Singapore criminalises AI-generated abuse images
AFP, Singapore
14 August 2026 Southeast Asia
Ex-Thai MP shoots dead official over money row
AFP, Bangkok
11 August 2026 Asia
Ex-Thai MP shoots dead local official over money row
AFP
10 August 2026 Southeast Asia
Thai teen kills 7 in rampage at home, school
AFP, Nonthaburi
8 August 2026 Asia
Thailand teen kills seven in home, school shooting
AFP, Nonthaburi
7 August 2026 Southeast Asia
North Korea fires short-range ballistic missile
Reuters, Seoul
7 August 2026 Asia

Malala suspects 'secretly acquitted'

Eight of the 10 men supposedly convicted and jailed for attempting to murder Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai were actually
5 June 2015

Chinese cruise ship lifted from river

The Eastern Star is upright once again, looking almost normal with its bottom resting on the water and its deck and cabins clear above it.
5 June 2015

Lawyers to seek Manas trial by military court

A team of lawyers representing key human-trafficking suspect Thai army officer Lt-General Manas Khongpaen is planning to make a legal
5 June 2015

Thai PM vows no escape for officials in probe

Thailand's junta leader yesterday said government officials involved in the illicit trade in migrants would not be spared and vowed to
5 June 2015

Suu Kyi to make first China trip next week

Myanmar's opposition leader and democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi will visit China for the first time next week, Beijing and her party
5 June 2015

Vietnam eyes Western jets to counter China

Vietnam is in talks with European and US contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it
5 June 2015

Quake strands 137 climbers on Malaysian peak

Malaysian authorities raced yesterday to try to reach 137 people, some of them injured, who were stranded atop the popular climbing
5 June 2015

Lanka PM faces no-confidence motion

Sri Lanka's opposition said yesterday it has filed a motion of no confidence in the country's new prime minister, a move likely to hasten
5 June 2015

Eight out of 10 Malala suspects 'secretly acquitted'

Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai have been acquitted.
5 June 2015

Hope fades for 400 missing

Rescuers yesterday started cutting through the hull of a capsized Chinese cruise ship, state media said, in a desperate effort to find
3 June 2015

Godzilla finally gets citizenship in Japan

Most residents of Tokyo's pulsing Shinjuku ward, home to the busiest railway station in the world, are of the Homo sapiens variety.
3 June 2015

Hollywood actor Matt Dillon visits Rohingya camp (video)

American actor Matt Dillon put a rare star-powered spotlight on Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims, visiting a camp for tens of thousands displaced by violence.
2 June 2015

Rocky road to normalcy for trafficking victims

Duong was 18 and looking forward to seeing a new place and meeting new people when she set out with her aunt Mai and Mai’s boyfriend Lap to see his parents in Vinh Phuc Province. For a Dao minority girl from the rural district of Yen Binh in Yen Bai Province, it was like traveling into another country, and she was excited.
2 June 2015

Buckling under international pressure, Thailand cracks down on human trafficking

On their way out of Thailand, several workers boarded fishery trawlers to go offshore for fishing in the Indonesian sea, but they returned as trafficked entities. The workers were rescued by Thai authorities and brought home on a Royal Thai Air Force C-130 aircraft.
2 June 2015

Kidnapped, turned into slaves of past

“My arms and legs were tied in such a way that it was impossible for me even to change sides without help,” said Jewel, who was abducted and held captive by human traffickers in November last year.
2 June 2015

How migrant workers become human trafficking victims in Taiwan

Strolling in narrow alleys near Taipei’s famous Huaxi Street Night Market, it is not difficult to spot lone girls here and there. It just takes a knowing look before they initiate an approach to solicit your business. Let her lead the way and you arrive at a brothel, where girls are called in one by one for your choosing.
2 June 2015

Gallant fight to win back husband

A young woman in Mymensingh stages hunger strike to win back her husband who refused to accept her as wife even after one and half years of their marriage.
2 June 2015

Work on motor vehicle deal may start in Jan

Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader expresses hopes that works for the Motor Vehicle Agreement among the four South Asian countries – Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Nepal – will begin next January.
2 June 2015

Migrant boat still being held off Myanmar coast

More than 700 migrants found packed aboard an overcrowded boat in the Andaman Sea were still being held offshore by Myanmar's navy
1 June 2015

Abe apologises for heckling lawmaker

Japan's parliamentary session opened yesterday with an unusual apology from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over his heckling.
1 June 2015