Move quickly condemned by military regime that seized control of country’s government last year
The Karen National Union denies claims by the US DEA that its armed wing planned to trade heroin for arms, including surface-to-air missiles
A tenuous truce and new framework for talks between the Thai government and separatist rebels is raising hopes of real progress toward a lasting peace
Disappointed by UN’s response to junta’s alleged atrocities, Myanmar Accountability Project hopes to see junta leaders on trial in Turkey’s courts
The Royal Thai Navy and China’s state-owned China Shipbuilding & Offshore International Co., or CSOC, signed the $402 million deal for the Yuan-class S26T submarine in 2017, with delivery originally expected by the end of next year.
Myanmar’s military junta is still struggling to hold much of the countryside more than a year after its coup, and faces mounting attacks in some urban areas, analysts say
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says armed groups 'on both sides' of Myanmar’s conflict have been spreading record volumes of meth over much of Asia since last year’s coup
Myanmar ethnic minority communities in US, elsewhere pouring hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of dollars into guerrilla war against junta
Seksakol Atthawong, a vice minister in the prime minister’s office, says he has 1 million signatures on a petition to kick the human rights group out of Thailand.
The Malaysian companies have either promised to investigate the allegations or announced plans to upgrade their employees’ cramped and dingy dormitories, reimburse them for the crippling fees they had to pay job recruiters and other reforms.
Azam Baki, chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, filed suit against Lalitha Kunaratnam January 12 seeking some $2.38 million in damages and costs over a pair of articles first published in October by the Independent News Service, a local online news outlet.
Rights groups say it’s deliberately starving civilians of lifesaving supplies to try to crush a growing armed resistance.
Thailand has sent four UN-registered refugees back to Cambodia in the past month, driving dozens of others into hiding.
As Laos braces for impact with its giant neighbor, China looks ahead to Thailand and Malaysia.
Analysts, advocates and lawmakers say a recent ruling that deems calls to rein in the country’s powerful monarchy unconstitutional cuts off a peaceful path to bridging Thailand’s liberal-conservative divide.
Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia are missing from the COP26 Declaration on Forests and Land Use. Indonesia has joined but cast doubt about its commitment.
Having rejected project before, government’s environmental watchdog is now on board; move could give Beijing new outpost for its sweeping Belt and Road Initiative.
Shareholders in India’s Bharat Electronics, which shipped a weapons system to Myanmar in July, include Goldman Sachs, Vanguard, BNP Paribas and Nippon Life.
That has been a major point of contention between China and those who blame the record 11 dams it has built across the mainstream for much of the decline in downstream fish stocks and the sediment flows critical to floodplain farming.
Since going live in mid-July, jitasa.care has seen well over 10,000 households sign on, seeking assistance for everything from food to oxygen to an urgent ride to the hospital, most of them in the capital, Bangkok.
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