Story Archive
2015-03-31
The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorist group, however, has a foothold in three Indian states, an investigation reveals.
2015-03-31
The Fourth Army regional commander promises a transparent investigation into the operation in Pattani province.
2015-03-30
Six suspected members of Burma’s Rohingya minority are among the detainees.
2015-03-30
But the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) could invite human rights abuses, critics say.
2015-03-30
Washiqur Rahman becomes the third Bangladeshi blogger since 2013 to be slain for criticizing Islamic fundamentalism online.
2015-03-29
Anti-Christian incidents are rising under the Hindu nationalist-led government, members of the minority group say.
2015-03-27
The family of 17 includes two children who were born in Thai custody.
2015-03-26
But the state’s new government says it is moving to reverse that.
2015-03-26
A fatwa from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) calls for transgender people to be executed for same-sex acts.
2015-03-26
The U.S., meanwhile, presses the Thai government to do more to protect foreign seafood workers.
2015-03-25
A special court has summoned Manmohan Singh and five others implicated in a corruption scandal around coal-mining licenses.
2015-03-25
Md. Anowar Hossain and Helal Uddin were held captive for more than two weeks.
2015-03-25
Elections will take place next month in Bangladesh’s two biggest cities.
2015-03-25
In outburst at media, junta leader warns of consequences for those who criticize too much.
2015-03-25
Weapons were also seized in a raid in Toh Sud village of Tung Dang district, military sources say.
2015-03-24
Justices strike down a controversial clause, citing public’s right to know.
2015-03-24
For years, Luh Putu Noni Marheni says, she kept waiting for her father to come home.
2015-03-24
Farmers, plantation workers and families suffer as a result.
2015-03-23
The life and times of Singapore’s founding father inter-weaved Malaysia’s story.
2015-03-23
BJP-PDP coalition government moves swiftly to implement campaign promises
2015-03-23
People’s incomes are plummeting, while the cost of living is rising.
2015-03-20
A Malaysian, Thai and Iranian are named as suspects in separate probes.
2015-03-20
Deadly raids are a regular occurrence in Kathua, near the India-Pakistan border.
2015-03-20
Courts hand down sentences in a 2013 bombing in Bangkok and a 2012 roadside bomb in Pattani province.
2015-03-19
The state turns the case over to central government investigators, after coming up with no arrests.
2015-03-19
Sponsors of legislation sanctioning stoning and amputations will now try to get these punishments through parliament.
2015-03-19
The four face charges of financing international terrorism and violating immigration laws, officials say.
2015-03-19
Plainclothes police picked him up from his hiding place on March 10, his wife alleges.
2015-03-19
The insurgency in the far southern region has contributed to delays.
2015-03-18
Both the ruling and opposition blocs are split over a party’s proposal to amend a state’s Islamic laws.
