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RFI | Cambodian exiled opposition leader wants a peaceful people's movement | headline

RFI | Cambodian exiled opposition leader wants a peaceful people's movement | headline

Exiled Cambodian opposition party leader Sam Rainsy, who was prevented by Thai Airways from boarding a flight to Cambodia from Paris, spoke ...
RFI | France and China sign billions in aviation, energy, agriculture deals | headline

RFI | France and China sign billions in aviation, energy, agriculture deals | headline

France and China signed €13.5 billion in deals on Wednesday, the last day of a three-day official visit to China by French president Emmanue...
RFI | Satellite of iconic Pompidou Centre launched in Shanghai | headline

RFI | Satellite of iconic Pompidou Centre launched in Shanghai | headline

France's Pompidou Centre has inaugurated a riverside branch in Shanghai -  the modern and contemporary art museum's first outpost ou...
RFI | President Macron says Europe-China climate cooperation 'decisive' | headline

RFI | President Macron says Europe-China climate cooperation 'decisive' | headline

French President Emmanuel Macron has insisted that cooperation between Europe and Beijing on reducing climate-warming emissions will be ...
RFI | Correspondent's call: pollution in India | headline

RFI | Correspondent's call: pollution in India | headline

The Delhi government today rolled out a 12-day scheme to curb rising air pollution in India’s capital. The plan will limit motorists to alte...
RFI | Vietnam police arrest eight over UK truck deaths | headline

RFI | Vietnam police arrest eight over UK truck deaths | headline

Vietnam has arrested eight more people in connection with the deaths of 39 people found in a truck in Britain last month who are believed to...
RFI | France’s Macron heads to China for state visit | headline

RFI | France’s Macron heads to China for state visit | headline

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Shanghai this Monday in a push for China to open its markets to foreign investors, with Chinese ...
RFI | India declares unprecedented air pollution emergency in Delhi | headline

RFI | India declares unprecedented air pollution emergency in Delhi | headline

Schools in the Indian capital have been shut until early in the week due to alarming levels of pollution, with authorities declaring an unpr...
RFI | UN chief warns impunity for crimes against journalists on the rise | headline

RFI | UN chief warns impunity for crimes against journalists on the rise | headline

United Nation Secretary General has warned of a rise in the scale and number of attacks against media workers in recent years, on the Intern...
RFI | China Communist Party has Hong Kong in crosshairs | headline

RFI | China Communist Party has Hong Kong in crosshairs | headline

China's Communist Party says it will keep on respecting Hong Kong’s autonomy but expressed impatience with the ongoing unrest, making th...
RFI | India's IndiGo places massive 300-plane Airbus order worth €30bn | headline

RFI | India's IndiGo places massive 300-plane Airbus order worth €30bn | headline

Indian budget airline IndiGo is close to placing a near-record order for more than 300 Airbus A320neo-family jets worth $33 billion at recen...
RFI | Northern Ireland driver of truck found with 39 bodies appears in British court | headline

RFI | Northern Ireland driver of truck found with 39 bodies appears in British court | headline

The driver of a truck in which 39 people were found dead appeared in a British court via video link on manslaughter and people-trafficking c...
RFI | China’s Communist Party convenes after long delay | headline

RFI | China’s Communist Party convenes after long delay | headline

For the first time in 20 months, a full session of China’s Communist Party Central Committee is being held in Beijing. The meeting takes pla...
RFI | Visitors rush to be the last to climb Australia's magestic Uluru | headline

RFI | Visitors rush to be the last to climb Australia's magestic Uluru | headline

Hundreds of tourists on Friday became the last to scale Uluru – Australia’s famous sacred red rock – ahead of a permanent climbing ban. Fr...
RFI | French film exposes roots of crime against Myanmar's Rohingya | headline

RFI | French film exposes roots of crime against Myanmar's Rohingya | headline

Two years after hundreds of thousands of Myanmar's Muslim ethnic minority were forced to flee in a military-led crackdown, a new film ca...
RFI | Three men charged for gang-raping French tourist in Cambodia | headline

RFI | Three men charged for gang-raping French tourist in Cambodia | headline

A Cambodian court has charged three men with gang-raping a French tourist in the coastal province of Kampot after offering her a ride in the...
RFI | Fear and panic in Assam as millions left off national register | headline

RFI | Fear and panic in Assam as millions left off national register | headline

India's only foreigner detention center which will house illegal immigrants in the north-eastern state of Assam will be operational earl...
RFI | What will happen to Assam's forgotten citizens? | headline

RFI | What will happen to Assam's forgotten citizens? | headline

Nearly two million people from the north-eastern Indian state of Assam may lose their citizenship after the government brought out the final...
RFI | China and US in violent war of words over Hong Kong | headline

RFI | China and US in violent war of words over Hong Kong | headline

Beijing and Washington, already engaged in a 15-month trade war, have exchanged angry words over Hong Kong, after the US Congress introduced...
RFI | Facial recognition forced on 800 million Chinese internet users | headline

RFI | Facial recognition forced on 800 million Chinese internet users | headline

On December 1, Chinese who access the internet via their portable phones will be required to register via facial-recognition technology. The...