Asia's major delta systems, home to 400 million people, are being lost to rising sea levels, thirsty megacities and upstream dams
The government has ordered cafés across the country to record their customers' internet use to help its fight on 'fake news'
Labor rights advocates say Malaysia's factories are rife with migrant workers in debt bondage and that more companies could face similar bans
Another common concern among critics is that the center will combine government's alleged bias with the power to sue and arrest
Officially, the country of 32 million has only 128,000 poor people; some estimates say the real figure could top 6 million
Law allows government to act without court order against ‘crisis’ level cyber threats
Even if Malaysia's two largest Malay Muslim parties can't defeat the ruling coalition, they could pull it further away from its more progressive plans
The opposition is set to grill Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha next week for failing to recite a line in the oath of office to uphold the Constitution
R-Vision is fighting the Myanmar military and media narrative of the marginalized group with an unabashed agenda of its own
Some 50 million people downstream rely for a living on river's waters, along with fish and sediment it washes their way; researchers and environmental advocates say dam could block both
The inaugural exercise follows in the wake of Beijing's own first-ever series of drills with the bloc in the hotly contested South China Sea last year
Draft bill will make country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex unions but splits LGBT community for falling short of proposing full equal rights
"Prison is like hell on earth. There is no human dignity in the cell," says Siraphop, who adds he spent most of his days confined to a sweltering 5-by-12-meter room with 40 to 50 other men. "No food. No games. No books. Only drinking water."
Patients could start taking Thailand's first legal doses of medical cannabis oil this week, but it may be a long while yet before the government OK's recreational use
Legitimacy of National Human Rights Commission has been cast in doubt following recent resignation of two more members who claimed they could not perform their duties because of pro-government bias within group
Though Malaysia lets refugees register with UN refugee agency country provides them next to no aid and denies them right to work, while charging them for health care.
Rights groups say mounting evidence places most of the blame on the South Korean company leading dam's design and construction and Thai firm that should have been supervising work.
Pending amendments to the constitution could swell voter rolls by 50 percent.
'Without amending the Constitution, there will be no full restoration to democracy in this country,' said Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.
Attacks against pro-democracy activists have picked up since an election considered rigged by critics returned leaders of 2014 coup to power.
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