Story Archive
2015-09-30
Only seven of 19 armed ethnic groups agree to sign a final nationwide cease-fire agreement with the government.
2015-09-30
A Cambodia-based rights group is being denied access to opposition figures held at a prison in Phnom Penh.
2015-09-29
Soldiers move against villages to add property to a retired veterans' commune.
2015-09-29
The police chief of Siem Reap province says the 26-year-old has confessed to making threats on social media.
2015-09-28
They accuse companies, the government and military of encroaching upon their land.
2015-09-28
He touts the party as the force behind democratic change in the country.
2015-09-25
Critics say that Ma Ba Tha should not mix religion with politics in the run-up to the November elections.
2015-09-25
But some fear further government control over what people may choose to see.
2015-09-24
Many in affected areas are concerned more with rebuilding their lives than with the coming election, sources say.
2015-09-24
The government says change is already underway, but ‘will take time.’
2015-09-23
Rights groups and villagers say the Vietnamese-run mine is protected by local authorities.
2015-09-23
Many in rural areas are unaware of coming elections and don't know they can vote, the group says.
2015-09-22
They say the summons was meant to threaten challengers to a Vietnamese rubber company.
2015-09-22
Government troops and armed ethnic soldiers have suffered casualties.
2015-09-21
Her National League for Democracy says errors on voter lists could hurt the party’s chances of victory.
2015-09-21
They are up in arms because their factory is firing workers and pregnant women without cause.
2015-09-18
The sentence is the latest for the pair, who protested a police killing in December.
2015-09-18
Their problems have been complicated by suspicions that forestry officials are colluding with illegal loggers.
2015-09-17
Ashin Wirathu urges voters to look at policies, not parties, in November general elections.
2015-09-17
They say government troops are also committing rights abuses in the region.
2015-09-17
They say local authorities in Battambang province’s Rotanak Mondol district have taken the money they are due from a company building a dam on their land.
2015-09-17
Community members, including several local officials, have harvested timber in defiance of written pledges.
2015-09-16
Authorities could not control heavy water flows once the dam operators released the floodgates.
2015-09-15
Interior Ministry spokesman says anti-government protests were equally to blame for the killing.
2015-09-15
The Ministry of Interior has set a three-month deadline for them to leave or be deported back to Vietnam.
2015-09-15
Minister hopes land-locked region can enjoy peace dividend from ceasefire after decades of instability.
2015-09-14
The indigenous residents say the water is causing skin disease that has hit children hardest.
2015-09-14
The parties involved discussed developing a common framework for the talks after the signing of a nationwide peace accord.
2015-09-11
The attorneys say former military officers are largely unqualified to become judges.
2015-09-10
The democracy icon wants her National League for Democracy to win 100 percent of the vote in the upcoming elections.
