Satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows rapid progress on a new road bridge connecting North Korea and Russia across the Tumen River, while construction is also accelerating on a long-delayed bridge linking North Korea and China.

As Chinese officials raised the official death toll from the Nepal-Tibet mudslide to 43 on Saturday, a Tibetan resident told RFA on Sunday that 26 people died in Risur village, Kyirong county, alone, where the Kyirong (Gyirong in Chinese) border post is located.

As the death toll from last week’s glacial flooding disaster at the Tibet-Nepal border surpassed 1,000 on Tuesday, sources inside Tibet told Radio Free Asia that a group of 10 Tibetan travel guides are among the missing. AFP reported that more than 4,500 people were missing, but both the death toll and the number of missing could be higher, as exiled Tibetans and advocacy groups have accused China of underreporting casualty totals on the Tibetan side of the border.

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Satellite imagery taken at the Nepal-Tibet border shows extensive destruction from flooding and landslides that inundated the area Wednesday leaving hundreds of people dead or missing, but information from the Chinese-controlled side of the border is severely lacking, Tibetan rights activists told Radio Free Asia.

RFA's Eugene Whong explains how Kiribati detained a Chinese ship when its maritime police found shark fins on board.

Rescue teams rushed to find hundreds of people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 160, according to AFP. Many of the missing are foreign tourists, officials said of the disaster that wiped out entire villages. The death toll appeared likely to rise. A clip of surveillance video from the Chinese side of the frontier shows a raging wall of mud and debris crashing over a building several stories high on Wednesday morning, engulfing it as dozens of people run for their lives below. The surge sweeps away buses and cars like they are toys.

What do satellite images reveal about Larung Gar? They show Chinese authorities in Tibet expanding the demolition of the Buddhist academy over the past month. Read more: https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/08/19/larung-gar-china-demolition-buddhist-monks/

The Alliance Futures Initiative, or TAFI, a Washington-based think tank recently published a report that documented a targeted campaign to promote Beijing's latest five-year plan by nine Chinese Embassies in the Pacific. RFA's Eugene Whong interviewed the author of that report, Jonah Bock, who is TAFI's assistant director for research.

A tree in Hanoi was buried in flowers after the government spent 14 months explaining nothing. Here is what young Vietnamese found, and what happened when they refused to stop asking.

Three attempts. Two imprisonments. One river. Jang Eun-sook was 14 when smuggled South Korean dramas showed her another world. This is what it took to reach it.

Satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows construction underway on Pak Beng, Laos' latest large-scale hydropower project.

RFA's Eugene Whong interviewed Jonah Bock, research lead at The Alliance Futures Initiative on a report he authored on China's governance model export.