Category: Regional
Death penalty possible in Burma cannabis farm case
A court in Myanmar on Tuesday formally charged an American man and two local co-workers with violating drug laws concerning marijuana, with potential penalties ranging from [...]
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Mineral misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by imports, climate
The salt farmers of Hon Khoi rise before dawn as they have for generations, fanning out across shallow seawater pools in southern Vietnam to harvest the precious mineral, [...]
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Three Burma nationals dead, 12 others injured in NSE accident
Three Myanmar national were killed while seven others were seriously injured when the driver of an SUV lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a highway divider. The [...]
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Some 250,000 Rohingya refugees receive first ID cards: UN
The UN said Friday it has registered more than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, providing many with their first ever identification cards and proof of their right to [...]
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Cambodian internet star who charmed tourists in a dozen languages arrives in China to chase university dream
The Cambodian teenager who became an internet star in November for hawking souvenirs in several languages has enrolled in a private middle school in east China’s [...]
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Keyboard predators: SE Asia’s kids targeted by online paedophiles
Southeast Asia is in the grip of a fresh surge of paedophile activity with predators orchestrating and watching abuse on live-streaming sites and via webcams, and paying for [...]
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Alleged Rohingya traffickers shot by Bangladesh police
Bangladeshi police shot dead two suspected Rohingya human traffickers, officials said Wednesday, after rescuing 103 refugees in two days about to make the perilous sea voyage [...]
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Asia must be ‘moderate voice’ in US-China rivalry, and help them to be frenemies: Singapore’s Goh Chok Tong
Asia’s smaller countries must avoid taking sides in the intensifying United States-China rivalry and instead urge the two world powers to “moderate their [...]
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Alleged Rohingya traffickers shot by Bangladesh police
Bangladeshi police shot dead two suspected Rohingya human traffickers, officials said Wednesday, after rescuing 103 refugees in two days about to make the perilous sea voyage [...]
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‘People are dying’: UN official urges aid access for Burma’s Rakhine state
A UN official has urged Myanmar to grant aid workers “predictable, sustained access” to Rakhine state, where fighting between government troops and rebels has [...]
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UN experts urge ‘financial isolation’ of Burma military
Myanmar’s military commanders should be financially “isolated” and brought to trial to face charges of war crimes and genocide against the Rohingya [...]
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Vietnam to mobilise military in fight against African swine fever
Vietnam said it will mobilise its military and police forces to help combat the outbreak of African swine fever that has already resulted in the culling of about 4 percent of [...]
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Bangladesh police ‘rescue’ dozens of Rohingya being trafficked to Malaysia
Bangladeshi police prevented dozens of Rohingya Muslims, most of them women, about to be trafficked to Malaysia by boat, authorities said on Tuesday. Traffickers had picked [...]
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Vietnam seizes half tonne of ketamine in crackdown on synthetic drugs
Vietnamese police have seized half a tonne of ketamine worth $21 million in HCM City, a key transit hub that has seen record busts of synthetic drugs in recent weeks as [...]
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Bangladesh rescues 23 Rohingya girls from traffickers
Twenty-three teenage Rohingya girls were rescued after being brought from refugee camps to the capital Dhaka to be sent to Malaysia by air, Bangladesh police said Sunday. [...]
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