Story Archive
2009-06-22
No longer on a U.S. blacklist, Cambodia could see bilateral trade ties expand.
2009-06-18
North Korea and Burma may have bartered goods for tunnel engineering.
2009-06-16
Hard times are abetting the massive global slave trade, according to a new U.S. report on human trafficking.
2009-06-09
Women and children belonging to the Karen ethnic insurgent group flee a Burmese military assault in the largest exodus in years.
2009-06-02
Poor women die in childbirth every day in Cambodia, but who's to blame?
2009-05-29
Bangladesh prods Burma over its treatment of a Muslim minority group.
2009-05-26
The U.S. commander in chief makes a blunt appeal to Burma's ruling junta: Let her go.
2009-05-20
After an international outcry, Burma's ruling generals let diplomats and a handful of reporters into a high-profile trial.
2009-05-18
The trial has begun for a pro-democracy leader in Burma accused of violating the terms of her house arrest, amid calls for her release by local activists and global leaders.
2009-05-14
Burma's opposition leader, on trial for breaking the terms of her house arrest, has denied any wrongdoing, amid an international outcry over her prosecution.
2009-05-11
U.S. officials call for medical access to a Burmese opposition leader who is ill and under house arrest.
2009-05-07
In the second installment of an interview, a Burmese migrant describes abuses suffered by himself and other Burmese at the hands of a human trafficking gang.
2009-04-29
A Burmese man describes how he was forced to beat other illegal workers by a Malaysian trafficking gang to buy his own freedom.
2009-04-24
A new report prompts Malaysia to investigate persistent allegations that Burmese migrants have suffered gravely, while traffickers act with impunity.
2009-04-22
The Burmese junta tortures 'a lot' of its critics, says a senior U.N. official, who also says he expects human rights monitoring to increase.
