Unsustainable growth and lack of effective client protection in Cambodia’s microfinance sector have increased borrowers’ debts and led to the confiscation of their land when they can’t repay loans, according to a report by two Cambodian human rights NG…

A court in Myanmar on Tuesday dismissed an objection by former State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to documents presented by military prosecutors as evidence in her trial on “incitement” charges, although her defense team vowed to fight the decision in an…

Nearly 200 people in northwest Myanmar’s strife-torn Kalay township are believed to have died of COVID-19 in June alone, with many left untreated as medical staff joined anti-junta protests or were arrested by the military, sources said Tuesday.
Myanma…

On March 9, Myanmar junta soldiers raided the office of Kamayut Media in Yangon, arresting the online news outlet’s co-founders, Nathan Maung, 45, and Han Thar Nyein, 40. Maung, Kamayut’s editor-in-chief, and Hanthar Nyein, a news producer, were held a…

Members of Myanmar’s LGBT community are being targeted for humiliation by security forces after arrests in anti-junta protests, raising fears that rights recently won under democratic rule are now being rolled back under the military regime, sources in…

North Korea has launched an investigation into gossip about the health of the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, after he appeared on state media looking thinner after a lengthy absence, sources in the country told RFA.
Kim resurfaced in public this month a…