Debt owed by Vietnam to China for construction of a rail line in the capital Hanoi is now due for repayment, but the project remains behind schedule and trains are still unable to run, government sources say.
Work began in October 2011 on the Cat Linh-…

Myanmar’s junta-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC) has announced plans to change the country’s election rules from a “winner-takes-all” model to one of proportional representation (PR), drawing criticism from observers who say the military is ma…

Police suspect that the people who killed a Rohingya leader and six refugees in separate attacks at camps in southeastern Bangladesh belong to the same group, authorities said Monday but declined to name it, although victims’ relatives blamed Rohingya …

A prominent Myanmar political activist is in critical condition after enduring torture at the hands of junta forces during his arrest over the weekend, his family told RFA.
Kyaw Min Yu, better known by his alias Ko Jimmy, had been a staunch opponent of…

Supporters of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti marked his 52nd birthday Monday with calls for his release from a life sentence for “separatism” he received for his advocacy work in northwest China’s Xinjiang region.
An economist at the Central Univer…

ASEAN begins a summit this week amid uncertainty over Myanmar’s participation after the regional bloc barred the Burmese junta chief from attending and Naypyidaw threatened to skip the meeting.
Myanmar’s military government said Monday that it had not …