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China's search for Mr. Naw Kham, overseen by its powerful Ministry of Public Security, was a hard-nosed display of the government’s political and economic clout across Laos, Myan...(full article)

Thailand's deep south has experienced periodic disturbances going back a century, but the past decade has been its bloodiest phase. There is no organizing command structure with th...(full article)

They chanted, “God is great,” as they buried Maroso Chantrawadee in the village of Yuelor in the violence-plagued deep south of Thailand on Thursday. Dozens of Muslim men in...(full article)

Legal cases against Oxford-educated Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thailand’s former prime minister are starting to pile up. Last month the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) charged ...(full article)

Divide-and-rule European imperialists, favoring one ethnic group and persecuting or neglecting another, or drawing arbitrary lines in the sand or the grass, originally transformed ...(full article)

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