Bill's proponents hope it will help country’s sex workers ply their trade more safely and earn higher wages
Muhyiddin Yassin was arrested at the headquarters of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission after arriving for questioning in an ongoing graft case
UN cuts its monthly food vouchers for refugees to $10 a head and says it may have to cut again without 'immediate funding boost'
To cope with the surge, the country’s minister of public health is proposing tough new rules that could see anyone caught with more than one pill labeled a dealer
Two years after toppling an elected government, Myanmar’s military regime has declared martial law over swaths of the country where armed resistance is still strong
With elections tentatively planned for late 2023, experts are warning of an especially violent year ahead
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says Myanmar’s farmers are flocking back to opium cultivation to cope with a tanking economy
Fortify Rights and 16 Myanmar nations are asking Germany’s federal public prosecutor to probe, charge military leaders under principle of universal jurisdiction
Carrying 180 people, boat follows one with 57 Rohingya men that landed in Aceh province on Sumatra the day before
10-year anniversary of Sombath Somphone’s suspected abduction draws attention to enforced disappearances across the region
UN reports a more than sixfold increase in people attempting perilous boat trips across the Andaman Sea this year
Fundamental tensions over race, corruption expected to test its survival
Cannabis sellers, growers and smokers rally outside national government’s headquarters in Bangkok to discourage authorities from placing the plant back on controlled narcotics list
Popular progressive and conservative challengers to the ruling Barisan Nasional, and an unprecedented influx of young new voters, are making Saturday’s poll too close to call
Experts say outbreak of fighting in Rakhine State could escalate and further drain military already 'leaking like a sponge' from casualties and defections
In a detailed new report, the rights group says civilian and military jet fuel supplies in post-coup Myanmar are 'inextricably linked' and that all shipments to the country should stop
‘I must take care of our country first before taking care of outsiders,’ said Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin
Rights groups say rules have too many reasons to reject worthy applicants
Experts welcome some of the proposals but doubt they’re enough to thwart a repeat or drive down one of the highest firearm ownership rates in Asia
‘They’ve been tortured mentally and physically,’ says Hishamuddin Hashim of the Malaysian International Humanitarian Organization
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