Story Archive
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.
