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
Pending amendments to 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
Asia Foundation says helping Thailand’s rural northeast will be key to taming country’s turbulent politics
Malaysia is threatening to take its defense business elsewhere if the EU makes good on plans to cut palm oil imports, Will it work?
But rights groups say report glosses over still-dangerous realities in western Myanmar's Rakhine State
The bloc's report praises Myanmar's efforts to ready the refugees' "smooth" return. Rights groups say it's glossing over the government's part in driving them out.
Activists say Southeast Asia has become "the world's new dumpsite" for plastic waste and needs a coordinated response to stop it
At the end of five years of military rule, the social schisms that led up to Thailand's 2014 coup remain, and they actually may be growing
Prayuth Chan-ocha, who toppled Thailand's elected government five years ago, will stay in power but he may well find it harder to have his way
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