ASEAN

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's new government said it will abolish the death penalty for all crimes and halt all pending executions, a rare move...

SINGAPORE — A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer collided with a tanker early Monday in waters east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, and at least 10 sailors are missing.

The leader of Cambodia's now dissolved opposition party was released on bail Monday after being jailed for a year on a treason charge.

(Prachatai English)

BANGKOK — Former Association of Southeast Asian Nations Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan has died in Thailand. He was 68.

A veteran member of Cambodia's dissolved opposition party broke ranks with his colleagues on Wednesday and became the first to apply for a government-offered lifting of a ban on engaging in political activity.

YANGON — A BBC reporter in Myanmar has been jailed for three months with hard labor after being convicted of assaulting a police officer while covering a student protest, his lawyer said Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's anti-graft agency says the former leader of a timber-rich eastern state has been arrested and will face corruption charges as...

(The Isaan Record)

PALONG KHALI, Bangladesh — The scene has played out with heartbreaking regularity as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution in Myanmar and escaped to neighboring Bangladesh: terrified knots of men, women and children crossing the swollen Naf river and waiting along the border for permission to cross.