Story Archive
2023-07-10
Rights groups, family fear Thol Samnang could be persecuted if forced to return to Cambodia.
2023-07-08
Samoa’s government said no approval was given to ventures that were launched at a Hong Kong ceremony.
2023-07-07
Meanwhile, an international prosecutor who visited Cox’s Bazar calls for more support for hungry refugees.
2023-07-07
Vietnam has banned the screening of the movie Barbie, and now the Philippines might follow suit. Because of a scene in the film depicting a South China Sea map with the controversial “nine-dash line”. Bangladesh is seeing a spike in dengue cases and deaths. Cases of the mosquito-borne diseases have been climbing in Rohingya refugee camps too. And find out what’s standing in the way of Pita Limjaroenrat becoming Thailand’s 30th prime minister.
2023-07-07
Burmese civil society groups say “ineffective” five-point consensus “emboldens” junta.
2023-07-07
U.S. has sanctioned the mega-church leader Apollo Quiboloy, who is wanted by the FBI for alleged sex crimes.
2023-07-07
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s visit to China will be his second since the Solomons recognized Beijing in 2019.
2023-07-07
Vietnam thought the studio was taking China’s side in the emotive South China Sea territorial dispute.
2023-07-06
About 500,000 workers from other Southeast Asian countries failed to meet a mid-May deadline, government says.
2023-07-06
A “gang of men” fatally beat Shahidul Islam after he sought back pay for workers.
2023-07-06
Among the items is the Lombok treasure – 335 gold and silver items that Dutch troops plundered after killing hundreds of people.
2023-07-06
Neither side mentioned the Melanesian independence struggle in Indonesia’s Papuan provinces that border PNG.
2023-07-06
China must ensure the renewable energy transition is ‘fair,’ authors say.
2023-07-06
The two officials discussed ways to improve defense relations, they said, without revealing specifics.
2023-07-05
The Philippine president has also shielded his predecessor from an international probe into the nation’s drug war.