Story Archive
2016-05-31
Hun Sen's ruling party votes to have the courts proceed with push to arrest opposition leader Kem Sokha.
2016-05-31
Yangon’s chief minister has pledged to stabilize the region’s power supply within six months to a year.
2016-05-31
The government group will work toward ending conflict in the state and helping its impoverished residents.
2016-05-27
The move comes in the aftermath of another deadly collapse of a jade-mining slag heap earlier this week.
2016-05-27
The Cambodia National Rescue Party calls for protests and a labor union threatens a strike of Kem Sokha is detained.
2016-05-27
The State Counselor is excluding political parties without parliamentary representatives from the key peace negotiation body.
2016-05-26
Authorities search for acting Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Kem Sokha as political tensions increase.
2016-05-26
The foreign affairs ministry says it’s working on granting full rights and protections to those who come back.
2016-05-25
The effort to get King Norodom Sihamoni to release the rights workers and an election official nabbed in the government's case against the opposition party leader runs into turbulence.
2016-05-25
The Burma Socialist Programme Party confiscated nearly 4,000 acres of land in Tant-Se township more than 35 years ago to use for a farm project.
2016-05-25
Rescuers have not resumed efforts to find survivors because they fear heavy rain will trigger the collapse of other slag heaps.
2016-05-24
The incident is the latest in a string of deadly accidents that have occurred during the past year in Hpakant, the center of the country’s jade-mining industry.
2016-05-23
The civilian-led government is working towards a resolution of its Rohingya issue, and believes the U.S. will drop remaining sanctions against the country.
2016-05-23
Campaigners launch new protests and vow to defy government orders banning postings on Facebook.
2016-05-20
Defense Minister Tea Banh says protesters need government permission to demonstrate, or else they will go to jail.
2016-05-20
They say the laborers from Sagaing region have violated laws pertaining to unlawful assembly and causing disorder.
2016-05-19
The exploited workforce at a Thai pineapple processing plant was largely made up of immigrants from Myanmar.
2016-05-19
The Cambodian People’s Party calls the request a divisive act that is tearing the country apart and exposing its internal affairs to outsiders.
2016-05-18
The former employees of a wood-processing factory were heading to Naypyidaw to take up their concerns with the government.
2016-05-18
The Cambodia National Rescue Party says the current situation violates the key tenets of a peace accord and the country’s commitment to ensure the protection of human rights.
2016-05-17
The court refuses to release opposition lawmaker Um Sam An for fear he will foment unrest as other Cambodian National Rescue Party members duck judicial proceedings.
2016-05-17
The move is intended to foster economic growth and political reform under the new pro-democracy government.
2016-05-16
Protesters take on the government arrests of activists jailed over what they see as trumped-up charges.
2016-05-16
The attacks by unknown assailants have destroyed heavy vehicles and buildings.
2016-05-16
The National Reconciliation and Peace Center will speed up preparations for a major peace conference.
2016-05-13
Six shells were fired at a Bangladeshi outpost from across the border, Bangladesh says.
2016-05-13
Monks and the members of a local nationalist group are calling on the government to denounce the U.S. embassy’s use of the word.
2016-05-13
Government spokesman fires back, saying U.N. can learn from Cambodia's experience.
2016-05-12
Media outlets are ordered to use the Khmer honorific for Prime Minister Hun Sen and other high-ranking office holders or face the consequences.
2016-05-11
The body of high-ranking Buddhist monks that oversees the clergy in the country has failed to stop Myaing Kyee Ngu’s activities.
