The UN Security Council has issued 4 statements regarding the military coup in Myanmar and the resulting humanitarian crisis, including a new one yesterday. The statements...
With the devastating double whammy of a global pandemic and the military coup descending into civil war, the UN fears that nearly half the people of...
The International Commission of Jurists is warning that media and journalists in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are seeing legal repression grow during the Covid-19 pandemic. In...
With Burmese nationals fleeing to Thailand to escape the violence in following the military coup, the United Nations UN Human Rights Office for Southeast Asia is...
A former policy advisor for a United Nations programme fighting AIDS, who claims she was sexually assaulted in a Bangkok hotel elevator by a then-senior official...
Healthcare workers in Myanmar staged a dawn rally yesterday, in protest at the February 1 military coup that deposed the government of civilian leader, Aung San...
Factories in Thailand are ordered to "go green." By 2025, all factories across the country need to have a Green Industry certification which means they are...
38 people died during Myanmar's anti-coup protests yesterday in what the United Nations is calling the "bloodiest day" in the country since the February 1 military...
https://youtu.be/-jUg311P-Rs Coming up today… the fallout from yesterday’s latest protest violence in Bangkok, the first vaccine in Thailand who got it, and a major drug haul...
Hackers in North Korea stole cryptocurrency worth more than $300 million USD to pay the government's nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, according to a confidential report...
United Nations human rights experts are speaking out against Thailand's "severe" use of the lèse majesté law, saying the law is used to "curtail criticism of...
Hundreds of Burmese nationals gathered outside the United Nations office in Bangkok to protest against the military coup in their home country. Many raised their hands...
Hundreds of Thais in South Korea have died in the past 5 years, many from "unknown causes," according to data reported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation....
The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights has expressed shock and dismay at Thailand’s use of its strict lèse majesté law against a 16 year...
Politicians have come out in support of the Kingdom’s lèse majesté law, amid calls from pro-democracy activists to have it abolished. The law, officially Section 112...
Pro-democracy protesters gathered in front of the United Nations building in Bangkok, calling on the organisation to step in after many activists were recently arrested for...
Roll up your sleeve, the Thai PM says everyone should be able to receive a Covid-19, if and when it is finally tested and approved for...
Today's pro-democracy rally in Bangkok poses an "elevated risk of unrest" after 21 protesters were arrested yesterday, according to an email sent to staff of the...
Internationally, tourism will plunge between 60 - 80% by the end of the year. The UN World Tourism Organisation makes the forecast in their latest report. The...
Thailand’s PM, Prayut Chan-o-cha, says he’s concerned about students using a controversial 3 finger salute, saying he’s heard that those who disagree with the political gesture...
