Story Archive
2016-12-22
The break in the penstock isn’t the first, raising questions about the dam’s construction.
2016-12-20
Infographic data on the corruption in the Yunnan Kunming Fanya Nonferrous Metal Exchange, or Fanya, the first exchange platform for non-ferrous metal in China.
2016-12-01
The system is part of a 2014 election reform deal between the CPP and opposition CNRP that ended almost a year of deadlock following the disputed 2013 ballot.
2016-10-11
On Monday Oct 10, 2016, Doun Penh district security forces attacked the demonstrators who carried lotus flowers, banged drums, waived the national flag and unfurled banners demanding a fair solution to a land-grab dispute.
2016-07-18
Kem Ley is praised as a fearless champion of Cambodians facing corruption and unaccountable government.
2016-07-10
Kem Ley, 46, researcher and leader of the advocacy group Khmer for Khmer was shot twice at a gas station in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on July 10, 2016.
2016-06-30
Seven bodies are found in two shallow graves in a village outside of Lashio in Shan State.
2016-06-23
MyWelfare gives food, clothes and toys to some 500 Rohingya Muslim refugees.
2016-03-30
On March 30, an historic transfer of presidential power took place in the Myanmar capital, Naypyidaw. Htin Kyaw, a close aide to democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, was sworn in as Myanmar's president.
2016-03-22
Thousands of Tibetans worldwide cast ballots on March 20, choosing members of parliament and a Sikyong, the top leader responsible for political and diplomatic decisions for the Dharamsala, India-based government-in-exile known as the Central Tibetan Administration.
2016-02-04
Myanmar’s first freely elected parliament went into session on Feb. 1, but challenges remain following decades of repressive military rule.
2016-02-02
Due to low market prices for their harvested salt, the owners of small sea salt farms in Cambodia now find themselves unable to pay back loans taken out from their banks. And this is forcing them to sell their fields to larger firms.
2016-01-19
In 2011, President Thein Sein’s government persuaded 16 major nonstate armed groups to come together for peace negotiations, but only eight of those groups signed a cease-fire agreement last October.