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For the past four years, Thailand has been under military rule, after the junta deposed of Yingluck Shinawatra from power in 2014. The current prime minister, Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha, is a career military man who has repeatedly postponed elections. But pressure grows as Thailand enters its fifth year without a democratically elected civilian government. "There’s a phrase in Thai

Singapore's broadcast and print media have long been under the government's control, while the Internet remains the last place where news outlets can function independently. But the government's recent proposal of a new law to combat online fake news -- which will join a whole litany of existing laws regulating free speech -- has civil society and journalists worried. Especially si

This Sunday is Cambodia's national elections. The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) will go up against 19 other smaller political parties to fight for parliamentary seats. But the country's main opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), will be missing from the ballot. "You can freak people out, you can scare them. They might get a little more quiet than they

A humanitarian crisis rages in northern Myanmar. Hundred of thousands of Rohingya people, a Muslim minority group, have been fleeing Rakhine State since August 2017. Today, more than 700,000 new Rohingya refugees have flooded into refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. "Maybe it’s also something that haunts me because I am German. And the generation of my grandparents has gone