These elections illustrate a critical truth: Democracy in Southeast Asia endures but remains perilously fragile. The ...

From the late nineteenth century nationalist movements developed across Southeast Asia. Male leaders focused on political independence, but educated women were equally concerned with polygamy, divorce ...

After the death of King Monivong the French colonial authorities selected his grandson Norodom Sihanouk to inherit the throne ...

The countries of Southeast Asia are helping each other intimidate and extradite exiled government critics, according to a ...

While the amnesty included around 600 political prisoners, it should not be taken as a sign of conciliation on the part of ...

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede emphasised his desire to pursue independence from Denmark, its former colonial ruler, ...

Yet since gaining independence in 1948, its economy has struggled ... one of the leading economic historians of Southeast Asia, provides a fresh examination of the country's economic past, thereby ...

The 87-year-old pontiff is on an ambitious 12-day visit to four countries across Southeast Asia and Oceania ... nation north of Australia, gained independence from Indonesia in 2002, after ...