On July 23, 2022, Myanmar’s military junta executed three activists and a former lawmaker for continuing to fight for democracy after the military ousted the country’s democratically elected government in the Feb. 1, 2021 coup.
Among them was veteran d…
More than a dozen civilians were killed by Myanmar junta forces, with some brutally tortured before being executed, during a six-hour raid on a village in northwestern Sagaing region on July 21, residents said on Monday.
In all, 14 people, including fo…
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. talked at length about protecting the Philippines’ sovereignty amid heightened territorial tensions with China in a speech to Congress on Monday about his first year in office.
Marcos said the Philippines would alwa…
France, the United Kingdom and Australia on Monday criticized Cambodia’s one-sided parliamentary election, while China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman congratulated Cambodia for the “smoothly held” vote.
Preliminary results from Sunday’s election show t…
Police in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have arrested activist Phan Tat Thanh, accusing him for criticizing the government’s response to “Chinese aggression” in the South China Sea, his father told Radio Free Asia.
Thanh, 37, also known as “Black Aaron,” …