I never had formal English training. Everything I learned came from programs like Voice of America’s Special English and Talk ...

The Trump administration is weighing a proposal to slash the State Department’s budget by $27 billion — nearly half — and ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the halt of Radio Free Asia’s shortwave services in Mandarin, Tibetan, and Lao ...

Reporters and human rights groups say the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for Global Media have ...

In early 2024, Spokane Valley native and retired diplomat Ryan Crocker knew the U.S.-funded, Arabic-language news ...

The U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot “force RFE/RL to shut down,” the judge wrote, “even if the President has told them to ...

As the U.S. and other Western nations withdraw funding for independent media and democratic institutions in places like ...

Washington — Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Congress created the government-funded Radio Free Asia to broadcast facts into countries where governments are afraid of them.

The editorial independence of RFA and other federally funded overseas broadcasters is essential to their credibility, their mission, and the safety of their reporters.

A few days before Chinese president Xi Jinping departed for Vietnam, international media reported the ‘disappearance’ and then the death of a highly respected Tibetan Lama, Trulku Hungkar Dorjee, in t ...