RFA Insider #15: Cambodia's Hun Sen, Tibet's caterpillar fungus, Laos jails for jokes

09/13/24 • 48 min

*Off Beat*

Discussing Cambodian strongman Hun Sen with Vuthy Huot and Poly Sam from RFA Khmer

*Podcast Free Asia*

The other RFA Podcast, Master of Deceit, is about Wang Shujun, a New Yorker convicted of spying for China, not about those other three New Yorkers arrested for or convicted of spying for China.

*The Rundown*

Caterpillar fungus trade affected by climate change, over harvesting, and counterfeits

Lao video editors get in trouble for editing videos of roads with potholes

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*Off Beat*

Discussing Cambodian strongman Hun Sen with Vuthy Huot and Poly Sam from RFA Khmer

*Podcast Free Asia*

The other RFA Podcast, Master of Deceit, is about Wang Shujun, a New Yorker convicted of spying for China, not about those other three New Yorkers arrested for or convicted of spying for China.

*The Rundown*

Caterpillar fungus trade affected by climate change, over harvesting, and counterfeits

Lao video editors get in trouble for editing videos of roads with potholes

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

RFA Insider #15: Cambodia's Hun Sen, Tibet's caterpillar fungus, Laos jails for jokes

*Off Beat*

Discussing Cambodian strongman Hun Sen with Vuthy Huot and Poly Sam from RFA Khmer

*Podcast Free Asia*

The other RFA Podcast, Master of Deceit, is about Wang Shujun, a New Yorker convicted of spying for China, not about those other three New Yorkers arrested for or convicted of spying for China.

*The Rundown*

Caterpillar fungus trade affected by climate change, over harvesting, and counterfeits

Lao video editors get in trouble for editing videos of roads with potholes

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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 praises

The AFCL checks into Chinese businessman Victor Gao's claim that 10% of Taiwan's population is descended from Japanese who lived there when it was a colony

The Gumball 3,000 supercar rally runs through five Southeast Asian countries, including a leg through Cambodia and Ankor Wat.

Kanye West performs in Hainan, China, which is suprising becaue the Chinese government is not often welcoming to Western artists

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