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Jamila Begum, 35, cries in 2017 when talking about how members of Myanmar's armed forces accused of massacring civilians in her village Maung Nu, in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Photo: Wong Maye-E / Associated Press

UN Investigator: Genocide Still Taking Place in Myanmar

UNITED NATIONS — Genocide is still taking place against Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has no interest...
Singapore Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen greets Japan Defense Ministe Takeshi Iwaya at the ASEAN and Japanese Defense Ministers' Informal Meeting at the 12th ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting in Singapore on Saturday. Photo: Don Wong / Associated Press

Japan Deepens Southeast Asian Ties With Airmen Program

SINGAPORE — Japan's defense minister says he plans to start a program for professional airmen to strengthen ties between his country and Southeast Asia.
Defense Ministers from left to right, Brunei's Second Minister, Brunei, Halbi Nin Haji Mohd Yusof, Cambodia's Samdech Pichey Sena Tea Banh, Indonesia's General Ryamizard Ryacudu, Laos' Lieutenant-General Chansamone Chanyalath, Malaysia's Haji Mohamad Bin Sabu, Singapore's Ng Eng Hen, Thai General Prawit Wongsuwan, Myanmar's Lieutenant-General Sein Win, Philippines' Delfin N. Lorenzana, Vietnam's General Ngo Xuan Lich and ASEAN Deputy Secretary General Hoang Anh Tuan during a group photo for the ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting on Friday in Singapore. Photo: Don Wong / Associated Press

Southeast Asian Navies to Hold Drills With China Next Week

SINGAPORE — Southeast Asian navies are heading to their first joint exercises with China in its southern waters next week, and defense officials agreed...
An undated photo of a sculpture on Langkawi island, Malaysia. Photo: Max Pixel

British Woman Held in Malaysia Accused of Killing Husband

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian police said Friday that a British woman has been detained on the resort island of Langkawi for allegedly stabbing her...
United Malays National Organization's (UMNO) Pexresident Ahmad Zahid Hamidi waves as he walks into courtroom Friday at Kuala Lumpur High Court in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: Yam G-Jun / Associated Press

Malaysia Ex-Deputy PM Charged With Graft, Money Laundering

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's former deputy prime minister has been charged with abuse of power, corruption and money laundering involving millions of dollars in...
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Exiled Vietnamese Blogger: I’m Not Alone Advocating Freedom

HOUSTON — A prominent blogger freed from prison in Vietnam on condition that she live in exile in the United States says she is...
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, center, a prominent Vietnamese blogger, stands trial in 2017 in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, Vietnam. Photo: Tien Minh / Associated Press

Vietnam Frees Popular Blogger on Condition She Leave for US

HANOI — Vietnam has freed a well-known blogger after two years in prison on the condition that she leave for the United States. Nguyen Ngoc...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, right, shakes hands with Vietnam's Air Force Deputy Commander Gen. Bui Anh Chung as he visits Bien Hoa airbase, where the U.S. army stored the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, in Bien Hoa city, Wednesday outside Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Photo: Associated Press

US Defense Secretary Sees the Enduring Costs of Vietnam War

BIEN HOA, Vietnam — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is getting a firsthand look at the enduring costs of fighting the Vietnam War. Mattis visited...
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Vietnamese counterpart Ngo Xuan Lich, left, review an honor guard in January in Hanoi, Vietnam. Photo: Tran Van Minh / Associated Press

Mattis Trip to Vietnam Aimed at Countering China’s Influence

WASHINGTON — By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is signaling how intensively the Trump administration is...
Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim speaks before a court hearing at Federal Court in September in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Photo: Yam G-Jun / Associated Press

Malaysian PM-in-Waiting Anwar Takes Oath as Lawmaker

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian Prime Minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim has taken his oath as a lawmaker, marking his return to active politics three years after...

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