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A Malayan sun bear who came to Wellington Zoo more than a decade ago after being rescued on the back of a motorbike in Cambodia has died. Sean the sun ...

Taipei, Dec. 14 (CNA) Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) issued a press release Friday announcing that officers escorted Chung Wen-chieh (鍾文傑), ...

While a recent dam collapse in Laos devastated thousands, environmentalists warn that a wave of new hydropower dams in the country could spell disaster for ...

A bat which looks like singer/actor Lance Bass, a gibbon named for Luke Skywalker, and a toad which seems to have come from Lord of the Rings “Middle Earth ...

Single Chinese men are known as 'bare branches', a pejorative term in a country where pressure to marry and extend the family tree is sharpA massive gender ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos are among the least civically engaged people in Southeast Asia, a Gallup global report suggests. The Philippines obtained a ...

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One hundred and fifty-seven new species of flora and fauna were discovered in the Greater Mekong region in 2017 – eight in Cambodia – according to a new ...

A wave of worry swept through Minnesota's Southeast Asian refugee community Thursday as the news spread that the Trump administration has proposed ...

US embassy spokesman Arend C Zwartjes confirmed on Thursday that 46 Cambodians will be deported from the US to Cambodia later this month, even as ...

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Cambodia has signed an aviation agreement with Kenya, opening the way for flights operating from Africa into the Southeast Asian country. The agreement was ...

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BANGKOK -- The power generating arm of Thailand's oldest industrial group, B. Grimm, has issued 5 billion baht ($152 million) in "green bonds" to raise funds ...

Bangkok, December 13, 2018--A Cambodian news fixer who helped to produce a documentary on sex trafficking for Russian government-funded international ...

America's Miss Universe contestant has been accused of 'normalized xenophobia' and compared to Mean Girls villain Regina George after appearing to mock a ...

For nearly three months, Roeuth An sat behind the walls of his immigration detention cell, dreaming of the day he might return to his family in Washington state.

Following Cambodias admission in 1999, Timor Leste is the final missing piece towards an ASEAN that encompasses all of Southeast Asia.

P2P Lending Asia. A list of Southeast Asian platforms offering peer-to-peer or P2P lending companies for borrowers and lenders to find each other.

The Singapore headquartered mClinica has recently reached a milestone to become the largest pharmacy data technology player in Southeast Asia: its platform ...

The one-child policy that China had for years resulted in a severe gender imbalance, with as many as 33 to34 million men lacking life partners. This has led to ...

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 ...

The White House again wants to expel certain groups of protected immigrants, a reversal after backing away from the policy months ago.

Cambodia is in a stand-off with the European Union (EU), a close friend and development partner for decades, but there are signs this fight may have wider ...

A United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal issued a verdict last month in a case involving two Khmer Rouge leaders, finding them guilty of genocide in ...

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Growing demand for meat – including chicken, pork and beef – in Cambodia has spurred an increase in imports of distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) ...

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.

The Industrial Bank of Korea plans to open new branches in Cambodia from 2020 onwards amid a broader push by the state-owned lender to expand in ...

Last week, there was a flurry of activity in Cambodia-Laos relations tied to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's anticipated visit to Laos. While both sides ...

PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court found six union leaders guilty on Tuesday (Dec 11) of instigating violent protests against the government in 2013 ...

Beijing's decades-long one-child policy has left a shortfall of nearly 33 million women in China, with the same number of men facing life on the shelfLargely ...

If East Asian countries intend to sustain their economies' growth, they are going to need to adapt their strategies, according to a recent World Bank report.

Last month, Asia Times, citing unnamed diplomatic sources, reported that China has lobbied Cambodia for a naval base in Koh Kong province on the Gulf of ...

For some years now, a charity in Laos has been providing women at risk of being trafficked with a new tool to seek help: the Chinese social media app WeChat.

Although Southeast Asia's go-to delivery services still have yet to begin operating in Cambodia, homegrown startups like Meal Temple aren't wasting any time in ...

OUDONG, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sophea was eight months pregnant when Cambodian police told her she would have to keep the baby ...

Jeffrey Williamson is communications associate with the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC). Any views expressed are his own and not those of.

Yeo Siew Hua's A Land Imagined was declared best film at the 29th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), a historic first win for a Singapore film since ...

Defending human rights on the frontlines in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. From the mounting body count in the “war on drugs” perpetrated by Philippines ...

Following its entry into Cambodia in 2017, Grab seems likely to bring its e-payment app, GrabPay into Cambodia sometime in 2019 as part of the wallet's ...

Growing demand for meat - including chicken, pork and beef - in Cambodia has spurred a commensurate increase in imports of U.S. distiller's dried grains with ...

Growing demand for meat – including chicken, pork and beef – in Cambodia has spurred a commensurate increase in imports of U.S. distiller's dried grains with ...

A Cambodian labour activist faces deportation home from Thailand over his role in making a sex-trafficking documentary that angered the Southeast Asian ...

Photos of refugees in Lowell by James Higgins and Joan Ross, like this one of Cambodian schoolchildren, are featured in the Southeast Asian Digital Archive.

Hundreds of Chinese nationals that China said scammed people while pretending to be public security officials are being deported from Cambodia today.

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Thirty-two surrogate mothers charged with human trafficking in Cambodia for carrying babies for Chinese clients have been released after agreeing to keep the ...

