Tourists Enjoy Thai Beaches Unaware of Trafficking Camps Just a Boat Ride Away
Near the glitzy resorts of Phuket, local officials collude in the horrific trafficking of Rohingya refugees from western Burma
Near the glitzy resorts of Phuket, local officials collude in the horrific trafficking of Rohingya refugees from western Burma
Workers brandishing sticks, rocks and petrol-bombs clash with police in Phnom Penh
New Year rally presses claims for a directly elected leader and greater autonomy from Beijing
Thirty-year-old despot clearly refers to the Dec. 12 execution of influential uncle Jang Song Thaek in New Year message to the people
Former Soviet state becomes 18th nation to use the troubled European currency
Huge fund for “fighting terrorism” announced after the funeral of Mohamad Chatah, a senior Sunni politician killed in Beirut on Friday
Explosion in Volgograd claims at least 14 lives and comes a day after 17 people were killed in a suicide bombing at the city’s central station
Mohammed Chatah, a Sunni former minister and ambassador to U.S., was reportedly killed in the attack just a few hundred meters from the government headquarters and parliament in Lebanese capital
Controversial decision by prefecture governor Hirokazu Nakaima comes despite 17 years of protests over safety and environmental concerns
Around 100,000 people currently inhabit ramshackle displacement camps in freezing northernmost Burma, victims of a two-and-a-half-year struggle between ethnic rebels and central government
Despite the best efforts of NGOs, around 500 slave girls remain in Nepal — and next month a concerted effort is being made to trace and rescue them
The present protests probably won’t lead to a coup, and for a country that’s seen dozens of coups and military-led governments in the past, that’s quite something
Violence deemed a reflection of heightened tensions between the state and an exploited immigrant labor force