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Radio Free Asia operates under a Congressional mandate to deliver uncensored, domestic news and information to China, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Burma, among other places in Asia with poor media environments and few, if any, free speech protections.
Laos. / 17.967°N 102.600°E / 17.967; 102.600. Laos, [e] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao PDR or LPDR ), [f] is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and ...
Radio Free Asia (RFA) was a news agency operated from 1951 to 1955 by the Central Intelligence Agency, through the Committee for Free Asia, to broadcast anti-Communist propaganda.: 120 RFA first broadcast in 1951 from RCA facilities in Manila, Philippines. Broadcasts were made in three Chinese dialects, as well as in English.
The politics of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (commonly known as Laos) takes place in the framework of a one-party parliamentary socialist republic. [1] The only legal political party is the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). [2] The head of state is President Thongloun Sisoulith, who is also the LPRP general secretary, making him ...
Updated March 30, 2024 at 2:50 PM. HONG KONG — Radio Free Asia is closing its bureau in Hong Kong, the U.S.-funded media outlet said Friday, citing concerns about staff safety in the Chinese ...
The official news agency, Khaosan Pathet Lao (KPL), supplies information to other media outlets under government regulations. There are about 24 regularly printed newspapers in Laos, and all are government affiliated. Newspapers in Laos are described by the Southeast Asian Press Alliance as a "mouthpiece" rather than watchdog of the state.
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Radio Free Asia reported in October 2021 that some Lao villagers displaced from their land by the line's construction complained that they had still not received compensation. In the first year of operation, the railway only allowed ticket purchases up to three days in advance and online sales were not available.