Myanmar leader Suu Kyi makes first official trip, to Laos
Myanmar (AP) — Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader and foreign minister, visited neighboring Laos on Friday in her first official trip abroad. Myanmar and Laotian state media…
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China’s Xi Jinping moves to take more direct command over military
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Chinese President Xi Jinping has assumed a more direct role over the country’s powerful armed forces as head of its increasingly important joint operations, displaying both his…
Year behind and year ahead summed up in 2 words
Asked to sum up 2015 in two words, and to do the same for their expectations for the coming year, people around the world have this to say: ___ THAILAND…
Suu Kyi’s party wins historic majority in Myanmar polls
By GRANT PECK Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party attained a historic majority in Myanmar’s Parliament on Friday, making it possible for them to form the Southeast Asian…
China summons US ambassador to protest ship near reef
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and ROBERT BURNS China summoned the American ambassador to protest the U.S. Navy’s sailing of a warship close to one of China’s artificial islands in the South…
Malaysia detains 8 suspects for questioning about Thai blast
Eight people, including four believed to be ethnic Uighurs, have been detained in Malaysia for questioning in connection with last month’s bombing of a shrine in Bangkok that killed 20…
More than 2,000 enslaved fishermen rescued in 6 months
By ESTHER HTUSAN and MARGIE MASON More than 2,000 fishermen have been rescued this year from brutal conditions at sea, liberated as a result of an Associated Press investigation into…
Suspect in Bangkok bombing tells police he’s ‘guilty’
By NATTASUDA ANUSONADISAI A key suspect in last month’s deadly Bangkok bombing was transferred Monday to police custody after a week of military interrogation, and was asked to acknowledge the…