Days ahead of a visit to Myanmar as the new chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen switched tack and vowed to ensure the junta honors an agreement to end violence in the country nearly a year af…
Continue ReadingFactory managers in Myanmar are suppressing workers’ rights, with mandatory overtime and late payment of wages now routine following the Feb. 1, 2021, military coup that overthrew civilian rule in the country, sources say.
One worker at a foreign-owned…
At least six houses, including the home of the local chairman of the opposition political party, were set on fire Wednesday after military troops and associated militiamen raided a village in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region, prompting nearly 700 …
Continue ReadingWriter and taxi-driver Cheung Jing Ho and career politicians Yau Man-chun and Carmen Lau were all members of a District Council elected in a 2019 landslide victory for pro-democracy parties after months of mass protest and resistance to the loss of Hon…
Continue ReadingA Vietnamese soldier reported last year to have died in a fall in his barracks was instead beaten to death by his comrades, according to state media reports on Wednesday.
Nguyen Van Thien, born in 1998 and a resident of the central highlands province o…
A collapse of fishery stocks in the South China Sea due to overfishing and climate change could fuel serious tensions and even armed conflict, one of the authors of a new report on the topic has warned.
“The simmering conflict that we see in the South …
Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Xi’an have banned “negative news” on social media as many residents took to social media to complain about a citywide lockdown that has left many stranded at home without enough food or access to medical trea…
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