Category: Regional
Australia hikes aid in Pacific as China pushes for influence
Australia is refocussing its foreign aid programmes in a move to win hearts and minds in the island nations of the Pacific, as an increasingly assertive China flexes its [...]
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Foreign reporters quit newspaper in Cambodia en masse after sale
As many as 13 foreign journalists have resigned en masse from a Cambodian newspaper, the Phnom Penh Post, in protest at what they called editorial interference following its [...]
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Oil prices down in Asia as focus turns to Trump, equities rise
Oil prices slipped in Asia on Tuesday morning from three-and-a-half-year highs as investors cautiously await Donald Trump’s Iran nuclear decision later in the day. The [...]
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Fears as Cambodia’s ‘last independent’ newspaper sold
A newspaper hailed as Cambodia’s last independent English daily has been sold to a Malaysian investor with apparent business links to premier Hun Sen, rattling a [...]
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Suspected water contamination kills 10 Cambodians; 120 ill
Ten Cambodian villagers have died and 120 others have been sickened after drinking water suspected to be contaminated with insecticide, a health official said Sunday. The [...]
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Malaysia halts people-smuggling ship bound for Australia, NZealand
Malaysia has arrested more than a dozen members of an alleged people trafficking syndicate after intercepting a ship carrying 127 Sri Lankan migrants believed to be bound for [...]
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Burma journalists say government failing to protect press freedom survey
Journalists in Myanmar believe their government is failing to defend media freedom despite the transition from harsh military rule to an elected government of Aung San Suu [...]
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?Burma court accepts testimony of policeman who said Reuters reporters framed
A judge in Myanmar declared on Wednesday that a witness who said two Reuters reporters accused of possessing state secrets were framed by police was credible, dealing a blow [...]
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Up to 200,000 Rohingyas at risk from monsoon rains in Bangladesh
The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) on Tuesday said that up to 200,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, including 55,000 children, are at risk from [...]
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UN could help Burma gather evidence of crimes against RohingyaBritish envoy
Britain’s UN envoy on Tuesday suggested the UN Security Council could consider helping Myanmar collect evidence of crimes committed during a military crackdown of the [...]
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The Latest: Macron, Turnbull remind China on South Pacific
The Latest on French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Australia (all times local): 4:30 p.m. French President Emmanuel Macron has raised eyebrows during his visit [...]
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UN envoys meet with Burma leader over refugee crisis
Myanmar’s government leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with United Nations Security Council envoys on Monday over the plight of nearly 700,000 mainly Rohingya Muslims who [...]
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Thousands call for aid access for villagers trapped by fighting in Burma
Thousands of people rallied on Monday in Myanmar’s war-torn Kachin State to demand humanitarian access for villagers trapped by fighting between government forces and [...]
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Dozens hospitalised as Burma battles week-long landfill fire
Firefighters in Myanmar scrambled to put out a fire in a massive garbage dump on the edge of its largest city, Yangon, as foul-smelling smoke from the burning trash that [...]
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Security Council envoys hear of rapes, murders from Rohingya refugees
Hundreds of Rohingya staged a demonstration Sunday as UN Security Council envoys visited refugee camps in Bangladesh where about 700,000 people who have fled Myanmar in the [...]
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