March 08, 2013
WASHINGTON--The United States is intensifying its aid work in Myanmar, winning more cooperation from the government in a country long estranged from Washington, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah said on March 7.
March 05, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Malaysian security forces using fighter jets attacked nearly 200 Filipinos occupying a Borneo seaside village on March 5 to end a bizarre three-week siege that turned into a security nightmare for both Malaysia and the Philippines.
March 05, 2013
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--Cambodian translators angry that they have gone without pay for three months stopped working at the U.N.-backed genocide trial of former Khmer Rogue leaders on March 4, a new setback for an international justice effort that has been hobbled by conflicts with the Cambodian government.
March 04, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Malaysia sent hundreds of soldiers to a Borneo state on March 4 to help neutralize armed Filipino intruders who have killed eight police officers in the country's bloodiest security emergency in years.
March 04, 2013
YANGON, Myanmar--In another sign of political reform and reconciliation in Myanmar, the country's biggest party led by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will hold its first-ever congress in the country's former capital this week.
March 03, 2013
LAHAD DATU, Malaysia--Gunmen have killed five policemen in Malaysia's Sabah state where members of an armed faction from the Philippines have been facing off with security forces as they stake an ancient claim to the remote corner of Borneo island.
March 02, 2013
HANOI, Vietnam--Vietnam's leaders sought to boost their flagging legitimacy by asking the public for suggestions on constitutional reform. What they got instead was rare open criticism of one-party rule, a fired journalist turned poster boy for dissent, and another lesson on how the Internet has changed the rules of governance.
February 28, 2013
MURMADI, India--India is in uproar over the brutal rape and murder of three young sisters just weeks after a high-profile case of gang rape in New Delhi left a college student dead and the country in shock.
February 28, 2013
Unicharm Corp. is pushing sales of its hygiene products by sending staff to India to educate young women about dealing with menstruation and establishing a factory with an all-female workforce in Saudi Arabia.
February 28, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR--Thailand's government agreed on Feb. 28 to start talks with a major Muslim rebel group, marking a breakthrough in efforts to end a worsening conflict in the country's south that has claimed over 5,000 lives since 2004.
February 27, 2013
NEW DELHI--Sri Lanka's security forces have used rape to torture and extract confessions from suspected Tamil separatists almost four years after the country's civil war ended, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Feb. 26.
February 26, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR--Voter approval of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his ruling coalition is falling ahead of an election he must call within weeks, according to an opinion poll released on Feb. 26, highlighting the tough task he faces despite a robust economy.
February 25, 2013
YANGON--Two banks owned by tycoons associated with Myanmar's former military regime will start to do business with U.S. companies and investors in the latest reward for the Southeast Asian country's rapid political transformation.
February 23, 2013
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam--Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy. They are scientists' prescription for a headache that has caused the tiny U.S. territory misery for more than 60 years: the brown tree snake.
February 23, 2013
SINGAPORE --Already one of the most densely populated countries in the world, tiny land scarce Singapore is projecting its population to swell by a third over the next two decades. To accommodate the influx, its planners envisage expanding upward, outward and downward.
February 22, 2013
HANOI--Vietnam has approved a broad plan to boost its economy to 2020, focusing on restructuring public investment, banks and state-owned enterprises while controlling inflation and maintaining growth.
February 21, 2013
LAWA YANG, Myanmar--Kneeling beside a line of freshly dug trenches carved like one long, open wound into a lush hillside, the rebel sergeant peered through dusty binoculars at all his troops had lost.
February 19, 2013
BEIJING--China said on Feb. 19 it has rejected the Philippines' attempt to seek international arbitration over conflicting claims to territory in the South China Sea.
February 19, 2013
SINGAPORE--Ong Hui Juan spent nearly four years working in a British bank in Singapore, but decided to leave last year to pursue her passion of working with youth - an unusual and surprising decision in the achievement-oriented city state.
February 19, 2013
JAKARTA, Indonesia--A judge being interviewed for a Supreme Court job jokes that women might enjoy rape. A local official takes a 17-year-old second wife, then quickly divorces her by text message.