投稿者: Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent, and agencies
Russian president’s trip comes after he signed mutual defence pact with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-unAnalysis: Putin and Kim quiet on details of mutual aid agreementVladimir Putin has arrived in Vietnam for talks with its communist leaders on the f…
Rivals had said February election won by former general was undermined by state interference and unfair rule changesIndonesia’s electoral commission has formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony, after the country’s highest court…
Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged despite international pleas to reconsider capital punishment for drugs offencesSingapore has hanged a prisoner for conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, authorities said, ignoring international protests and concer…
Rosmah Mansor convicted of receiving over £1m to help a firm get a schools business contractThe wife of the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for soliciting and receiving bribes in exchange for governm…
State department says military government in Yangon has not faced enough economic and diplomatic pressure, amid global outrage at killingsA senior US official has urged China to do more to rein in Myanmar’s military after its execution of four people, …
Groups that have been fighting military for decades have voiced support for anti-coup protestersA prominent ethnic armed group in Myanmar says it has captured a military base near the Thai border, as clashes escalated days after the junta chief committ…