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Show of frustration at Egypt's courts
News, Associated Press, Published on 02/06/2016
» Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif decided she had had enough of Egypt's justice system.
Tense game of political brinksmanship
News, Associated Press, Published on 30/05/2016
» American ships and fighter jets manoeuvring across the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan represent the "new normal" in US-Pacific relations despite rising tensions with China and Moscow.
US demands answers over missing Lao activist Sombath
Associated Press, Published on 17/12/2015
» WASHINGTON -- The United States called for Laos to immediately resolve the case of prominent activist whose abduction three years ago sent a “chilling message” to civil society.
Wanted Cambodia opposition leader delays return
Associated Press, Published on 16/11/2015
» PHNOM PENH -- Wanted Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday delayed his return home from South Korea as tension comes to a head between his supporters and those of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Defiant Najib: I won't resign
Associated Press, Published on 31/08/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR - Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak poured scorn on a huge two-day rally that brought together tens of thousands of protesters demanding his resignation over a financial scandal.
HK lawmakers reject Beijing-backed election plan
Associated Press, Published on 18/06/2015
» HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong government's controversial, Beijing-backed election blueprint was defeated in the legislature Thursday but the crucial vote came to a confusing anticlimax as pro-establishment lawmakers walked out just before it began.
China 'steps up' anti-Western rhetoric
Associated Press, Published on 03/03/2015
» BEIJING — Western values are a "ticket to hell," a newspaper published by China's Communist Party said in a recent editorial that held up Ukraine and some Arab countries as examples of outside ideas causing turmoil.
Hun Sen: Dam won't start until 2018
Associated Press, Published on 24/02/2015
» PHNOM PENH — Construction of a massive dam in southwestern Cambodia will not start until at least 2018, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday, in an apparent effort to stop heavy opposition to the project which has focused criticism on him.
Myanmar students refuse to end protest
Associated Press, Published on 06/02/2015
» YANGON — University students from across Myanmar on Friday rejected a government warning that they stop protesting against a new education law that they say prohibits them from engaging in political activities and curbs academic freedom.
First Cambodia genocide trial aims to expose starvation, disease, executions
Associated Press, Published on 17/10/2014
» PHNOM PENH — The first trial on charges of genocide against Cambodia's brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime opened Friday with a prosecutor saying it will show that Cambodians were enslaved in inhumane conditions that led to the deaths of 1.7 million people from starvation, disease and execution.