Southeast Asia

Five individuals are accused of "criminal negligence" for their alleged roles in the crowd crush, which took the lives of 135 spectators.

Since the late 1980s, the military has developed a "multi-faceted arms industrial complex" that has cushioned it from the impact of Western sanctions and arms embargoes.

How the Philippines became “ground zero” for the corrosive effects of social media.

In December, the staple vegetable was selling for more than the cost of chicken and beef.

Critics accuse President Joko Widodo of using emergency powers to circumvent a Constitutional Court's ruling on a controversial jobs creation law.

Myanmar’s army launched several airstrikes on an ethnic Chin armed group near the Indian border.

The discoveries, which include assets belonging to the Myanmar junta chief's adult son and daughter, suggest that military figures are using Thailand as a financial safe haven.

The move followed Brussels' passage of a law that could severely restrict palm oil imports to the European bloc.

Among the challenges facing Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and her team will be how to respond to the junta's planned sham elections.

The leader acknowledged 12 episodes of gross human rights violations that occurred between the 1960s and the early 2000s.

Despite his party's nearly unchallenged dominance, Hun Sen is bent on preventing the emergence of a political alternative.

There has been a general breakdown of law and order in the two years since the coup, as the military junta prioritizes the pursuit of political opponents.