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Although the dispute about conflicting claims in the South China Sea took center stage at the recent ASEAN security forum, U.S. officials also focused on addressing another potential conflict relating to Asia’s growing energy needs. The Mekong River and its tributaries sustain tens of millions of people in Southeast Asia, but the river is also the site of several controversial new hydropower projects

Human Rights Watch on Friday called on the courts to drop all charges against a staff member for the rights group Licadho, who the group says has been unjustly charged with incitement. Leang Sokchouen lost an appeal Thursday and is facing a two-year prison sentence for allegedly distributing anti-government leaflets. Licadho has maintained his innocence, while Human Rights Watch in a statement derided the “politicization and incompetence of Cambodia’s courts.” The US-based rights group said the charges against Leang Sokchouen had changed during appeal to incitement under the new penal code, which was not in effect at the time of his alleged offense in January 2010.

Political novice Yingluck Shinawatra says she has formed a coalition with four smaller parties, boosting her majority in parliament a day after being elected Thailand’s first female prime minister. Election officials said Yingluck’s Puea Thai party captured 265 of the 500 seats in Sunday’s voting. The addition of the smaller parties will bring the total to 299 seats, providing insurance against legal challenges that could eat away at the Puea Thai majority

Three decades since the Khmer Rouge decimated Cambodia, killing up to a quarter of the population in pursuit of a communist utopia, the devastation to families is still being felt.

President Barack Obama has discussed the current situation in Afghanistan in an interview with the Voice of America.

Norway, Alaska, and Alberta have been operating petroleum revenue funds which are considered among the successful nonrenewable resource funds. Rules governing the three funds are quite different, from deposit and withdrawal rules to investment strategies and how the funds withdrawn are to be spent .This briefing note, third in a series of four, gives a [...]