Month: May 2023

Another major land rights dispute is coming to a head on the site of a 2020 clash that left a popular local leader and three policemen dead in Vietnam’s Dong Tam. According…

Rice crops in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have taken a hit from flooding and conflict this year, casting a shadow on a mostly sunny outlook for Southeast Asia’s output of the key…

Chinese sportswear brand Li-Ning has apologized after some of its latest fashion clothing sparked public anger in China over a perceived resemblance to Japanese World War II military uniforms. The company, founded…

At least three Philippine lawmakers want to designate sea lanes between the country’s islands where foreign ships would be allowed to travel, amid the continued presence of Chinese vessels in Manila’s waters…

Vietnam’s top leader Nguyen Phu Trong will travel to China on Sunday to visit President Xi Jinping, the first foreign leader to do so since Xi’s re-election to a third five-year term…

Cambodia’s main opposition Candlelight Party on Friday called on authorities to stop trying to force local officials to publicly condemn Hun Sen’s exiled political rival Sam Rainsy. In a statement, the party…

Han Chinese migrant workers are streaming out of Lhasa after demanding permission to return to their homes amid a harsh COVID-19 lockdown in the Tibetan capital, creating snarled traffic jams as far…

Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Friday returned the passport of former Radio Free Asia Khmer news anchor Yeang Sothearin, opening the door to his visiting his father and sister – both of whom…

A pro-democracy publishing house in Thailand was approached by a Chinese businessman who wanted to pay it to shut down to boost his relationship with Beijing in the wake of the ruling…

Authorities in Shanghai on Friday ordered more than a million of its residents into lockdown and mass testing, amid reports that some 200 million people are currently under some form of pandemic-related…