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Thirty-two Cambodian women who were charged with human trafficking for serving as surrogate mothers have been provisionally released from detention after ...

Vermont man nominated to serve as the ambassador to Cambodia.

Indonesia and Cambodia have agreed to intensify cooperation for ASEAN`s unity and centrality.

Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia is expected to diversify into finance and banking in the near term, offering microlending services to small ...

Beyonce, Angelina Jolie, David Beckham and Kate Hudson have flocked to the Southeast Asian country of Cambodia, which is seeing a spate of new luxury ...

When it comes to Fintech adoption and funding, Cambodia trails its ASEAN neighbours. However, that presents significant growth opportunities in the future.

The Cambodian government said Tuesday that Radio Free Asia is welcome to reopen its office in the capital Phnom Penh, asserting that no pressure had been ...

PHNOM PENH (REUTERS) - Cambodia's Parliament is reviewing a five-year ban on more than 100 members of the main opposition party, which could allow ...

Amy Bohman, an English as a second language and social studies teacher from Stevens Point, is in Cambodia for a U.S. Department of State fellowship.

Southeast Asia is a hotbed of martial arts, with each culture represented by its own unique art form. Generally speaking, for a cluster of countries in relative close ...

The digital economy in Southeast Asia is on track to hit $240 billion by 2025, which is $40 billion more than previous estimates, according to the latest e-Conomy ...

Japan's three megabanks — MUFG Bank, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC) — are ramping up services for local companies and ...

UMass Lowell and community partners will launch a digital archive chronicling the experiences of Southeast Asian-Americans in Lowell on Tuesday, Dec. 4.

Development work can be politically effective even in an autocratic country. A Cambodian NGO has demonstrated this by educating citizens about their legal ...

Tony Francis is bringing recognition to local artists at the KBach Gallery on Phnom Penh's Street 178, a trendy block in the capital's riverside district.

On Nov. 16, a fraught war crimes tribunal in Cambodia found former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan guilty of genocide.

Jakub Žák is a photographer who spent more than five years in South-East Asia documenting the work of the Czech Development Agency and other NGOs ...

The latest edition of the FIFA World Rankings has been updated, and it makes for some interesting viewing. The list, which is regularly updated to ensure that the ...

BANGKOK -- An African swine fever outbreak that began in China is heading toward Southeast Asia, alarming both authorities and pig farmers.Since Augus.

SINGAPORE -- Ride-hailing operator Go-Jek plans to enter multiple Southeast Asian markets in 2019, including ones not stated in the company's expansion ...

The recent ignoble falls from grace of two of Asia's former “first ladies” – the Philippines' Imelda Marcos and Malaysia's Rosmah Mansor – raise some relevant ...

Fourteen-year-old who was videoed speaking multiple languages at Angkor temples is on his first trip to the Cambodian capital, to get a passportThuch Salik ...

Southeast Asian countries may gain from shifting production linked to the tit-for-tat tariff dispute.

SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing group plans to take its mobile payments *service* into Cambodia and Myanmar as it expa.

Online scams by Chinese gangs that operate from foreign countries and target mainland Chinese are common throughout Southeast Asia.

There is no security need for Cambodia to have a foreign military base. Although sovereignty disputes and border tensions between Cambodia and its ...

DeKALB – I Younan An traveled a long way to play Yahtzee. A 21-year-old Northern Illinois University senior from Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city, ...

An new art exhibition in Phnom Penh featuring works by Cambodian and foreign artists will raise questions about plastic use and recycling.

Southeast Asian nations may soon have to 'choose sides' between the US and China in their ongoing trade war, the political heir to Cambodia's strongman ruler ...

The deportation of Southeast Asian refugees is often overlooked.

Southeast Asian nations may soon have to "choose sides" between the US and China in their ongoing trade war, the political heir to Cambodia's ...

ESET researchers have discovered a new watering hole campaign targeting several websites in Southeast Asia, believed to have been active since September ...

A prominent Vietnam-linked hacking group is exploiting a number of Southeast Asian organizations' websites to deliver malware that extracts detailed ...

Former inmates facing deportation place their hope in California's outgoing governor.

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia will not allow foreign military bases on its soil, strongman premier Hun Sen said on Monday (Nov 19), swatting away United ...

After nine years, the UN-assisted tribunal has convicted just three people for the communist group's killing of 1.7 million peopleCritics say it did not accomplish ...

The online newspaper Asia Times reported that the deep-water port, which is being developed by China's Union Development Group (UDG), could host ...

The international community has to pressure Cambodia to hold free and fair elections.

DeKALB — International Cambodian student I Younan An, who is also a senior political science major, proves anything is possible by becoming the first ...

For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. His deputy Nuon Chea, 92, and head of state ...

The soft white sand and sparkling, clear blue water are table stakes when it comes to a Southeast Asian beach vacation. Bonus points for the relative absence of ...

PHNOM PENH -- The Khmer Rouge tribunal will on Friday announce whether two surviving leaders of the Pol Pot regime are guilty of genocide -- a verdict.

(SINGAPORE) — The U.S. and China offered rival visions for the Asia-Pacific region Thursday at a summit of Southeast Asian nations whose economies and ...

Since 2017, China has lobbied Cambodia for a port in Koh Kong on the Gulf of Thailand that could also be used as a naval base, though it remains unclear how ...

Macau-based electronic gaming equipment supplier Asia Pioneer Entertainment (APE) is planning to expand into the United States and at least two new ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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