Michael Sullivan
Stories
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Asia
Vietnam's top security official is confirmed as president
To Lam, who oversaw police and intelligence operations at a time when rights groups say basic freedoms had been suppressed, was confirmed amid a major reshuffle of the country's top leadership.
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World
Myanmar military struggles against ethnic armed groups, post-coup resistance forces
Myanmar's military is reeling from a string of defeats at the hands of anti-junta forces 3 years after the February 2021 coup. Are the recent opposition successes enough to help topple the regime?
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Politics
Cambodians to vote in election — widely seen as a sham — and extend rule of Hun Sen
Cambodians will vote in an election Sunday that will be neither free nor fair, but will extend the 38-year long rule of Hun Sen and likely ensure the succession of his son.
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World
Thailand's voters overwhelmingly support opposition parties in elections
The Pheu Thai party and the progressive Move Forward Party made a strong showing, in a repudiation to the military-backed government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.
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World
A Myanmar activist loses almost everything but hope
Nilar Thein, an activist who met her husband while imprisoned, started a family during the heady days of Myanmar's experiment with democracy. Her husband now dead, she's on the run.
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World
What's next for Myanmar's former leader
Friday should be the end of Myanmar's former leader's legal drama. What's next for Aung San Suu Kyi?
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World
Thailand is rethinking its approach in its drug laws
Southeast Asia has some of the toughest drug laws in the world, but Thailand bucking that trend. It has decriminalized cannabis and freed thousands of people convicted on related offenses.
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Asia
Myanmar government announces the execution of 4 democracy activists
Myanmar's military government has executed four people it accused of carrying out acts of terror. They're the first official executions in the Southeast Asia nation in decades.
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Asia
Biden welcomes leaders of Southeast Asian nations for special ASEAN summit
This week's summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations provides the latest opportunity for the Biden administration to push for isolating Russia internationally over the war in Ukraine.
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Asia
In Myanmar, military leaders will meet with visiting Cambodian prime minister
Cambodia's Hun Sen is in Myanmar, the first foreign leader to go there since last year's coup. Some hope the much criticized trip can persuade the junta to end the violence there.