Category: Regional
Cambodia launches crackdown on Chinese prostitution rings
Up to 50 Chinese nationals have been detained in Cambodia as part of a crackdown on prostitution rings in Sihanoukville province, a Chinese investment hub, the provincial [...]
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Fire hits Burma hospital, patients evacuated on stretchers
A fire broke out in a hospital in Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon late on Monday, forcing staff to evacuate patients on stretchers and in wheelchairs, rescuers said. [...]
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Wider Image: ‘Hijab is like a key’Burma blogger battles bias with beauty campaign
Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar usually keep a low profile for fear of intimidation, but Win Lae Phyu Sin, one of the community’s rare bloggers on beauty care, has [...]
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Vietnam communist war hero turned dissident Bui Tin dies aged 90
sA Vietnamese former colonel and revolutionary war hero who became disillusioned with the communist regime and defected, becoming one of its most vocal and influential [...]
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Catalogue of abuse: seeking justice for the Rohingya
Cross-legged in a windowless, almost pitch-black bamboo shack, the investigator pressed record on a video camera and asked the young Rohingya woman to describe the night the [...]
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Cambodia seizes record ecstasy haul hidden in pet food boxes
Cambodian authorities seized nearly 100 kilogrammes of ecstasy hidden in pet food shipments from Germany, police said Monday, after charging a Chinese national in connection [...]
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Burma asks Bangladesh to stop aid to stranded Rohingya
Myanmar has asked Bangladesh to stop providing aid to 6,000 Rohingya stranded on the border between the two countries since a military crackdown prompted a mass exodus of the [...]
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Wife of jailed Reuters journalist in Burma gives birth
The wife of imprisoned Reuters journalist Wa Lone, who is facing up to 14 years in jail in Myanmar for allegedly violating the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, gave birth [...]
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Vietnam activist put under house arrest for defacing flag
A Vietnamese activist was put under house arrest and barred from leaving the country after she defaced the national flag, she told AFP Friday, vowing to fight for democracy [...]
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Cambodia PM Facebook hacked to ‘give away parliament seats’
Hackers targeted the official Facebook page of Cambodia’s premier Hun Sen on Friday and falsely claimed he would cede several parliamentary seats, an official said, [...]
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Maldives seeks scaling back of Indian presence as it woos China
The Maldives wants India to withdraw military helicopters and personnel posted there following the expiry of an agreement in June, its envoy said, the latest snub to New [...]
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Vietnam deputy police minister sacked amid corruption crackdown
Vietnamese prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday fired the deputy police minister, the highest ranking police official to be removed in a corruption crackdown in the [...]
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Top Vietnam security official fired over fugitive spy links
Vietnam fired a deputy minister of public security on Wednesday for allegedly aiding a fugitive spy, as communist officials extend their unprecedented anti-corruption drive [...]
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Cambodia’s parliament to convene in September after controversial vote
Cambodia’s parliament will convene on September 5, prime minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday, after his ruling party claimed victory in what critics say was a sham [...]
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Asia’s ‘big six’ who will be in big trouble if China pulls the yuan trigger
OECD data shows Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia Southeast Asia’s ‘big six’ economies are among the most exposed economies [...]
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