Concerns of a Myanmar military counter-offensive at the border has drawn neighbouring Thailand closer to the conflict.
Myanmar has been locked in civil war since the army took power from Aung Suu Kyi’s elected government in 2021.
President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013,immediately winning over many foreign governments with promises of unprecedented investment.
Asian news agencies,one citing an Indonesian official,reported the boat was headed to Australia. Border Force said this was not true.
The American writer’s latest novel imagines the days when George Orwell was a policeman in Burma.
Hundreds rallied on the steps of Victorian parliament to protest against human rights abuses in South-East Asian nations ahead of a diplomatic summit in Melbourne.
Democracy activists are demanding the Commonwealth follow its closest international allies by imposing widespread sanctions against the military and its conglomerates.
A charity has reported a sevenfold increase in attacks globally on Christian churches,schools and hospitals in the past year – but it gets little attention in the West.
From covering Shane Warne’s tragic death to travelling with Penny Wong to her home town,Chris Barrett saw a bit of everything.
The Sydney economist is no Jason Bourne,but as an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi’s government he was in the junta’s sights soon after the 2021 coup.
Fleeing violence and squalid conditions in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh,the persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar is desperate.