ASEAN

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Police are interrogating six people suspected of human trafficking after Bangladeshi guards separately rescued nearly 50 Rohingya refugees from boats...

YANGON — The wives of two Myanmar reporters for the Reuters news agency sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for possessing state secrets said Tuesday...

BANGKOK (AP) — A boat carrying minority Rohingya migrants from Myanmar has capsized in the Bay of Bengal, leaving at least 17 people dead...

Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy

MANADO, Indonesia — A six-nation summit co-hosted by Indonesia and Australia agreed Saturday to set up a forum to strengthen cooperation between intelligence services to counter extremist threats...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Myanmar of engaging in "Buddhist terror" against the minority Muslim Rohingya population. In a speech...

BANGKOK — Myanmar's government on Tuesday rejected two reports presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council that concluded it committed extreme human rights violations, probably amounting to crimes under international law, in its repression of several minority groups.

YANGON — Myanmar's government should expedite restitution for past illegal confiscations of land, an international human rights group said Tuesday, detailing how previous land...

PHNON PENH — A veteran Cambodian politician and his son on Wednesday became the first among 118 opposition members banned from politics for five...

KRISTEN GELINEAU reported from TEKNAF, Bangladesh The wind had whipped the waves to nearly three times the woman's height when her panicked voice crackled over...