Milton Osborne looks at the Chinese trade expansion in the South East Asian nations just to the south of it and some of the concerns that are coming out of these countries.

Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani, the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, arrived here on Tuesday to pay an official visit to Cambodia. The Qatar Prime Minister’s two-da…

SINGAPORE — Soaring food and fuel prices are now East Asia’s biggest challenge, even more than the US financial turmoil which is roiling global markets, the World Bank said on Tuesday. In its half-ye…

Blogger Edicio dela Torre explains why “In Lao PDR, NGO refers to international NGOs.” He adds: “If you apply the name NGO to a Laotian organization, it is interpreted as an anti-government organization.” Local NGOs are known as “non-profit associations.”

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Negotiators opened their first talks on forging a devilishly complex global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol — and faced wide divisions between rich and d…

An impressive hip hop concert featuring beat boxing, dancing, disk scratching and rapping surprised a capacity crowd at the Mekong Deck restaurant on Friday night.

The massive concert, in front of…

This month’s challenge on NaBloPoMo is ‘letters’ - however you want to interpret them.

Dear Sky,

Thanks for the rain yesterday. It was quite a surprise, since the weather has been doing its usual thing of parading through March and April, getting hotter drier and dustier.

This morning I was greeted by the sunrise - pinks and reds over the mountains. It was an impressive sight after such a long

THAILAND: April 1, 2008 BANGKOK - The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human…