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
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
Siraphop Kornaroot spent five years in jail for a trio of Facebook posts, without ever being convicted of a crime
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
But analysts say any insurgents involved in the attacks may have acted for others, as they've done before
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
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