Thailand

Myanmar’s democratic struggle at stake in Thailand’s election
Myanmar people in Thailand hope a new government in Bangkok will take a tougher line on the coup leaders in Yangon.
Published On 21 Mar 2023
Thailand dissolves parliament for May national election
The election would be the second since the 2014 coup and the first since youth-led pro-democracy protests in 2020
Published On 20 Mar 2023
Rubber duck calendar lands Thai man in jail for insult to monarch
Court ruled the desk calendar contained pictures of yellow rubber ducks that mocked Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
Published On 8 Mar 2023
Southeast Asia the ‘new China’ for supply chains: business group
ASEAN Business Advisory Council chairperson Arsjad Rasjid says region should be ‘supply chain of the world’.
Published On 7 Mar 2023

A low-intensity but bloody battle is being fought to contain the flow of drugs from Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’.

The controversial theory of solar geoengineering is at the centre of a growing body of climate research in Asia.

Russians are buying up property in Southeast Asian country to avoid conscription and the economic ravages of war.

The revival of opium production in the Golden Triangle comes on top of a booming synthetic drug industry.

Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy grows 1.4 percent in last quarter of 2022 amid hopes for tourism-led recovery.

UN secretary general warns that low-lying communities and entire countries could disappear under rising sea levels.

Rights group says nearly 300 criminal cases filed against defendants who were children at the time of their arrests.

Next month’s meeting is focused on maritime security and will include exercises to tackle smuggling.

Opium poppy was cultivated on more than 40,000 hectares in Myanmar last year, a 33 percent increase compared with 2021.

Large hauls of crystal meth were smuggled inside tea and coffee packages and hidden in secret compartments of vehicles.

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