Story Archive
2009-03-31
U.S. health officials have found lead and arsenic in traditional Burmese medications used by refugee families. Are children back in Burma also affected?
2009-03-29
Five ex-leaders of the Khmer Rouge go on trial, and Cambodia's youth get a chance to learn the truth about an era kept secret for the last 30 years.
2009-03-24
A leading Burmese labor activist isn't getting the care she needs in prison for a heart ailment.
2009-03-18
A leader of the 2007 Saffron Revolution is still fighting back from a remote prison in northern Burma.
2009-03-18
A Burmese dissident's wife calls on prison authorities to treat her husband's eyesight before he goes blind.
2009-03-17
Jailers in the central Burmese city of Meiktila face new allegations of abusing political detainees.
2009-03-16
A U.N. investigator calls on Burma's military government to make major reforms ahead of planned elections.
2009-03-13
A desperate ethnic minority group in Burma gets more help from the U.N.'s refugee agency.
2009-02-27
Health groups call for a probe into abuses by Burma’s junta during 2008 cyclone relief efforts.
2009-02-26
A Burmese journalist is honored for bravery but may not have heard about it in prison.
2009-02-24
A Burmese dissident freed after serving more than 18 years in jail says he and many others outside the prison walls are now struggling to survive.
2009-02-19
Lawyers clash over evidence at pretrial hearings in Cambodia's long-awaited Khmer Rouge trial.
2009-02-17
Three decades after the atrocities of Cambodia's "Killing Fields," the Khmer Rouge's lead torturer appears in court.
2009-02-17
A Burmese appeal court reduces two prison terms as a senior U.N. envoy visits.
2009-02-12
Times are likely to get tougher for Cambodia’s already impoverished workers.
2009-02-05
Burmese nationals and other foreigners in Chinese prisons face forced labor under brutal conditions.
2009-02-03
A Cambodian property developer forcefully evicts residents to develop a commercial site in the capital Phnom Penh. Talk of compensation ends in the midst of confusion over land rights.
2009-01-30
Burmese guards beat prisoners and deprived them of food after a riot following last year’s cyclone. A group of survivors was sentenced on Jan. 11 to additional terms of 2-12 years.
2009-01-29
Rangoon police tell reporters they seized 89 kilograms of heroin bound for Singapore.
2009-01-29
Burmese authorities made several cuts to U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration speech, in particular the sections dealing with authoritarian regimes.
2009-01-27
Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.
2009-01-23
Burmese groups condemn the lack of health care for political prisoners after the wife of a young activist suffers a miscarriage in jail.
2009-01-14
A Burmese labor activist in Malaysia describes how he was kidnapped and intimidated for speaking out against human trafficking.
2009-01-04
An American academic couple abandons a visit to Burma because one of them is blacklisted.
2009-01-01
Cambodia's highest court orders a retrial in the 2004 killing of a top labor leader.
