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Myanmar slaps tax on migrant workers’ earnings
Published on 28/09/2023
» The military government of Myanmar has ordered migrant workers to pay tax of at least 10% on income earned abroad, just weeks after telling them to remit 25% of their earnings at money-losing exchange rates, according to local reports.
Hun Manet: Cambodia's new prime minister
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» PHNOM PENH - Hun Manet has an economics degree from England and graduated from the US military academy West Point, but there are few expectations he will uphold Western liberal ideals when he succeeds his father as Cambodia's prime minister.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi moved from prison
AFP, Published on 28/07/2023
» NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted in a 2021 military coup, has been moved from prison to a government building, an official from her party said Friday.
UN: Asean must hold Myanmar junta accountable
Published on 21/06/2023
» JAKARTA: Southeast Asian neighbours of conflict-riven Myanmar must consider imposing measures to hold its military rulers accountable, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday, adding the bloc is “deadlocked” over how to resolve the ongoing crisis.
Shot Lao activist confirmed to be still alive
Published on 04/05/2023
» A young Lao political activist who was shot in Vientiane is still alive, it has been revealed, after his family apparently falsely reported him dead out of fear of further reprisals.
Hun Sen's son to stand in July election
Published on 01/04/2023
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party has nominated his eldest son to be a candidate in the general election in July, a document showed on Saturday.
Myanmar junta prepares for poll, raising fears of more bloodshed
AFP, Published on 31/01/2023
» Two years after a coup snuffed out Myanmar's short-lived democratic experiment, the country's military is planning elections that analysts warn could spark further bloodshed as opposition to junta rule rages on.
Nate Thayer, who interviewed Pol Pot, dead at 62
AFP, Published on 05/01/2023
» Nate Thayer, the larger-than-life American freelance journalist who scored a massive scoop with his 1997 interview with Pol Pot, the genocidal leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, has died at 62, his family said Wednesday.
Huge fire in Poipet hotel-casino
Published on 29/12/2022
» At least 19 people have been reported killed and up to 30 were still missing on Thursday night after a fire broke out at a Cambodian casino-hotel complex in the border town of Poipet.
Suu Kyi to hear final rulings soon
Published on 24/12/2022
» A junta court in Myanmar could hand down the final rulings in the 18-month trial of Aung San Suu Kyi next week, closing the latest chapter in the military’s decades-long battle with the democracy figurehead.