Monks gesture during an event ahead of the Buddhist festival Asanha Bucha at Bang Nara temple in the southern Thai province of Narathiwat on July 8, 2022. Photo: AFP
30 November 2022
A Buddhist temple in central Thailand has been left without monks after all its holy men...
Myanmar junta crony businessman Tun Min Latt. Photo: Twitter
22 September 2022
A Myanmar businessman accused of selling arms to the Myanmar junta and financially...
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has launched a brutal 'war on drugs' in which thousands have been killed. Photo: AFP
09 September 2022
The Philippines on Thursday called on the International Criminal Court not to resume its...
27 August 2022
A combined defence force of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and PDFs detained four...
People ride a motorbike on the Myanmar's side near a bridge built over the Tiau river, a natural border between India and Myanmar at Zokhawthar in India's northeastern state of Mizoram. Photo: AFP
01 February 2022
Worried over increasing drug trafficking from Myanmar into its northeastern states due to...
Laos has in recent years been a gateway for drug traffickers. Photo: AFP
29 October 2021
Laotian police have carried out Asia's biggest-ever single seizure of illegal drugs,...
A Myanmar policeman walks past a pile of drugs prior to a 'Destruction Ceremony of Seized Narcotic Drugs' to mark International Day against Drug Abuse, in Yangon, Myanmar, 26 June 2014.  Photo: EPA
04 October 2021
Myanmar authorities seized 1,000 kilograms of narcotics worth 18 billion kyats (over 9.3...