Michael Sullivan

Questioning the official count of how a battle happened 400 years ago has gotten historian Sulak Sivaraksa looking at 15 years in prison under Thailand's lese-majeste law.

Myanmar is drawing ire from the international community for detaining two Reuters journalists for allegedly violating a colonial-era law called the Official Secrets Act.

Bangladesh has signed an agreement with Myanmar to return hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a recent army crackdown. There's a lot of skepticism about the deal.

Myanmar and Bangladesh say they have signed an agreement to allow the return of Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh. But many Rohingya say they are too scared of violent attacks in Myanmar to return home.

In Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen's crackdown on dissent continues. This week, the Supreme Court denied bail to the head of the country's opposition. He's accused of treason.

A year after Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej died, he was cremated as part of an elaborate send-off. Bhumibol Adulyadej was the world's longest reigning monarch and 88 at the time of his death.

Lines of mourners gathered to pay respects to King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died last year at the age of 88. He will be cremated on Thursday after 5 days of funeral rites.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled from Myanmar into neighboring Bangladesh. But Bangladesh is reluctant to host them.

Police in Bangladesh announced that at least 12 people have died after a boat capsized. It had been carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar.

The U.N. calls it the world's fastest developing refugee emergency. And it appears far from over. More than half a million Muslim minority Rohingya have fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh following a brutal crackdown by Myanmar's military.

More than half the Muslim minority Rohingya who have fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh are believed to be children. Most of them are at risk and in need.

Nobel laureate and de facto head of Myanmar's government Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday addressed the Rohingya crisis for the first time since hundreds of thousands began fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh.

Over 400,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in just the past three weeks. Aid agencies and the Bangladesh government are struggling to cope.

Nearly 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's military crackdown. Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being criticized for engaging in the kind of repression she spent decades fighting.

President Trump on Tuesday welcomes to the White House Malaysia's prime minister, who is a key player in a kleptocracy case. It involves billions of dollars allegedly looted from a government fund.

Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar.

The Thai military seized power three years ago after months of political turmoil promising a swift return to democratic rule. But the military seems to be digging in for the long haul.

Critics say Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs has targeted the poor disproportionately while high level drug kingpins go free. More than 7,000 people have died in encounters with police or in so-called vigilante killings, mostly in poorer neighborhoods where getting by is already a struggle.

Some 7,000 alleged drug suspects have been killed so far in Rodrigo Duterte's drug war. And he's more popular than ever — except among the poor, where the drug war's effects are most keenly felt.

Leila de Lima, 57, was jailed in February on President Rodrigo Duterte's orders, after she launched a Senate investigation into Duterte's bloody war on drugs. It's not the first time they've tangled.