SIHANOUKVILLE, CAMBODIA – Ochheu Teal Beach, long, sandy and narrow, is Cambodia’s nicest beach closest to the port city of Sihanoukville. On Friday afternoon, beachgoers included passengers who disembarked hours earlier from the Westerdam, the cruise ship welcomed by Cambodia …
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With a strong history of strife in Myanmar, Kayin State is not new to conflicts. Though Kayin has hosted displaced populations since the 1990s, the population continues to be displaced some as recent as 2018. In addition to land …
GENEVA – The U.N. refugee agency welcomes a ruling by the U.N. Human Rights Committee this past week that people fleeing climate-related and natural disasters have a valid claim for international protection.
The case in question concerns Ioane Teitiota, a …
JAKARTA / WASHINGTON – Indonesia is discussing the possible repatriation of 660 citizens with alleged links to terrorism � foreign fighters and dozens of their family members � who have been detained abroad.
Mahfud MD, the country’s coordinating minister for …
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Thailand’s Constitutional Court acquitted the country’s most vocal opposition party of sedition on Tuesday, sparing it an imminent death but setting the stage for its possible dissolution over a loan the party received in an alleged …
If ASEAN were forced to choose between China and the United States, a majority of respondents to a survey of residents of the Southeast Asian bloc would choose Uncle Sam, according to a Singaporean think-tank report published Thursday.
But the …