Southeast Asia
Thailand: editor sentenced for defaming king
A military court in Thailand sentenced web editor Nut Rungwong to four-and-a-half years in prison—the latest journalist convicted of defaming the nation's king.
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Southeast Asia
Worldwide despots: Orwell still dangerous
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.
Southeast Asia
Philippines: justice deferred in 2011 massacre
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.
Southeast Asia
Philippines: justice deferred in 2004 massacre
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.
Southeast Asia
Cambodia: reporter slain documenting illegal logging
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.
Southeast Asia
Mindanao: tribes want autonomy from Moro zone
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.
Southeast Asia
Burma: anti-Muslim pogrom in Mandalay
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.
Southeast Asia
Cambodia: court frees garment worker protesters
A Cambodian court convicted 23 unionists of inciting violence during a mass garment workers' strike but suspended their prison terms under international pressure.
Southeast Asia
Philippines: indigenous peoples pledge resistance
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.
Southeast Asia
Sharia (in)justice in Aceh (not just Brunei)
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.
Southeast Asia
Philippines: Moro autonomy deal signed
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.
Southeast Asia
Occupy Phnom Penh dispersed
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.