RFA Insider

Jan 31 2025 28 ep. 45 mins 2

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Kick back with RFA staffers Amy Lee and Eugene Whong as they discuss Radio Free Asia's latest stories and take you behind the scenes to show you how RFA journalists use their expertise and connections to deliver the news to our global audience.
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Life in Myanmar's Kayah state after rebels pushed out the junta | RFA Insider #25

Jan 31 2025 45 mins

*Off Beat*RFA staffers Jim Snyder and Gemunu Amarasinghe recently traveled to Myanmar's Kayah state where rebel insurgents have taken control of the countryside and are trying to establish a new state government.*Double Off Beat*Production engineer Wa Than discusses his recent trip to Thailand where he met with Burmese youth who fled the Myanmar junta's conscription orders. Hosted

What is the RedNote app and why are TikTok users moving there? | RFA Insider #24

Jan 17 2025 45 mins

*Off Beat*An exodus of TikTok users are migrating en masse to another Chinese social media platform, RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu. RFA Uyghur's Shahrezad Ghayrat, breaks it down for us.*Double Off Beat*RFA Mandarin's Kitty Wang discusses U.S.-China relations under the new administration from China's point of view Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2024 in review | RFA Insider #23

Jan 03 2025 46 mins

This is a "clip episode" highlighting some of the best moments of RFA Insider in 2024, its first year in production.We explored many topics in our first year, including: Vietnamese Monk Thich Minh Tue and his pilgrimage across the country, and who is now traveling on foot to India.North Korea sending soldiers to fight alongside Russia against Ukraine, and both countries trying to h

Why is Russia burning dead North Korean soldiers' faces in Ukraine? | RFA Insider #22

Dec 20 2024 44 mins

*Off Beat*Discussing shocking news of Russians burning North Korean soldiers' faces in war with Ukraine with RFA Korean's Jaewoo Park.*Podcast Free Asia* Answering a comment about Vietnam's "barefoot monk" Thich Minh Tue, and revealing RFA's plan to publish a map that tracks his location.*Double Off Beat*Discussing H6, an alleged spy with ties to British royalty. RFA Investigative

Martial law in South Korea, US-China prisoner swap: RFA Insider #21

Dec 06 2024 43 mins

*Off Beat*Jun You from RFA Korean joins the Insiders to discuss South Korea's martial law declaration and reversal, and how the checks and balances present in a developed democracy in South Korea are not present in the North, where the word of the leader is the law of the land.*The Rundown*Tara McKelvey of RFA Investigative talks about the recent spy exchange between the U.S. and C

What Jimmy Lai's 'sham' trial means for Hong Kong's freedom: RFA Insider #20

Nov 22 2024 68 mins

*Off Beat*Mark Clifford, president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation discusses the trial of Jimmy Lai, the media mogul charged with sedition and collusion in violation of Hong Kong's National Security Law, and what the trial means for press freedom in the former British colony.*Podcast Free Asia*RFA Multimedia's very own Lauren Kim discusses a kimchi taste test v

What Trump's election win could mean for US foreign policy in Asia: RFA Insider #19

Nov 08 2024 45 mins

*Off Beat*RFA English's State Dept. correspondent Alex Willemyns discusses possible changes in U.S. foreign policy in Asia after Trump's election victory.*The Rundown*The Myanmar junta jailed a citizen for criticizing the title of a movie as being discriminatory to religious minorities.Vietnam builds a new airstrip on an artificial island built atop a reef in the disputed Spratley

Panda diplomacy, North Korean troops in Russia, China bans Halloween: RFA Insider #18

Oct 25 2024 73 mins

RFA Insider #18DOUBLE LENGTH EPISODE!*SPECIAL REPORT*Amy and Eugene visited the Smithsonian National Zoo in late September to get to the bottom of Panda diplomacy and to try to figure out when the new pandas would arrive. While there, they went *Off Beat* by talking to the zoo's director Brandie Smith, who stressed that conservation was the panda program's goal.*Podcast Free Asia*N

RFA Insider #17: 10 years in Hong Kong: from Umbrella Movement to Article 23

Oct 11 2024 47 mins

*Off Beat*Kelis Wong from RFA Cantonese discusses the past 10 years in Hong Kong, and how protests in 2014, known as the Umbrella Movement or Occupy Central, led into subsequent protests in 2019 over an extradition law and then again in 2024 over the passage of Article 23.*The Rundown*North Koreans get punished for not saving portraits of their previous leaders as they escaped from

RFA Insider #16: Putin loves North Korea, Taiwan's '10%', supercars in Cambodia, Kanye's China concert

Sep 27 2024 42 mins

This episode of RFA Insider is a practice run in "live to tape" format, indicating that we will in the future do a livestreamed episode.*The Rundown*North Korean lectures tell the people that Vladimir Putin loves Kim Jong Un more than others. Meanwhile the people are getting sick of a propaganda song singing his praisesThe AFCL checks into Chinese businessman Victor Gao's claim tha