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Asia's second cup competition complicated by geographic spread and standards of member leagues.

DALIAN, China -- Japanese-style hot springs or onsen are bubbling up across East and Southeast Asia as Japanese companies and others tout the wonders.

Former ASEAN secretary-general Rodolfo Severino Jr passes away on April 19, 2019, at the age of 82. Here's how I remember him.

The moment I spotted the AK-47, I realised this wasn't going to be your average five-star hotel excursion. My guide, Sowath, explained that the rifle slung over ...

At some point now or sooner than later, the claimants in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea will have to sit down and agree on a seismic and oil ...

Ex-California Gov. Jerry Brown granted more than 1000 pardons, several of them to Cambodian refugees facing deportation after criminal convictions.

50 percent of ASEAN countries performed poorly in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index.

Play Russian baccarat, Russian blackjack and more in Primorsky Krai Integrated Entertainment Zone outside Vladivostok. Hong Kong listed Summit Ascent runs ...

by Mao Pengfei, Nguon Sovan. PHNOM PENH, April 20 (Xinhua) -- China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has created tremendous opportunities for ...

The Investor South Korea's Financial Supervisory *Service* urged financial institutions based in Korea to foster a “long-lasting relationship” with Southeast Asian ...

English Analysis on World and 4 other countries about Disaster Management and Drought; published on 19 Apr 2019 by ASEAN and ESCAP.

Huawei's 5G technology is under fire in the West, but there is a region of the world where Washington's anti-China propaganda war was lost long ago: Southeast ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 20, 2019-- The "EOS Macau Summit 2019" was successfully held in Macau on Chinese Lantern Festival, 2019. More than 300 guests.

PHOTO: The Japan Times. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' new 88-passenger Mitsubishi Regional Jet is testing the skies just as rivals Embraer and Bombardier ...

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) have lodged a complaint after their national team were seeded in the lowest ranked pot for the men's football competition ...

Courtesy Story, Logistics Group Western Pacific. SINGAPORE – Commander, Task Force 73 announced the beginning of the 25th annual Cooperation Afloat ...

Indonesia pulled off a complex yet peaceful election across its vast and ethnically diverse island territory this week, cementing its place as a democratic.

The most fun you can ever have as a critic is watching a talented scribe take a great leap — in both thematic ambition and theatrical accomplishment.

FIFA.com takes a look at the 12 competing nations ahead of Round 1 AFC 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

The overview for Tiffany's whirlwind trip through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, including planning details and and outline of everything we did.

The Thai PM Prayut Chan-o-cha is leading a delegation to officiate at the opening of a new rail *service* between Thailand and Cambodia at Klong Luek railway ...

African swine fever could kill up to 200 million pigs and trigger a 70% rise in pork prices.

My partner Andrea and I just returned from two months of traveling around Southeast Asia: Cambodia and Thailand, but mostly in Vietnam. For many of you who ...

Pakistan lie between Australia and a possible FIFA World Cup qualifying showdown with Keisuke Honda and Cambodia on the road to Qatar 2022.

I am a second-generation Vietnamese immigrant, a child of refugees from the Vietnam War who lives in the heart of Little Saigon, California. My hometown has ...

The IMF Outlook on ASEAN Member States IMF Deputy Director of Asia Pacific Odd Per Brekk discusses his outlook for ASEAN member states and the possible ...

In this year's Hot List—our picks of the year's top hotel openings—Asia and the Indian Ocean lay claim to 18 hot properties.

When the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia, photographer Roland Neveu captured the start of what became a genocide.

Access to capital hampers smart city creation in the region. Access to capital is the most critical barrier for developing smart cities in Asean nations, including ...

Two young men sit under the shade of trees in Takeo, Cambodia; Se Bros wears a button-up shirt and jeans and Monk Ry wears his deep orange garb.

Details when considering manufacturing cost of labor, capabilities and technology, and investment in Vietnam.

Financial authorities across Southeast Asia are embracing blockchain technology and digital currencies as a way of helping the poor get better access to ...

Last year, the Trump administration deported a record number of Cambodians from the United States. On the surface, these deportations appear to be another ...

Cambodia's recent development story has much in common with the broader region. Phenomenal growth has changed its economy and society beyond ...

