World Apr 24 U.S. launches sweeping crackdown on Southeast Asia cyberscams and sanctions Cambodian senator U.S. officials have announced a sweeping crackdown on Southeast Asian cyberscam operations as part of what U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro characterized Friday as a “new theater of war” launched by the Trump administration against Chinese transnational organized crime.
World Apr 17 Former President Win Myint freed in broad Myanmar prisoner amnesty State-run media reported the amnesty on Friday, marking the traditional New Year.
World Dec 13 Fighting rages on Thailand-Cambodia border despite Trump's claimed ceasefire Fighting raged Saturday morning along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, even after U.S. President Donald Trump, acting as a mediator, declared that he had won agreement from both countries for a new ceasefire.
World Oct 08 Myanmar's military strikes village in glider raid, killing at least 24 people including children The Monday night attack was carried out by a motorized paraglider, and targeted a village in the country's central Sagaing region that was celebrating a Buddhist festival that included a rally calling for the release of political prisoners held by…
World Aug 29 Thai court ends prime minister's term over compromising phone call with Cambodian leader Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, ruling that she violated ethics rules in a phone call with a high-ranking Cambodian official.
World Jul 17 Myanmar troops recapture strategic town from rebel forces State media in Myanmar say the Southeast Asian nation's military government has recaptured a strategic gateway town after nearly a year of effort.
World Apr 28 Survivors still desperate for humanitarian aid a month after Myanmar's deadly quake The humanitarian needs of hundreds of thousands of survivors remain desperately pressing a month after Myanmar’s deadly earthquake, compounded by airstrikes that the military government is reportedly carrying out despite ceasefires.
World Mar 30 5.1 magnitude aftershock rattles Myanmar as residents struggle to clear rubble The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar's second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after a massive earthquake struck that killed…
World Mar 29 Myanmar's earthquake death toll soars over 1,600 as resistance announces partial ceasefire Myanmar’s ruling military said Saturday on state television that the confirmed death toll from a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake rose to 1,644, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed when it struck near the…
World Aug 28 Myanmar military court sentences journalist to life in prison, editor says The editor of an independent online news service in Myanmar says a military court has given a life prison sentence to one of its journalists and sentenced another to 20 years after convicting them under a counterterrorism law.