"US broadcaster Radio Free Asia (RFA) announced on Wednesday that it will stop all of its news operations effective Friday. It will be the first time the international broadcaster has completely gone off air since it was founded nearly 30 years ago. RFA is one the few reliable sources of news in regions of Asia where authoritarian governments limit people's access to information."
"RFA, which produced news in multiple Asian languages, was founded in 1996 to report on China and other Asian countries with limited press freedom, including North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar. It provided one of the world's only independent news services in Uyghurlanguage, reporting on China's systematic persecution of the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang province. Back in 2017, it was the first to report on the arbitrary detention of more than 1 million Uyghurs in internment camps."
Radio Free Asia will stop all news operations effective Friday, the first complete shutdown since its 1996 founding. The broadcaster drastically scaled back programming earlier after President Donald Trump cut most federal funding in March, leading to layoffs of almost 90% of its US-based workforce and prior cessation of Tibetan, Burmese, Uyghur and English programs. Ongoing federal government shutdown and resulting funding uncertainty make continuation of editorial operations impossible, prompting closures of overseas bureaus, formal layoffs of furloughed staff, and severance payments. RFA had provided independent reporting, notably in Uyghur, exposing China's mass detention of more than one million Uyghurs.
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