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President Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar's junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face interaction with a top leader of the ruling military.
President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record.
A senior U.S. official will visit Myanmar next week in line with Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
Leaders of 16 Asian countries gave high priority Sunday to finding a new economic growth model to free half the world's population from merely serving as producers for the West, the Thai prime minister said.
Southeast Asian nations unveil a landmark human rights watchdog this week, but critics charge that it will be both toothless and include in its membership one of the world's worst human rights offenders — military-ruled Myanmar.
Typhoon Parma weakened into a tropical storm but lingered off the northern Philippine coast Monday, causing widespread flooding and landslides that have killed 16 in the country and churning up rough seas that sank a cargo ship off neighboring Taiwan.
The Obama administration said Wednesday it will not relax harsh sanctions against military-run Myanmar even as it pursues a new policy of direct talks with the Southeast Asian nation's generals.
The United States welcomes Malaysia's crackdown on human trafficking, but wants to see "results rather than rhetoric" before it can remove the Southeast Asian country from a blacklist, a senior official said Thursday.
U.S. Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia is visiting Hanoi on the last leg of a Southeast Asian tour. The highlight of his swing through the region was a stop in Myanmar, where he won the release of an imprisoned American man.
When bomb blasts tore through two luxury hotels in Indonesia's capital where Andi Suhandi worked as a florist, he tried to phone a colleague to make sure he was safe.
An infestation of the white striped fruit fly has been found in Southern California, marking the first detection of the Southeast Asian agricultural pest in the Western Hemisphere, state authorities said Friday.
Police were investigating the origin of an Internet message claiming responsibility for twin hotel bombings in Indonesia's capital nearly two weeks ago. The group calling itself al-Qaida Indonesia said the attacks targeted the American business community.
President Barack Obama has renewed sanctions against the junta that runs the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar.
The House has voted to renew sanctions meant to penalize the junta that runs the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, also called Burma.
The recent aborted voyage of a North Korean ship, photographs of massive tunnels and a secret meeting have raised concern that one of the world's poorest nations may be aspiring to join the nuclear club — with help from its friends in Pyongyang.
An Australian think tank predicted that Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah might launch new attacks just a day before Friday's deadly hotel bombings in Indonesia.
A wife of one of Southeast Asia's most-wanted militants was detained for questioning Wednesday after bombings last week at two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital that killed seven people, local television reported.
North Korea appears to be preparing to test an advanced missile designed to reach the United States, a U.S. official said Monday, ratcheting up tensions after its second underground nuclear test.
Several items left by an uninvited American visitor, including a book on the Mormon faith and a letter, could be used to convict and imprison Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on charges of violating her house arrest, a state-run newspaper said Saturday.
Leaders of demonstrations that plunged the Thai capital into chaos Tuesday called off their protests following rioting and clashes that left two dead and more than 120 injured across Bangkok. Several were then taken into police custody.
Southeast Asian leaders vowed Sunday to push ahead with ambitious plans to become a European Union-style economic community by 2015 despite roadblocks posed by the global financial crisis and Myanmar's dismal human rights record.
Malaysia's prime minister has called for Myanmar's Muslim boat people to be pushed back if they attempt to land on any Southeast Asian shores in search of asylum, according to newspaper reports Friday.
Southeast Asian leaders vowed Sunday to push ahead with ambitious plans to become a European Union-style economic community by 2015 despite roadblocks posed by the global financial crisis and Myanmar's dismal human rights record.
President Barack Obama's administration is reviewing its policy toward Myanmar to see if it can more effectively promote reform in the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday.
Thailand's government may still be miffed at Angelina Jolie for speaking out on behalf of impoverished boat people, but the actress has prompted soul-searching among some in the Southeast Asian country.
Myanmar: Israeli aid teams head to a devastated country"After the Myanmar government opened its doors to foreign aid for help with recovery efforts after a devastating cyclone, Israel has decided to send aid teams to the Southeast Asian country, including one from the Foreign Ministry.
Four killed in Myanmar protest crackdownYANGON (Thomson Financial) - Myanmar security forces used batons, tear gas and live rounds today in a violent crackdown on mass protests against the military junta, killing at least four people, including three Buddhist monks.
Bird flu hits two Vietnam duck farms, government says - International Herald Tribune - SwiftfoxBird flu has struck two duck farms in southern Vietnam, the government said just days after claiming the virus had been contained in the Southeast Asian country.
Cambodian Buddhist monks protest against VietnamI had no idea Vietnam was so ruthless about religious freedom. More than 40 Cambodian Buddhist monks protested outside the Vietnamese embassy today, calling on the communist-run nation's visiting president, Nguyen Minh Triet, to allow greater freedom of religion.
A reader dared me to go to the Muslim world. "They're all savages" he said. So I went. Here's what I didn't find."You need to go see how they live over there," he huffed in a phone call at the beginning of the year. By "they," he meant believers of Islam. "Over there" was anywhere outside of America. "They're savages," he said. "Don't you get it?"
Friendly MuslimsAnyone who's traveled in Malaysia and Indonesia can testify to the friendly, open-minded character of most of the citizens. Every nation has a legend, and in Malaysia there's one an American traveler might encounter it. It goes something like this:
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