As the world’s largest single provider of humanitarian aid, USAID last year allocated $860m to the region alone. The agency operates in six out of Southeast Asia’s 11 countries – Cambodia, Laos, ...

When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French missionary Fr François Ponchaud persisted in exposing the regime’s horrors. With ...

Le Monde managed to visit Myanmar's largest city despite the war. The city has lost none of its buzz, our journalist reports.

The government’s decision to void the visa of Gerry Flynn, 33, reflects the increasingly straitened circumstances of the ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

A global abuse tracker has released a list of 84 priests accused of sexual abuse in the Philippines, alleging that they ...

Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the ...

A French Catholic priest, he wrote a book recounting horrors committed by the Khmer Rouge that were responsible for the deaths of almost two million people.

Thailand is set to legalise same-sex marriage - one of the few places in Asia to do so. Why is it an outlier? Twin lost control of bike in Thailand - inquest A man who died in Thailand lost ...

While attending the inauguration of a new village, Hun Manet broke his silence on the death of Lim Kimya, a dual French-Khmer ...

It is almost certainly going to pass because the ruling Cambodian People’s Party holds 120 of the 125 seats in the National Assembly. The draft was issued three months ahead of the 50th anniversary of ...

The machine looks like a medieval trebuchet, its heavy timber lengths penduluming up and down under the power of the two ...