retrocession Day is observed on Oct. 25 every year. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government removed it from the list of annual holidays immediately following the first successful tran...

Michelle Bachelet at the Court of Communist China

A new photo opportunity with the CCP for the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who failed to confront the regime on the Uyghurs’ cultural genocide. The post Michelle Bachelet at the Court of Communist China first appeared...

Donovan’s Deep Dives: The KMT’s retro revival

The election of Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) as chair of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) marked a triumphant return of pride in the “Chinese” in the party name. Cheng wants Taiwanese to be proud to call themselves Chinese again.

Why Tibetan New Year offers feast for dogs and divinatory significance of food choices

In China’s autonomous region of Tibet, during one of the region’s New Year celebrations, a tradition places the fate of households in the paws of their most loyal resident, the family dog. The unusual ritual known as “Inviting the...

Xi Jinping is preparing to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump

Holding court for the cameras in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, last week, a manically self-congratulatory US President Donald Trump, Gaza’s make-believe savior, hailed his fellow “tough guys” — tame tyrants...

Humkar Dorje Rinpoche: UN Demands Truth Behind Suspicious Death of Tibetan Lama in Vietnam

Few Tibetans believe the respected abbott died “of natural causes.” The United Nations does not believe it either. The post Humkar Dorje Rinpoche: UN Demands Truth Behind Suspicious Death of Tibetan Lama in Vietnam first appeared on Bitter Winter.

Witnesses Urge US to Confront the CCP’s War on Faith

They criticized the Chinese regime's human rights abuses and pushed for tougher U.S. responses.

Xi Jinping is preparing to go toe to toe with Donald Trump – and there will only be one winner | Simon Tisdall

Beijing has realised that reckless America First policies are alienating old and new friends alike, creating a vacuum it can fillHolding court for the cameras in Sharm el-Sheikh last week, a manically self-congratulatory Donald Trump, Gaza’s make-believe saviour, hailed...

Restrictions on Tibetan movement

Denial of passports to Tibetans is not simply an inconvenience but a calculated tool of political control, cultural erasure and religious suppression. By restricting mobility, the Chinese state vio...

‘It was as good aged 61 as it had been at 16’: readers’ favourite trips as older travellers

From Interrailing around Europe to trekking in the Himalayas, our tipsters share their memorable trips made later in life• Tell us about a great winter mountain holiday – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherI went Interrailing at...

Kanchha Sherpa, last member of first Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.