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A file pic from 2013 shows a Fortescue executive at the Solomon iron ore mine in the Pilbara region in Western Australia. Photo: Reuters/David Gray

Australia, Oceania

Big miners to go ahead with new iron-ore mines in Pilbara

by Jim Pollard June 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Hundreds of rescued foreign fishermen, mostly from Myanmar and Thailand, are gathered by Indonesia's illegal fishing taskforce and Thai officials at an Indonesian fishing firm on April 3, 2015, in remote Benjina Island. Photo: AFP/ Ugeng Nugroho/ Ministry of Fishery

AT Finance, Cambodia, European Union, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Asia, Thailand, World

Hundreds of fishermen still stuck in Indonesia, returnees say

by Jim Pollard and Rajat Sethi June 9, 2018February 18, 2020

Thai police take the finger prints of Boonchai Bach. Photo: AsiaWorks

AT Finance, China, Laos, Northeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Key wildlife smuggler gets 2.5 years in jail after rhino haul found

by Jim Pollard May 11, 2018February 18, 2020

A child protects himself against air pollution by wearing a mask over his mouth in China. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Beijing, China, India, Myanmar, South Asia, Thailand, World

Air pollution ‘killing seven million a year, mostly in Asia’

by Jim Pollard March 22, 2018February 18, 2020

News that the Myanmar govt is set to build a series of gas power plants has pleased activists hoping to stop dams being built on the Salween river. Photo: Actions for Shan State Rivers

AT Finance, Beijing, Cambodia, China, Greater Bay Area, Laos, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Myanmar power plans could spare the Salween

by Jim Pollard February 11, 2018February 18, 2020

U Soe Win, the great grandson of Burma's last king, wants to bring the former monarch's body back from India to Myanmar. Photo: Courtesy Alex Bescoby

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Myanmar, New Zealand, Oceania, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

The right to remember Myanmar’s last king

by Jim Pollard February 10, 2018February 18, 2020

Migrant fishery workers at a port in Mahachai, on the outskirts of Bangkok in a June 30, 2015 file photo. Photo: AFP/ Nicolas Asfouri

AT Finance, Cambodia, European Union, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Thailand, World

Forced labor persists on Thai fishing boats, HRW says

by Jim Pollard January 23, 2018February 18, 2020

Thai police take the finger prints of Boonchai Bach. Photo: AsiaWorks

AT Finance, Laos, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Police announce arrest of notorious wildlife trafficking suspect

by Jim Pollard January 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Photo: Reuters/David Gray

Australia, Beijing, China, Oceania, South Asia, World

All eyes on Sydney by-election after tension in Australia-China ties

by Jim Pollard and Frank Chen December 15, 2017February 18, 2020

A man holds an improvised explosive device in Myanmar. These devices are found in multiple areas in many states in the north, east and west where there has been fighting. Photo: via ICBL/ Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan

Afghanistan, AT Finance, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Middle East, Myanmar, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, World

Myanmar still a serial landmine user, monitor says

by Jim Pollard December 15, 2017February 18, 2020

A Burmese mother holds her child as a health worker gets ready to give another vaccination. Photo: Gavi.

AT Finance, Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Middle East, South Asia, Timor Leste, World

Millions of lives saved, Rohingya refugees and many more

by Asia Times and Jim Pollard December 1, 2017February 18, 2020

Displaced Shan at the Thai-Myanmar border call for the Myanmar military to stop fighting against ethnic groups. Photo: Charm Tong/ Shan Human Rights Group.

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia, Thailand, World

Refugees doubt Myanmar offer to aid displaced Shan on border

by Jim Pollard October 29, 2017February 18, 2020

Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn takes a part in the royal cremation procession of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Grand Palace in Bangkok on October 26, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Damir Sagolj

AT Finance, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, World

Remains of late Thai king collected after night of tears

by Jim Pollard October 26, 2017February 18, 2020

The Golden Triangle is an area of about 950,000 square kilometers that overlaps the mountains of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. Large quantities of methamphetamine are produced here along with opium grown in poor parts of Shan State, which is turned into heroin and smuggled to countries throughout the region. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, Thailand, World

Target Golden Triangle drug lords, not users, UN urges

by Asia Times and Jim Pollard October 12, 2017February 18, 2020

Rohingya refugees stand by the road in the rain outside their camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Germany, Jordan, Middle East, Myanmar, South Asia, Turkey, World

UN looks to Gulf states to save Rohingya refugees

by Reuters and Jim Pollard October 4, 2017February 18, 2020

A file shot of a baby under a mosquito net in the southern Philippines. Scientists in Bangkok have warned that resistance to key anti-malaria drugs has spread across mainland Southeast Asia. Photo: Reuters/ Jorge Silva

AT Finance, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, World

Spread of malaria resistance spurs debate on fighting disease

by Jim Pollard September 26, 2017February 18, 2020

A cage made of barbed wire and bamboo sticks that Malaysian police said was used to hold migrants is seen at an abandoned human trafficking camp in the jungle close to the Thai border. This shot was taken on May 26, 2015, as Malaysian forensic police began the grim task of exhuming bodies of dozens of suspected victims of traffickers found buried around these camps. Photo: Reuters/Damir Sagolj.

AT Finance, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Oceania, South Asia, Thailand

Thai Army general among dozens convicted of trafficking

by Reuters and Jim Pollard July 19, 2017February 18, 2020

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