In Southern Thailand, 16 Dead and No Peace in Sight
Why the military is unlikely to resolve southern Thailand’s long-running insurgency
Why the military is unlikely to resolve southern Thailand’s long-running insurgency
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has styled himself a reformer, but his government’s prosecution of protesters shows he still has a long way to go.
In a much anticipated ruling that struck a chord of moderation in Thailand’s contentious battle over free speech, a Thai court on Wednesday convicted an Internet webmaster accused of violating the country’s lèse-majesté laws, …
When Amporn Tangnoppakhun, a 61-year-old retired truck driver and grandfather was last year convicted of defaming the country’s constitutional monarchy and sentenced to 20 years in prison, even some who revere Thailand’s …
Burma’s central bank has set a new value on the national currency to reflect what it’s actually worth. But much more needs to be done to fix the country’s broken economy
A day after a series of blasts rocked Thailand’s capital, the country’s leaders feverishly sought to dispel any notion the incident was part of a terrorist plot. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise: police discovered …
He went from protesting on the streets of Rangoon in 1988, to a guerrilla camp on the Thai-Burma border, to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Now, Aung Naing Oo, a policy analyst, peace advocate and …
A man with blood on his hands is hard to ignore, even for Thailand’s police, whose reputation for diligence and crime busting is something less than sterling. So when two Bangkok cops spotted a man on a street last Saturday …