Southeast Asia

By AFP • Sep 01, 2020
Nearly 300 Rohingya migrants came ashore on Indonesia’s Sumatra island early Monday, authorities said, in one of the biggest such landings by the persecuted Myanmar minority in the Muslim-majority nation in years. The migrants, including more than a dozen children, were spotted at sea by locals who helped them…

By Sara Gomez Armas/EFE-EPA • Aug 27, 2020
A group of high-profile Rodrigo Duterte supporters have called for a "revolutionary government" to be established in the Philippines, led by the highly controversial strongman, causing unease among large sections of society

By Agence France-Presse • Aug 17, 2020
Thailand's economic growth contracted by 12.2% in the second quarter of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the steepest drop for the tourism-driven economy since the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis

By Oliver Slow • Aug 17, 2020
The history and legacy of revolutionary leader Saw Ba U Gyi is little-known outside, or inside, Myanmar. But 70 years since his death, the fight first forged by the beret-wearing father of the Karen nationalist movement continues on