Monitors say a 24-year-old Tibetan man set himself on fire Saturday outside a monastery in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, a region heavily populated by ethnic Tibetans who protest China’s policies in their nearby homeland. A statement Sunday from the organization “Free Tibet” said the man self-immolated Saturday afternoon, drawing a large detachment of police and […]
At least 18 people were killed and more than 30 injured in Panama Sunday when a bus went off a highway and flipped into a river southwest of the capital. All the dead and the injured, many in critical condition, were aboard the bus, which was carrying more than 50 farm workers traveling from the […]
SEOUL — North Korea fired four ballistic missiles early Monday, three of which flew 1,000 kilometers before landing in the sea within 350 kilometers of the Japanese mainland, according to South Korean and Japanese officials. It is unlikely, however, that Monday’s test was that of a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM.) “South Korea and the U.S. […]
The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was assassinated Monday in Malaysia, according to South Korean government sources. VOA contacted South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, which neither confirmed nor denied the death of Kim Jong Nam. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Kim Jong Nam was killed by two unidentified North Korean female […]