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Cambodia Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 27.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 14, 2026
Cambodia to keep up crackdown on scam centers after arrest of alleged mastermind
The arrest of Chen Zhi and his extradition to China was “not the end” of the Southeast Asian nation’s battle to stamp out transborder crimes, its foreign minister said.
A woman checks her phone on a hill in Tehran on Oct. 2, 2025. Iran was plunged into a nationwide internet blackout on Jan. 8.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 14, 2026
The countries wielding internet blackouts to muzzle dissent
Iran’s move to cut internet access during ongoing mass protests, along with Uganda’s Tuesday ahead of controversial elections, are just the latest examples of the tactic.
General view taken at the start of the first hearing at the International Court of Justice in which Myanmar is accused of committing genocide against the country’s Muslim minority, the Rohingya, in The Hague on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 14, 2026
ICJ hears gruesome violence against Rohingya in Myanmar genocide case
The accusations say that Myanmar soldiers rampaged door-to-door, systematically killing, raping and burning Rohingya men, women and children.
Members of the Union Election commission prepare to count ballots after the polls closed at a polling station during the second phase of Myanmar’s general election in Yangon on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 13, 2026
Pacts, patronage and fear: How Myanmar’s junta chief holds on to power
His name isn’t on the ballet and he doesn’t appear on campaign posters, but Min Aung Hlaing looms large over the country’s general election.
Rohingya refugees cross the border into Bangladesh in 2017. The charge that Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya Muslims went before the World Court on Monday, for three weeks of argument and testimony, in the first case of its kind, with implications for other genocide cases like the one pending against Israel.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 13, 2026
Myanmar made Rohingya lives a nightmare, Gambia says in genocide case
Gambia, a predominantly Muslim West African country, filed the case at the International Court of Justice in ‌2019, accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya.
Rohingya refugees wait outside a distribution center after collecting relief materials at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangledesh, on Dec. 20.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 12, 2026
In grim camps, Rohingya hope U.N. genocide hearing can bring justice
Hope is a fragile but persistent force in Bangladesh’s Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar, where more than a million refugees forced to flee Myanmar live in squalid conditions.
A woman holds a placard with a portrait of Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally protesting against Myanmar's general election staged by the country's military government, outside the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo on Dec. 28.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 11, 2026
Sequestered Suu Kyi overshadows military-run Myanmar election
The second of the three-phase election began Sunday, with Suu Kyi’s constituency of Kawhmu outside Yangon being contested by parties cleared to run in the heavily restricted poll.
Guards escort accused scam boss Chen Zhi off a China Southern plane in Beijing in this undated image released on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 9, 2026
‘Sever the chain’: Scam tycoons in China’s crosshairs
China is moving against the scammers making fortunes in Southeast Asia, driven by mounting public pressure and Beijing’s desire to keep control of judicial processes, analysts say.
Ali Hossain, who lost his leg to a landmine while collecting firewood, leans on a crutch as he walks home at the Bangladesh-Myanmar frontier village of Naikhongchhari in Bandarban district Dec. 19.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 6, 2026
Landmines destroy limbs and lives on Bangladesh-Myanmar border
In the dense hill forests along Bangladesh’s border with war-torn Myanmar, villagers are losing limbs to landmines, casualties of a conflict not of their making.
Relatives wait for prisoners to be released during an annual amnesty to mark Myanmar's independence day outside Insein prison in Yangon on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 4, 2026
Myanmar junta says to release over 6,000 prisoners in annual amnesty
The move came as a pro-military party took a decisive lead in the first phase of elections, winning 90% of the lower house seats, according to official results.
Rohingya refugees attend a rally organized by the United Council of Rohang at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Dec. 20.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Dec 29, 2025
Rohingya refugees hope new leaders can pave a path home
The refugees living in squalid camps in Bangladesh have elected a council, hoping it can improve conditions and revive efforts to secure their return to Myanmar.
Ma Yamin Htwe, 19, sells her hair at a wig-making shop near Yangon on Dec. 24.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 28, 2025
Myanmar’s election is derided as fake, but the nation’s suffering is all too real
The vote, the first since the 2021 coup, has been almost universally dismissed as political playacting.
Voters line up inside a polling station during the first phase of Myanmar's general election, in Yangon on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 28, 2025
Myanmar polls open amid civil war, with junta-backed party tipped to win
The election has been derided by ​critics as an exercise that is not free, fair or credible, ‍with anti-junta political ⁠parties not competing.
Campaign billboards in Pyin Oo Lwin, in Myanmar's Mandalay region, on Dec. 9. Analysts and diplomats say the aim of establishing a stable administration in the Southeast Asian nation is far-fetched ‍since the ⁠civil war is still raging.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 25, 2025
Myanmar junta’s shift from battlefield to ballots faces long odds
Analysts and diplomats say the aim of establishing a stable administration in the Southeast Asian nation is far-fetched ‍since the ⁠civil war is still raging.
An election billboard featuring Union Solidarity and Development Party Chairman Khin Yi in Lashio in Myanmar’s northern Shan state
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 23, 2025
Myanmar junta seeks legitimacy in election widely seen as flawed
The military’s tenuous control over the country, a raging civil war and a crackdown on political opponents have already cast the polls as a sham, according to most observers.
Rebels in Myanmar fighting against the junta clean their guns in Karen state, Myanmar, in March 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Dec 17, 2025
Human‑wave attacks and drones: How Myanmar’s junta is fighting back
Generals have been boosted by the backing of China, which has applied diplomatic and financial pressure on resistance groups to stop fighting.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with the leaders of Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia after the ceremonial signing of a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 26. Hostilities between the two countries have since resumed.  
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 16, 2025
White House 2025 Asia upheaval set to continue in 2026
Will the Trump administration learn from its counterproductive actions in Asia in 2025? It seems unlikely.
People look at a hospital damaged in a Myanmar military air strike that killed more than 30 people in Mrauk U, in the country's western Rakhine state, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 11, 2025
Myanmar junta air strike on hospital kills 31, aid worker says
The air strike comes ahead of elections slated for the end of December.
Shwe Kokko city — a casino, entertainment and tourism complex in Myanmar — seen from Thailand's Mae Sot District in February, after Thailand cut electricity, internet and fuel supplies to five border areas in Myanmar in an bid to curb scam centers
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 4, 2025
Thailand seizes millions in assets and issues arrest warrants in scams crackdown
Parts of Southeast Asia have become hubs for online fraud, with criminal networks earning billions from illegal compounds where trafficking victims are often forced to work.
Myanmar has long ranked among the world’s top opium poppy producers
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 3, 2025
Opium poppy farming hits 10-year high in war-torn Myanmar
The U.N. warned Myanmar’s cultivation has hit a decade-record level, with early indications that its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western markets.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Why is the yen so weak and what can Japan do about it?
Japan spent ¥11.7 trillion ($73 billion) between late April and late May to prop up the weak yen.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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