Protesters in military-ruled Thailand have been silently reading 1984 in public to outwit a ban on gatherings—leading to the book itself being banned. Egypt could be next.
Protesters in the Philippines marked five years since the country's worst political massacre, at Ampatuan—where paramilitary troops killed 58 opponents of a local boss.
A decade after striking workers were massacred at Hacienda Luisita in Central Luzon, nobody has been brought to justice. Survivors now demand resignation of President Aquino.
Journalist Taing Tri, of a local newspaper in Cambodia's Kratie province, was shot dead as he attempted to photograph trucks transporting illegal luxury wood.
Indigenous tribes within the proposed Bangsamoro territory in Mindanao, created under a peace deal with Moro rebels, are demanding that their ancestral lands be excluded.
A Buddhist mob attacked Muslims in Burma's second city of Mandalay, damaging a mosque and Muslim-owned shops and leaving at least five injured.
A Cambodian court convicted 23 unionists of inciting violence during a mass garment workers' strike but suspended their prison terms under international pressure.
Datu Guibang Apoga, fugitive leader of the Manobo indigenous people of Mindanao, held a jungle press conference to pledge renewed resistance to militarization of tribal lands.
A rape victim is sentenced to be flogged for "adultery" in Aceh—more grim evidence that local autonomy in the Indonesian region has been usurped by clerical reactionaries.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) officially ended four decades of armed struggle in the Philippines, when it formally signed a pact on regional autonomy.
Cambodian military police opened fire on striking garment factory workers, killing four, and then dispersed a protest encampment from a central square in Phnom Penh.
The UN in its new Southeast Asia Opium Survey finds that opium production in Burma soared in 2013—along with renewed insurgency wars in the country's north.
