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On March 26, a massive fire destroyed the largest market in the Lao capital Vientiane, a lively all-day place for buying food and other wares called Thong Khan ...

Larung Gar, one of the world’s largest centers for the study of Tibetan Buddhism, is under threat from Chinese authorities. This visual guide tracks the ...

Seven bodies are found in two shallow graves in a village outside of Lashio in Shan State.

The trove of secret cables, known as the Xinjiang Papers, call for an “all-out ‘struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism.’”

Villagers refusing to leave their homes for the expansion of the Chinese-backed Letpadaung copper mine in northwestern Myanmar remained in a tense standoff ...

This series of photographs of Lower Sesan II Hydropower Dam in Cambodia’s Stung Treng province were taken on July 14, 2017—the day before its first test run. ...

A report by the Mekong River Commission found that the river would lose 900,000 tons of fish biomass by 2040.

MyWelfare gives food, clothes and toys to some 500 Rohingya Muslim refugees.

The Mekong River basin currently provides 1,600 megawatts of electricity and has potential for 30,000 megawatts,. But is the cost of modernization too high?

A planned dam at Xayaburi on the Mekong in Laos has become central to a debate about the river's future. Laos already has seven dams in operation on its river ...

The Mekong River is the world’s most productive fishery – supplying critical food security for the region. But experts cite declining animal protein and edible ...

More than 50 activists gathered in front of the U.S embassy in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, March 17 to request the intervention of First Lady Michelle Obama to ...

China's stability-focused leaders seek to address the demands of 230 million migrant workers as the nation's parliament convenes this week.

Uyghur Muslims complain of pervasive ethnic discrimination, religious repression, and cultural suppression in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...

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 ...

Police in Myanmar beat students, monks and journalists, and detained more than 100 people in Bago region’s Letpadan while dispersing demonstrators who had ...

Some 30 million voters headed to the polls on Nov. 8, 2015 for elections seen as a test of whether the military's grip on power will loosen, allowing the ...

Successful, free and fair elections on Nov. 8 will show whether democratic reforms gradually introduced since 2011 are on track.

Thousands of Myanmar's nationalist monks and their supporters prayed, clapped and held speeches at a large rally in Yangon on October 4, 2015, in a show of the ...

Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos began celebrating their annual days-long water festival, known as Thingyan in Burmese, on Monday April 13, marking the new year ...

The Newseum—a new addition to Washington D.C.’s array of museums—highlights the importance of unrestricted media for a democracy. But the Newseum’s director ...

The town of Dandong at the Chinese North Korean border offers a fascinating glimpse into the way two communist nations have taken widely different paths to ...

Seventy years after North Korean founder Kim Il Sung (1912-94) launched the June 25, 1950 surprise attack on South Korea that sparked the Korean War, Kim’s ...

North Korea said its rocket launch on April 5, 2009 was a success while the US military disputes the reclusive nation's claims it had launched a satellite into ...

In an interview with Yahoo! News, South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak pledges to work for Korean reunification. Lee denies that relations between the two ...

With the Olympic torch passing through this prickly city on April 9, thousands of protesters showed up in a bid to follow on Paris and London demonstrations ...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reports an increasing flow of opium and illicit drugs throughout the Southeast Asian region.

Newly freed U Tin Oo calls for the release of opposition party leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Tens of thousands of Cambodians turned out for opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party-led demonstrations in the capital Phnom Penh on Sunday to challenge ...

One woman is injured and a man detained after police clash with islanders staging a sit-in in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang.