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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.

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) launches daily protests to push for a re-election. Photo: RFA/Khmer Service

About 200 villagers from Stung Treng province affected by a Chinese hydrodam protest on Friday, Feb. 28. Villagers asked the government to halt the project ...

On Jan. 27, authorities in Phnom Penh engaged with hundreds of supporters of Mam Sonando’s Beehive Radio as they protested in front of the Ministry of ...

Newly pardoned Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy has arrived home after four years in exile, returning ahead of national elections to help his party's bid ...

In this video—never before released publicly—Muriel Southerland remembers life in Beijing during the historic events of May and June 1989.

The two men, both 21, began work at a Chinese-owned farm in southern Laos in July, and left after receiving no pay in September.

Defendants have been prevented from seeing case files, with some saying they have been denied access to legal representation in the closed-door hearing.

Kurbanjan Abdukerim had lost more than 100 pounds while detained over a three-year period.

The timber, harvested illegally years ago and hidden in the forest, is being mixed with timber from trees felled in a 2018 flood and dam disaster, sources say.

All six were relatives of Kurbanjan Abdukerim, who died last week after being released from detention.