In Cambodia, a government-funded Techo Startup Center was launched earlier with the aim to foster new tech startups in the country, according to local news ...

A visit to Japan by 10 young politics-oriented Cambodians indicates that Tokyo is working outside the international media limelight to engage with both the ...

Doug Ericksen was criticised for previous trips to Cambodia, including one to monitor the July 2019 elections the White House said were 'neither free nor fair'

Brunei is threatening to stone gay people to death, Sri Lanka is reviving the death penalty and leaders are cracking down on journalism in our region.

Tens of thousands of Southeast Asian women have been lured to China by criminal networks promising lucrative jobs, only to be sold as brides.

Water fights, processions, traditional dishes, games and dancing – how you can join in the solar New Year partying in Southeast Asia. From April 14 to 16, ...

FILE PHOTO: Sa Kaew border with Cambodia. A Trat businesswoman, in eastern Thailand, has accused a Cambodian couple of scamming her out of 71,000 ...

Amid the race over whose technology will set the standards for 5G networks, country's users just want faster internet on their phones.

Are you making plans to choose a tertiary or higher education institution? You may be wondering where to start and whom you can speak to Youths like you,

The sexually explicit photos were plastered over Venerable Luon Sovath's Facebook page, with its more than 100,000 followers. “The monk lacks morals,” one ...

The government in Cambodia recently hosted a digital conference that celebrated the Kingdom's growing tech startup sector while simultaneously discussing ...

Last week, Vietnam and Cambodia held another iteration of their pre-scheduled list of joint maritime patrols. The development offered a glimpse into one ...

Daily crowds of over ten thousand energized digital technology professionals and enthusiasts from across Southeast Asia, Asia, Europe, and North America, ...

Over the past two years, Patrick Murphy has been a frequent visitor to Southeast Asia, including two visits to Cambodia in 2017.

BANGKOK — Cambodia faces a serious blow to its economy as the European Union investigates the government's deteriorating human rights record and ...

Despite all of the gloom and doom about Japan's aging population and China's trade war with the US, Asia is still home to many of the world's most promising ...

PHNOM PENH -- Construction began Friday on Cambodia's first-ever expressway, a $2 billion Chinese-funded project that underscores the country's growin.

International Women's Day was celebrated throughout Southeast Asia on Friday through peaceful processions calling for equal opportunities for all women and ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Sunday he is considering proposing a new bill to impose the death sentence for those who rape their daughters or ...

In May 2015, the Polka Dot Restaurant closed its doors after serving eggs and flapjacks for more than a half century in White River Junction. Just across the river ...

The Dragon Gold exercises were held in Kampot province's Chumkiri district on land controlled by Infantry Brigade 70, an elite reserve force for Prime Minister ...

Regional trend sees criminal law repeatedly weaponised to target journalists and muzzle free and fair reporting.

No need to consult the Moscone Center map to find Channy Laux's booth at the recent Winter Fancy Food Show, a massive San Francisco trade showcase for ...

Japan Inc. is launching a plan intended to make it a bigger development player in Southeast Asia, a region increasingly awash in Chinese money. Cambodia is ...

These are challenging times for Southeast Asia. Despite buoyant economies, healthy investment and growing trade ties, predictability and certainty in.

SEASIN aims to develop a network of universities that will help support its goals of achieving sustainable and inclusive growth, social cohesion, and equity in ...

One year to regain the trust of the European Union. Cambodia, another of the fashion production poles in Southeast Asia, could see a 10 billion dollar business ...

Cambodia's foreign policy has seen remarkable improvements after 1993 when the country held its UN-organized national election. The Cambodian ...

Pich Sopheap's newest installation hangs from the glass roof of National Gallery Singapore, two imposing structures the size and shape of shipping containers ...

Last week, the suggestion that Cambodia could move towards changing its constitution to facilitate growing Chinese military presence in the country led to ...

South-east Asia is seeing a rapid deterioration of free press and freedom of expression. According to the 2018 Freedom in the World report from the Washington ...

A recent report has outlined the potentially damaging effects that Brexit could have on Cambodia and other countries in Southeast Asia.

President Xi Jinping also promised to import 400000 tonnes of rice from Cambodia and vowed to push bilateral trade to US$10 billion by 2023.

