Category: Regional
Burma opens hydrocarbons auction
Myanmar has opened a long-awaited auction for 30 offshore oil and gas exploration blocks in its latest effort to attract foreign investment even as it considers recasting a [...]
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Burma police slow to adjust to unfamiliar role of peacekeepers
After decades in the shadow of the military, Myanmar’s ragtag police force has found itself thrust onto the security frontline – and under fire for failing to [...]
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Rights group questions Burma reforms
The European Union should keep some sanctions in place to let Myanmar’s government know it’s time to take reform seriously, a global rights federation said. World [...]
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Burma pipeline to China leaks
An 800-kilometre gas pipeline in northern Myanmar has sprung leaks, community groups said Thursday, raising further safety and environmental concerns over the $2 billion [...]
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Toyota plans production base in Laos
Toyota will establish a production base in the Savan-Seno Special Economic Zone (Zone C) in Savannakhet province to manufacture vehicle-interior components for export. The [...]
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High speed rail coming to Laos
There are “no obstacles” to Laos’ planned high-speed rail link from China, the country’s transport minister was quoted as saying Thursday, days after [...]
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Burma pipeline to China leaks
An 800-kilometre gas pipeline in northern Myanmar has sprung leaks, community groups said Thursday, raising further safety and environmental concerns over the $2 billion [...]
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Asean, China to meet on maritime code of conduct
Foreign ministers from Asean and China will hold a special meeting to hasten progress on a code of conduct in the disputed South China Sea, Indonesia’s foreign minister [...]
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Kerry heads to Korea as tensions soar
US Secretary of State John Kerry was headed for South Korea Thursday on his maiden trip to Asia in a show of American support for regional allies as tensions soar over a [...]
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US pressed to seek rights improvements from Vietnam
Lawmakers and activists called Thursday for the United States to press Vietnam to free dissidents and allow greater religious freedom as the two nations hold talks on human [...]
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Taiwan moves closer to setting up China liaison office
Taiwan’s cabinet Thursday approved regulations governing the opening of a China liaison office on the island, a priority in efforts to normalise relations with its [...]
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Betagro to build Cambodia plant
Betagro Group will build an animal-feed plant in Cambodia with a capacity of more than 200,000 tonnes a year to cash in on the growing livestock business in the neighbouring [...]
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Cambodia’s K Rouge court to be ‘downsized’
Cambodia said Wednesday it would downsize its Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, following a shortage of funds that disrupted a major trial of former top regime leaders. [...]
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Obama budget makes cybersecurity a growing US priority
President Barack Obama proposed on Wednesday increased spending to protect U.S. computer networks from Internet-based attacks in a sign that the government aims to put more [...]
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Australia probes how asylum boat reached mainland
Australia ordered an investigation on Wednesday into how an asylum-seeker boat managed to reach one of the country’s busiest ports undetected and warned those on board [...]
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