Southeast Asia

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

The Burmese junta, already known as one of the cruellest regimes in the world, has been stepping up its oppression of political opponents. Phil Thornton reports from the Thai-Burma border, where he speaks with exiled politicians, army deserters, displaced villagers and former political prisoners.

The Diplomat’s exclusive interview with Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Pushing the long grass aside, Phorn pointed to a marker stone. ‘The Chinese workers came and put this here,’ he said.

With their rich traditions and an increasingly global outlook, Thailand’s cultural industries have significant promise.

It was midday on the Thai-Burma border. The tropical sun beat down from a cloudless blue sky…

The multi-coloured protests that paralysed Bangkok at the end of last year garnered international media attention more due to tales of stranded tourists than the deep-rooted causes behind them.

A warm night on the Thai/Burmese border. A Grey Man operative checks his video equipment and heads into a cluster of 15 brothels.

In the past 12 months Burma’s military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SP DC), has been under intense international scrutiny.

At 66 years of age, Commander Richard Yoweni doesn’t think he is getting too old to keep battling Indonesia.

A bevy of Australian and other foreign mining companies moving into the poverty stricken but mineral-rich Philippines face a number of challenges, among them communist insurgents wielding extortion demands and hit and run raids.