Story Archive
2021-05-25
The groups expressed concern that the junta will use the funds to maintain its “bloody crackdown.”
2021-05-25
Myanmar won’t go outside its law to repatriate refugees because country doesn’t recognize them as citizens, junta chief says.
2021-05-25
Both skippers get suspended one-year prison sentences.
2021-05-25
The fighting occurred days after the military killed three New People’s Army fighters.
2021-05-25
Agakhan Sharief brokered ceasefire between Islamic State-linked militants and military so he and others could save civilians.
2021-05-24
Before pandemic, Hanoi sent fishermen home within two months of their detention, Jakarta said.
2021-05-24
Metro train with commuters crashes head-on with one without passengers on the wrong track, Malaysian officials say.
2021-05-24
Junta chief says he’s not ready to implement road map reached at during Jakarta summit.
2021-05-24
A medical expert says people should not be concerned, noting no sign of human-to-human transmission.
2021-05-24
Relatives of the dead are too afraid to come forward to identify their loved ones, an NGO says.
2021-05-21
Jakarta joined North Korea, China, in saying “no” to annual U.N. debate on crimes against humanity.
2021-05-21
Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Southeast Asian counterparts praise truce between Israel and Hamas.
2021-05-21
Militants say slow reconstruction process is being used as “rallying point,” according to International Alert.
2021-05-20
Elsewhere in Asia, Indonesia’s large global share of tropical deforestation from 2013-2019 caused climate erosion, another report says.
2021-05-20
In May 2018, officials investigating corruption in the state fund found cash and items valued at up to $265 million.