Freedom slipping in Southeast Asia
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From Nepal's royal coup to the flight of Cambodian opposition leaders, democracy is under assault.
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As Indonesiaâs former strongman lay on his sickbed this week, the country was by its actions repudiating him.
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ACEH BESAR, Indonesia -- Children returned to school in this rural Indonesian district yesterday, some in freshly cleaned uniforms, others raggedy in bare, muddy feet. Many remained edgy two weeks after southern Asia's earthquake and tsunami catastrophe.
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VIENTIANE -- Southeast Asian ministers yesterday finalized a free trade pact with China and a host of other accords to be adopted at a leaders summit, but touchy topics like the lack of democracy in Myanmar and Islamic unrest in Thailand were sidestepped. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting of 10 leaders was a prelude to a two-day summit. ...
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The disaster in Southeast Asia touches us all. Areas, which were already very poor has been affected by incomprehensible destruction.
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A steep, winding road through jungle-covered mountains in the Indonesian province of Aceh amounts to the greatest potential lifeline to communities devastated by the tsunami. It is also a primary bottleneck in the Indonesian relief effort.
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HARDLINERS in Burma&#39;s military regime were consolidating their control of the country yesterday after ousting the Prime Minister, painting a gloomy prospect for the release of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Comment is free: Ian Buruma: Repressive regimes are playing on our colonial guilt, but we must stand up for those values to which oppressed people aspire
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Tsunami survivors living  in squalid camps in Indonesia's ravaged Aceh province are  getting restless, saying Tuesday they need a way to get back on  their feet just as much as they need food and shelter.
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Ziff Davis - Nations struggle to regain their footing after the devastating tsunami in southeast Asia, where many areas have skipped the traditional wireline infrastructure and have moved directly to wireless communications.
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Nearly two years after the tsunami, a regional warning system is beset by squabbling and inaction, officials and experts say, as individual countries instead scramble to implement their own schemes.
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Burmaâs tough, but pragmatic, prime minister was sacked by his hardline army colleagues, clouding prospects for the freedom of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and for democracy in the military-led south-east Asian nation.
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The unprecedented crisis in Asia has left governments struggling to catch up with public opinion, says Paul Reynolds
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Religious freedom has deteriorated in Iraq, Egypt, and China, and improved in Saudi Arabia, a US report says.
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Fading in and out of consciousness, former President Suharto has clung to life more tenaciously than he clung to power.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 5 -- Just weeks ago, Fernando AraÃÂºjo's only connection to the outside world was his shortwave radio. In six years as a hostage of Marxist rebels, his life had been reduced to a grim routine of forced marches, a diet of soggy beans and rice and the realization that freedom...
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Russia and China, regional powers trying to restore Cold War-size importance to their roles in the world, are having a difficult time leaving the path of authoritarian government, a Freedom House analysis says.