ASEAN

Japan PM set to visit SE Asia in late April

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning a visit to Southeast Asia later this month to counter China’s growing assertiveness…

3 years ago

Myanmar’s largest cities empty amid call to boycott Thingyan festivities

Yangon and Mandalay were eerily quiet on Wednesday despite the start of the three-day Thingyan holiday in Myanmar, as residents…

3 years ago

Bangladesh home minister: Rohingya have babies to get more food aid

The way food aid is distributed to Rohingya needs to be adjusted because it is driving population growth in the…

3 years ago

Vietnam upholds former police officer’s 2-year sentence over traffic spat

An appellate court in Vietnam upheld the two-year sentence of a former policeman arrested last year for “resisting officers on…

3 years ago

Thai authorities release Vietnamese dissident with UN refugee status

A Vietnamese political dissident granted refugee status by the United Nations but held by immigration authorities in Thailand for possible…

3 years ago

As Lao dam plans progress, farmers worry about compensation for lost land

Chinese developers are preparing to begin work on two major hydropower dams to be built on the Mekong River in…

3 years ago

Only a few thousand tigers survive in Asia in 2022

With the lunar Year of the Tiger well under way, various assessments show that only a few thousand tigers at…

3 years ago

Myanmar Central Bank official confirmed alive after assassination attempt

The deputy governor of Myanmar’s Central Bank is alive and recuperating at a military hospital in the country’s commercial capital…

3 years ago

Vietnam charges former cop for recording his traffic spat with police

A former Vietnamese policeman who in January was sentenced to two years over a traffic spat received an additional charge…

3 years ago

Lao villagers beaten, detained by soldiers in land dispute

Five Lao villagers were beaten and detained Sunday in a village north of Vientiane by soldiers who said the group…

3 years ago

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