Cambodians Regularly Face Pre-Trial Detention: Rights Group
Cambodian authorities frequently hold suspects, especially the young, in detention pending trial, even though the law could allow them to be released on bail while awaiting the completion of their judicial proceedings, according to a report released Wednesday.
Minor crime suspects are also provided a “worryingly low” level of legal...
Malaysia: Illiterate migrant kids a ‘time bomb’
Kota Kinabalu: The growing number of uneducated migrant children in Sabah, will pose a social time bomb situation in Malaysia if unsolved in the long term, possibly escalating crime rates as seen in West Malaysia by 'Sabahans' and social problems, as seen in some countries in Europe by migrant...
Cambodia’s opposition to mark International Human Rights Day
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will stage mass rallies in capital Phnom Penh and tourist city of Siem Reap on Dec. 10 to celebrate the International Human Rights Day, a party spokesman said Thursday.
"We plan to mobilize 20,000 people in...
Joel Brinkley: Coca-Cola steps up for Cambodian land-grab victims
Many Southeast Asians and others around the world owe their thanks to the Coca-Cola Company.
No, I'm not expressing gratitude for the sugary drinks that can help make people fat. But to make those drinks, Coke is one of the world's largest sugar consumers. The company buys sugar from distributors...
Aquino to help Myanmar’s move to democracy
MANILA, Philippines — President Benigno Aquino lauded democratic reforms in Myanmar as he signed several bilateral agreements with his visiting counterpart Thein Sein Thursday.
Thein Sein arrived at Manila’s presidential palace where he was accorded a red carpet welcome for his first visit to the Philippines.
Aquino said the Philippines, which...
ASEAN, United States Launch New Cooperation Programmes
JAKARTA, 6 December 2013 - ASEAN and U.S. officials met today to launch new cooperation programmes and mark achievements over the course of 36 years of partnership. The event highlighted joint promotion of trade and investment, good governance, combatting transnational crimes such as trafficking in persons and wildlife trafficking,...
[Bunn Nagara] ASEAN way of consensual decision-making
Too often are standard arguments repeated at international conferences, particularly those of a regional strategic nature, regardless of whether those arguments are true or correct.
There is, for example, the one about ASEAN’s supposedly flaccid process of consensual decision-making. But even if a demonstrably better alternative exists, which critics typically...
Law officials gather to discuss ASEAN legal cooperation
VIENTIANE, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Legal cooperation between ASEAN members dominated the agenda of the two-day 15th ASEAN Senior Law Officials Meeting (ASLOM), which concluded here in Lao capital Vientiane on Thursday.
"ASLOM has made progress in carrying out its works and mandates in the implementation of various legal cooperation...
Malaysia: Umno declares war on Shia Muslims, deviants and gays
Umno has declared war on Shia Muslims, gays, lesbians, trans-sexuals, liberals and those who have insulted Islam, saying the government should set up a commission to protect the country's official religion.
The country's largest party of Muslims today tabled a resolution in its assembly to introduce a bill in the...
US, UN Call for Probe into Thai Trafficking of Rohingya
BANGKOK — The United Nations and the United States called Friday for investigations into the findings of a Reuters report that Thai immigration officials moved Burmese refugees into human trafficking rings.
The report, published on Thursday and based on a two-month investigation in three countries, revealed a clandestine policy to...