As far as bodies of water go, Cambodia is mostly known for the Mekong River. It provides fish and transport for millions of people and has become a romantic ...

While Western pressure squeezes Cambodia's foreign policy options, internal weaknesses hinder the implementation of a more robust international strategy.

Cambodia and Myanmar will be forced to pay hefty tariffs to export rice to the EU – and farmers fear that it will hit rice industries hard.

Since early 2015, Plastic Free Cambodia (PFC) has been the public voice for plastic free awareness in the region. Plastic Free Cambodia might seem like an ...

Outbreaks of disease, unsolved deaths or bad luck are often blamed by villagers on witchcraft, and sometimes there are violent consequences.

*Fresh* from celebrating four decades since the downfall of the former Khmer Rouge rulers, Cambodia welcomed several Chinese warships. Just days after last ...

China published a five-year blueprint on Friday seeking economic and financial integration between southern Guangxi province and Southeast Asia, ...

Phirum Hay, country head of Bosch in Cambodia, discusses the importance of the Kingdom's adoption of new technologies and modern safety systems in its ...

More than 1000 Southeast Asian experts worry about the region in 2019. The report by the Asean Studies Centre at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute also finds that ...

Southeast Asian countries should be cautious in negotiating with China on its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to avoid being trapped in unsustainable ...

While the situation deteriorates at the border, thousands of Southeast Asian refugees who have lived in the US for years are facing renewed pressure.

TOKYO -- Southeast Asia faces mixed prospects for democracy after two contrasting elections this year -- one in Malaysia that sent a corrupt gove.

In a region marked by rulers with much to hide, these moves to silence the criticism of the mighty is worrying.

This year has been a whirlwind of surprising news and geopolitical drama in Southeast Asia, with three elections, infamous imprisonments and a meeting in ...

Three dozen Cambodians – one of the largest groups of Southeast Asian refugees to be deported from the United States to date – arrived in Phnom Penh on ...

In addition to regression on the issue of press freedom, Southeast Asia witnessed backsliding on rights and freedoms in many other areas in 2018, wit…

2018 was a brutal year, in many ways, for civil society activists, rights advocates, and democratic politicians throughout Southeast Asia. Cambodia's…

A bat which looks like *NSYNC's Lance Bass, a gibbon named for Luke Skywalker, and a toad which seems to have come “from Middle Earth,” are among 157 ...

A new group of more than 40 deportees, many of them the children of refugees, will be the largest yet to be ejected by the Trump administration.

Largely driven by poverty, tens of thousands of young Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laos and Myanmar women marry Chinese men each year.

Southeast Asia has long been a top destination for couples seeking surrogate mothers. Thailand banned the practice in 2015 after several high-profile cases, ...

“Travelers are often nervous of getting ripped off, and therefore miss out on some experiences. They're wary of tuk-tuk drivers, as they think they're going to get ...

China has always wielded significant influence in Southeast Asia. Lately, though, as the West turns its attention elsewhere, Beijing has been seeking to solidify ...

Takeshi Izuka is quietly building a city of the future in the Cambodian wilderness. At the heart of it is a tech university that he says will spearhead similar planned ...

The real estate markets of Southeast Asia—including those in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia—have been booming in recent years, and development and ...

More than half of the population of Southeast Asia is under 30. With brighter prospects than their parents had, Southeast Asian youth chart their own ...

Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister of State for Asia & the Pacific, Mark Field, begins a six-country visit to Southeast Asia today (14 August), during which ...

1 AUGUST, 2018 BY RICHARD DAVIES. Overflowing rivers have caused severe flooding in parts of South East Asia over the last few days. Around 8,000 ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — It is the final stretch of campaign season in Cambodia. The dark-blue posters for Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian ...

BANGKOK -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations should "delegitimize" the near-certain victory of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in an election ...

With more than one billion people learning English worldwide today, there are huge opportunities for English teachers. In fact, demand for native English...

The economic potential of China's Belt and Road projects in South-east Asia is huge. But whether that potential can be maximised hinges not on funding or ...

Snares – either metal or rope – are indiscriminately killing wildlife across Southeast Asia, from elephants to mouse deer. The problem has become so bad that ...