A key part of the AUKUS security pact aiming to create a “seamless” defense industry across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States appears at risk after congressional Democrats raised doubts about Canberra’s ability to protect U.S. militar…

Three days after Cambodia’s highly controlled national election, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Wednesday he will step down and hand power to his eldest son, army chief Hun Manet. 
Hun Sen, 70, has ruled Cambodia since 1985, making him one of th…

Laos has released a Thailand-based rights activist whom authorities arrested in April when he returned to Laos to visit family, sources with knowledge of his case told Radio Free Asia.
Savang Phaleuth had been working in Thailand for years and was a me…

High levels of foreign owned debt and a lack of high-paying work means that Laos likely won’t be able to achieve two UN sustainable development goals – providing everyone with electricity and employment by the year 2030, government officials and analys…

Malaysia and the Philippines on Wednesday discussed giving fellow ASEAN states more latitude in pursuing individual and informal approaches for dealing with the post-coup crisis in Myanmar.
The question of how to handle the repressive and recalcitrant …

Authorities in the southwestern city of Chengdu step up security ahead of a visit by ruling Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping amid calls for ‘flash mob’ protests at the University Games.

Xi will attend the International University Sports Feder…

As Hong Kong continues to swelter through a July heatwave, the authorities have opened up heat shelters across the city for people needing to cool down to avoid heatstroke.

But for thousands of inmates in the city’s prisons – many of whom are there fo…