SINGAPORE] Beijing is selectively reviving big-ticket infrastructure projects in South-east Asia’s most aid-dependent nations ...

Police seized 100 kilos of meth hidden in a car on the Thai-Myanmar border. Border patrol officers intercepted an SUV smuggling the illegal drugs into Chiang Rai in northern Thailand on May 20. They ...

Recent months have seen an awakening of long-dormant maritime and territorial disputes between the two nations.

Vietnamese and Lao police cracked down on a major online gambling ring, seizing dozens of devices and detaining 29 suspects ...

Beijing plays both sides in Myanmar’s conflict, backing the junta publicly while quietly supporting armed groups to secure its strategic and economic interests.

By Deborah Castellano Lubov Leaders of Southeast Asian countries on Tuesday urged all parties in conflict-torn Myanmar to ...

THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR The government approved three new foreign direct investments (FDI) valued at RM155 million ...

In May 2024, Martha (not her real name), a former OFW from the UAE, traveled to Bangkok to work in a “communications company, ...

and cross-border smuggling.” Over the past five years, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia have become hosts to parasitic cyber scam operations of immense scale. Perpetrated mostly by Chinese criminal ...

China’s President, Xi Jinping, undertook a tour of Association of Southeast Asian (Asean) member countries in an effort to shore up his country’s relationships amidst rising tensions, ...

Unrest is rare in communist Laos but the country forms part of the Golden Triangle – covering the border areas with Myanmar and Thailand – that has been a hub for Southeast Asia’s lucrative ...