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YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar authorities detained 173 ethnic Rohingya aboard a boat off the southern coast, authorities said on Tuesday, amid signs that more members of the Muslim minority group are making perilous sea voyages to escape persecution. The navy seized the vessel carrying the group, including 22 children, in Tanintharyi Division’s Kawthaung township on
VIENTIANE, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — Laos hopes to increase the quality of data both of local and foreign laborers in the country, as well as Lao laborers working abroad. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed for conducting a feasibility study on Tuesday in Lao capital Vientiane, local daily Vientiane Times reported on Thursday.
Rong Kluea Market is one of the most famous shopping destinations in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province, on the border with Cambodia. To get there, you used to take a train to the end of the line at Aranyaprathet station, and then catch a bus to the market. Today, the railway goes all the way to
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former pro-democracy symbol Aung San Suu Kyi takes center-stage Wednesday at the U.N.’s top court as she seeks to defend Myanmar’s armed forces against genocide allegations over its crackdown on the country’s Rohingya minority. Representing Myanmar as foreign minister before the International Court of Justice, Suu Kyi will lead
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) — Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, the world’s oldest prime minister, promised on Tuesday to hand over power to anointed successor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in spite of new sexual assault allegations against him. Mahathir, 94, told Reuters in an interview that he would not hand over before a summit of Asia-Pacific
THE HAGUE (Reuters) —The Gambia’s legal team described mass rapes, the burning of families in their homes and the killing of dozens of Muslim Rohingya children with knives as it set out its genocide case against Myanmar at the UN’s International Court of Justice on Tuesday. Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a
YANGON (Reuters) – The last time Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi traveled to western Europe, she was feted as the freshly elected civilian ruler of a fledgling democracy who had brought an end to half a century of military dictatorship. When the Nobel peace prize laureate returns next week, her first trip to the
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak took to the witness box for the first time on Tuesday to defend himself on criminal charges linked to a multibillion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). Najib is accused of illegally receiving 42 million ringgit ($10 million) from former 1MDB unit SRC
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad took the weekend off for a date with his wife Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali around the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, according to Bernama News. Several photographs that were uploaded on social media showed the 94-year-old leader driving a Proton car to the federal capital with his wife.
About 70 aftershocks were recorded after the 6.4ML earthquake struck Xayaboury province in the Laos PDR yesterday. The quake damaged 65 houses in the Chalerm Phrakiat district of Thailand’s northern province of Nan, the Meteorological Department reported today (Friday). Officials of Chalerm Phrakiat district said that cracks appeared on the walls most of the houses
Houses in many villages in the Hongsa district of Xayaboury province in the Laos PDR were damaged by two strong earthquakes this morning, according to the Vientiane Times. Xayaboury deputy governor said the quakes caused varying degrees of damage and tremors were felt in every district of the province, with the strongest in central Hongsa
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian lawmakers have shown their support for democracy in Cambodia, said Sam Rainsy, the acting president of the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP). The self-exiled politician, whose party is banned back home in Cambodia, said the support from Malaysian MPs was apparent when he and CNRP vice-president Mu Sochua were invited to
