Analysts expect the crowds calling for democratic reforms to stay modest, so long as the government tempers its crackdown on critics and keeps the economy afloat
The $90 million then-U.S. President Barack Obama committed to helping rid Laos of old but still deadly US bombs is speeding up work, but the job could still take another decade or more
Human Rights Watch says government's curbs on schooling may help drive refugees into the arms of gangs, traffickers and radicals
Families facing imminent eviction to make way for Luang Prabang dam say authorities have promised to make them whole for their losses but few believe it
The court says Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit broke the law by holding shares in a media company while running for office, but the Future Forward party leader denies the charge
Malaysia is edging toward new deal with Dhaka to lift a ban imposed on migrant workers from Bangladesh more than a year ago over concerns that recruitment agencies were driving them into forced labor
Laos dismisses fears that its next hydropower dam on Mekong River would devastate downstream communities after neighboring countries and rights groups raised their doubts at regional forum in the capital last week
ASEAN, China and five other countries are expected to show strong progress toward finalizing a free trade deal that would cover 45 percent of the world's population
Having approved the dam, Laos will listen to feedback on its plans for the next six months; critics say it won't make a difference
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
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