Myanmar’s jade mining center of Hpakant is a lawless township where the less fortunate gather to gamble on making it big, but with little oversight, the stakes are high and losing means being swallowed up by the earth at the digging pits.
Nearly 600 p…
U.S. President Joe Biden should require Vietnam to do more to protect human rights before forging closer ties between the two countries, as is expected during his visit to Hanoi next weekend, Vietnamese diaspora groups said.
Biden is scheduled to meet …
Human rights groups criticized the United Nations for failing to take concrete action against China for its repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, saying the international body has done little since releasing a damning report a year ago stating that Chines…
Prime Minister Hun Manet has promised to increase the minimum monthly wage for garment workers, but didn’t mention a specific dollar amount in two speeches this week.
The current minimum wage is US$200 – set by then-Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government …
Global aid for Rohingya, the displaced and oppressed stateless minority from Myanmar, has declined sharply this year as donor nations have shifted their priority to the war in Ukraine, humanitarian and human rights groups say.
From being “among the bes…