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Slightly more than 7 million Cambodians, or nearly 90 percent of registered voters, turned out for commune council polls on June 4, 2017—a record turnout in a ...

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.

Thousands of Cambodian workers have fled Thailand since the military coup in Bangkok, and more people are crossing the border every day. Workers are returning ...

A May 2-16 campaign for local elections, to be held May 18, took off over the weekend in Cambodia in spite of heavy police and military presence, and a ban on ...

Cambodia’s political parties have wound down their campaigns ahead of July 28 elections.

Held as "a critical step in its development process," Myanmar launched its first census in three decades on March 30th. The process was due to end on April 10 ...

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi embarked on a four-day trip to Chin state and neighboring Sagaing division to explain to the people proposed amendments to ...

The people of Chin state uphold their Christian faith amid a battle against poverty and the departure of many of their youth.

Censors in China quickly halted state television's live broadcast of Barak Obama speech on January 21st local time when they heard references to communism and ...

A total of 6.1 million university students are expected to graduate from Chinese colleges and universities this year. But job prospects are increasingly ...

The Red Cross Society of China has provided its first-ever humanitarian assistance to ethnic Kachin refugees in neighboring Myanmar, sending more than U.S. ...

In a single day, the Shanghai index lost 8.5% and the world took note.

As world leaders and businessmen gather in Davos to discuss the economy, China is both a star -- and a source for concern. Is the country facing a bubble?

Chinese security forces conducted large-scale exercises in Tibet as Tibetans around the world marked the anniversary of a failed March 10, 1959 national ...

Supporters gather in the forest in southern Cambodia's Koh Kong province to remember environmentalist Chut Wutty.

At least 17 City Hall security guards and about a dozen supporters of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) are injured during a clash between ...

Ecological migrants are people who are forced to leave their homes due to various impacts of climate change (flooding, land degradation, extreme weather).

Two lawmakers from the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) were beaten outside Cambodia's parliament on Oct. 26, during a demonstration in ...

In recent years, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government has attacked critics, including activists, rights monitors, opposition lawmakers and the media.

An elite military unit is deployed to crack down on striking garment factory workers at a factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh on Jan. 2, 2014. Photos: ...

China's 60 years of Communist Rule: Chairman Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966 to purge the Communist Party and regain personal control of ...

DHARAMSALA, India: Tibetans pray for the long life of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and worry about a future without him.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader meets with President Obama and speaks to a policy research group and Washington-area Tibetans.