Category: Regional
Southeast Asia to suffer intense, more frequent drought without government action: UN and Asean report
Drought in Southeast Asia may become even more frequent and intense if countries do not take steps to reduce its impact, according to a joint study from the United Nations [...]
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Grassed up: Facebook leads Burma police to weed-growing Americans
Myanmar police have arrested one American and two locals after photos on Facebook led them to a huge plantation of towering marijuana plants near Mandalay. Pictures of the [...]
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Rescuers battle to find bodies in Burma mudslide
Recovery teams in Myanmar fought against a huge lake of sludge on Wednesday in their search for bodies after a landslide engulfed more than 50 jade minersthe latest fatal [...]
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Burma Court Rejects Imprisoned Reuters Journalists’ Final Appeals
On Tuesday, Myanmar’s Supreme Court rejected the appeals of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters reporters who have been jailed in the country since December 2017, [...]
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China’s belt and road may accelerate exit of manufacturing to Vietnam and India, researchers warn
The trade war with the United States coupled with the “Belt and Road Initiative” has the potential to add further pressure to China’s sluggish economy and [...]
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Cambodian and Thai leaders mark reopening of rail link
The leaders of Cambodia and Thailand met Monday at the Thai border town of Aranyaprathet to mark the ceremonial reopening of a rail link that will restore train service [...]
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Burma’s top court rejects final appeal by jailed Reuters journalists
Myanmar’s top court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail for breaking the Official Secrets Act, in a landmark case [...]
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Vietnamese ex-president who ousted Khmer Rouge dies aged 99
General Le Duc Anh, a Communist party hardliner and former Vietnamese president who led the invasion of Cambodia which led to the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, has died [...]
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Asian leaders focus on malaria as region leads the world in fight against the disease
Asia has made “extraordinary” progress towards eliminating malaria, but is still in danger of relapse if funds dry up, one of the most senior officials leading [...]
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‘Masters of our destiny’: Burma’s Wa rebels in show of force
It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one member of each householdmeet the United Wa State Army: Communist, reclusive, [...]
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Malaysia arrests Vietnam poachers, seizes tiger, bear parts
Malaysian authorities have arrested two suspected poachers from Vietnam and seized body parts from tigers and bears, a minister said Tuesday, as the country clamps down on [...]
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Burma pardons more than 9,000 prisoners in New Year amnesty
Myanmar began releasing more than 9,000 prisoners from jails on Wednesday, after the president announced an amnesty on the first day of the traditional New Year. President [...]
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Vietnam ‘quietly upgrades’ facilities in West Philippine Sea
Vietnam is not ‘facing the same reaction from China’s maritime militia forces as the Philippines recently has,’ says the Asia Maritime Transparency [...]
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Will Brunei’s anti-LGBT Sharia law spread across Southeast Asia?
Brunei’s new law punishing homosexual sex with death by stoning has sent a wave of fear across the LGBT population in neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia. On April 3, [...]
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Washington senator registers to lobby for Cambodia
Washington state Republican Sen. Doug Ericksen has registered as a foreign agent in order to consult and lobby for the country of Cambodia. Under documents filed with the US [...]
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