By Osama Ali Key Takeaways: Flash floods along the Nepal–China border have killed at least 579 people; more than 200 are missing in Nepal and Chinese media put 558 missing in Tibet’s Gyirong County (including 260 foreigners), with possible...

By Fabrice Robinet Key Takeaways: A Himalayan slope failure on Wednesday (registered as magnitude 5.2) sent ice, rock, and water down the Lhende Khola/Bhotekoshi system; by Friday more than 500 were reported dead in Nepal and Tibet and over 1,500...

Key Takeaways: Ten years after the 2016 escalation in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch says mass detention, imprisonment, surveillance, cultural and religious restrictions, travel controls, and pressure on Uyghurs abroad continue, despite Beijing’s claims of normalcy. HRW cites UN findings...

Key Takeaways: India will host the BRICS summit in New Delhi on September 12–13, but Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attendance is still unconfirmed after he skipped the 2025 Brazil BRICS meeting and the 2023 New Delhi G20 summit amid...

This week, India’s private airline Indigo flew one of its A320 planes from Kolkata to Guangzhou. It was the first direct flight from India to China in five years, following its halt during the Covid-19 pandemic and the souring of relations...

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...

By Rikard Jozwiak (RFE/RL) -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa will meet with the Chinese president and prime minister in Beijing on July 24 in what is expected to be a tense...

By Deepak Kumar Nayak On July 12, 2025, 23 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres, carrying a cumulative cash bounty of INR 11.8 million, surrendered before the State Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Sukma District in...

On May 14, 2025, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs unveiled its fifth batch of “standardized” names for 27 places located in Arunachal Pradesh province of India, which it refers to as “Zangnan” in Mandarin and Tibetan languages.

Amid the sound of drums, music, and applause, the Dalai Lama stepped into Dharamsala’s main temple courtyard on Sunday, his 90th birthday. Welcomed by Tibetan cultural performers, the Tibetan spiritual leader was greeted by schoolchildren dressed in uniforms, monks,...