http://indochinatoday.com/ en-us Sat, 19 May 2012 12:02:02 -0400 editor@technologyinnovator.com http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23410&sectionID=292 The U.S. Embassy encourages people in Vietnam to visit their doctor to learn about being vaccinated against the influenza virus. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has supported... Thu, 17 May 2012 09:18:17 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23352&sectionID=288 A new film, Father's House, sponsored by the Burmese comedian and political activist, Zarganar, hopes to raise the plight of Burmese migrant workers to a wider audience - especially to... Thu, 17 May 2012 02:45:19 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23350&sectionID=288 The wife of a Vietnamese-American pro-democracy activist jailed in Vietnam gives testimony before a congressional human rights commission in Washington. RFA [Mai Huong Ngo testifies before the Tom Lantos Human... Thu, 17 May 2012 02:35:22 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23349&sectionID=288 China and the Philippines back away from a confrontation in the South China Sea. Photo: RFA   A long-running dispute with the Philippines over an island in the South China... Thu, 17 May 2012 02:31:34 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23348&sectionID=288 Fighting between the rebels and government troops continues in Burma’s northern border region. AFP [A Kachin Independence Army soldier looks through binoculars at Burmese army positions from an outpost near... Thu, 17 May 2012 02:28:04 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23347&sectionID=288 Ieng Sary is treated for breathing problems, calling his case into question. RFA [Ieng Sary attends a court session, May 17, 2012.] The former foreign minister of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge... Thu, 17 May 2012 02:24:56 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23346&sectionID=288 Nearly 30 sailors are held for ransom while fishing off of the coast of northeast China. AFP [South Korean coastguard commandos board Chinese fishing boats accused of fishing in South... Thu, 17 May 2012 02:23:09 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23345&sectionID=288 Washington announces a new ambassador and suspends restrictions as a reward for reforms. AFP [Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin (l) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (r) at... Thu, 17 May 2012 02:07:03 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23343&sectionID=288 Residents of an apartment complex in southern China accuse their management of corruption. Photo courtesy of Tsang [Residents of the Jingcheng Garden apartment complex stage a protest outside local government... Thu, 17 May 2012 02:04:34 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23185&sectionID=288 Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak arrived here Wednesday to begin a working visit to New York, aimed at strengthening and broadening Malaysia's relations with the world's largest economy, the United... Wed, 16 May 2012 12:32:17 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23184&sectionID=292 Cambodia reported 1,500 cases of a new strain of dengue fever in the last twelve months, a senior health official said Wednesday. No deaths related to the virus have been... Wed, 16 May 2012 12:31:26 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23183&sectionID=386 The saying goes, "Strike the iron while it is hot." Similarly, when it comes to teaching a child, it is better to start cultivating good values at an early and... Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:05 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23182&sectionID=290 Vietnam's second satellite, the VINASAT-2, roared off the launch pad aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 22:13 GMT Tuesday from Guiana Space Centre at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French... Wed, 16 May 2012 12:28:08 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23181&sectionID=288 The Indian High Commission here will relocate to Level 28, Menara 1 Mon’t Kiara, No. 1, Jalan Mon’t Kiara from its present Jalan Taman Duta premises beginning Monday. It said... Wed, 16 May 2012 12:26:10 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23351&sectionID=288 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Secretariat and the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank signed an agreement for the World Bank to provide advisory services to... Wed, 16 May 2012 02:40:58 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23344&sectionID=288 Hundreds of security personnel force villagers to evacuate land in eastern Cambodia. RFA [Military police round up residents of Broma village, May 16, 2012.] Security forces in eastern Cambodia fatally... Wed, 16 May 2012 02:05:49 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23342&sectionID=288 A seasonal ban on fishing in disputed waters in the South China Sea goes into effect. RFA China's territorial claim to the South China Sea includes two disputed island chains.... Wed, 16 May 2012 02:03:16 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23341&sectionID=288 A new French study on the Mekong dam predicts no environmental impact, a senior Lao official says. RFA Activists protest the Xayaburi dam in front of the Ch. Karnchang headquarters... Wed, 16 May 2012 02:01:57 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23340&sectionID=288 Chinese authorities move to restrict expressions of Tibetan culture and identity. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener. An undated photo of students at the orphanage school in Luchu county which... Tue, 15 May 2012 02:00:49 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23339&sectionID=288 The activist wonders when he will be able to leave China for the US as promised. AFP [Plainclothes security on April 28, 2012 monitor the entrance to Dongshigu Village in... Tue, 15 May 2012 01:59:11 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23338&sectionID=288 Villagers in southeastern China say corrupt officials stole from their compensation packages. AFP [Chinese villagers protest government land seizures in Guilin, Guangxi province, Oct. 9, 2010.] Authorities in the southeastern... Tue, 15 May 2012 01:57:23 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23337&sectionID=288 Beijing says the British prime minister's meeting with the spiritual leader 'seriously' interfered with China's internal affairs. Photo courtesy of the Dalai Lama's office. [The Dalai Lama meets with British... Tue, 15 May 2012 01:52:43 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23336&sectionID=288 US official says relations with Vietnam hinge on improving its rights record.The U.S. State Department expressed “great concern” Tuesday over the deteriorating human rights situation in Vietnam, saying it is... Tue, 15 May 2012 01:46:57 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23335&sectionID=293 Democratic reforms in Burma are not yet irreversible, the opposition leader says.Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi lamented Tuesday that the international community was becoming “too optimistic” about the... Tue, 15 May 2012 01:35:02 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23155&sectionID=288 China's territorial dispute with the Philippines highlights a resource competition and diverging views of history. AFP A Chinese protester backing Beijing's sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal prepares to burn paper... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:17:59 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23154&sectionID=292 Thousands demonstrate over alleged malpractice at a privately-owned clinic in southwestern China. AFP -- Chinese medical workers move a patient from an ambulance to a hospital in Guiyang, July 13,... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:16:50 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23154&sectionID=288 Thousands demonstrate over alleged malpractice at a privately-owned clinic in southwestern China. AFP -- Chinese medical workers move a patient from an ambulance to a hospital in Guiyang, July 13,... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:16:50 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23153&sectionID=288 Thirty-six Uyghurs say their family members have been missing since the Urumqi riots in July 2009. More families of Uyghurs missing in the aftermath of ethnic violence in China's Xinjiang... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:13:46 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23152&sectionID=288 Police detain and beat guests of Chinese activist Qin Yongmin's marriage celebration. Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan disrupted the marriage celebrations of a prominent rights activist at... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:11:59 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23151&sectionID=292 Hundreds of girls in Laos have been trafficked in China over the last two years. AFP -- Three young Laotian girls carry water in a village in Khammouane province, Nov.... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:10:22 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23150&sectionID=288 The World Uyghur Congress’s biennial meeting opens in Japan. AFP Rebiya Kadeer at the opening session of the World Uyghur Congress's biennial meeting in Tokyo, May 14, 2012. Ethnic Uyghurs... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:09:09 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23149&sectionID=288 President Lee Myung Bak on Monday became the first South Korean leader to visit Burma in the nearly three decades since a North Korean attempt to assassinate his predecessor in... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:07:14 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23148&sectionID=285 Real estate in the Lao capital explodes in value. Real estate prices are soaring in Laos’s capital, Vientiane, residents say, as the city develops at a rapid pace. AFP --... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:03:41 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22990&sectionID=287 The ASEAN Secretariat is organising an "ASEAN Drawing Contest" from May to July 2012 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of ASEAN on 8 August 2012. Entitled "ASEAN: One Community, One... Mon, 14 May 2012 00:52:29 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22989&sectionID=286 Dozens of Indonesian and Russian experts scaled through a remote mountainside searching for the flight recorders of a Russian jet that crashed killing all 45 people onboard. Sunday's search centered... Sun, 13 May 2012 00:46:56 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22989&sectionID=288 Dozens of Indonesian and Russian experts scaled through a remote mountainside searching for the flight recorders of a Russian jet that crashed killing all 45 people onboard. Sunday's search centered... Sun, 13 May 2012 00:46:56 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22089&sectionID=288 Search teams in Indonesia have begun retrieving the bodies of passengers who were on a jetliner that slammed into the side of a volcano Wednesday but the cause of the... Sat, 12 May 2012 12:12:00 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22083&sectionID=287 What's it like to be stuck between worlds - to feel like you're neither one thing nor another?  That's the situation Pete Pin finds himself in.  Pin is a Cambodian-American... Sat, 12 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22090&sectionID=290 Search crews are slowly making progress on a remote and dormant volcano in Indonesia, recovering the remains of victims of a deadly and mysterious plane crash. More bags containing body... Sat, 12 May 2012 04:00:00 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=23353&sectionID=288 CHIANGMAI, Thailand - During decades of political repression in Burma, many activists fled abroad, building lives in exile while working for democratic change. Despite Burma's political reforms over the past... Sat, 12 May 2012 02:47:51 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22942&sectionID=288 USS George Washington (CVN 73) departed Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, May 12 to conduct sea trials in preparation for the ship's next patrol. George Washington sailed from its Truman Bay... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:22:44 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22941&sectionID=288 As the globe’s preeminent maritime power, the United States has much to gain in ratifying the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said here... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:21:24 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22940&sectionID=288 Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force combat shooting detachment began firing during the Australian Army Skills at Arms Meeting 2012 here May 7. In its 25th iteration, the AASAM is... Fri, 11 May 2012 13:16:39 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22099&sectionID=288 1. The ASEAN Labour Ministers and their counterparts from People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (the Plus Three Countries) gathered in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 11... Fri, 11 May 2012 12:16:42 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22084&sectionID=288 Activists opposed to China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea marched on the Chinese embassy in Manila Friday, further escalating the two countries’ territorial dispute. Photo: AP [Protesters march... Fri, 11 May 2012 12:01:56 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22082&sectionID=288 Chinese authorities file 'serious charges' in an apparent reprisal. AFP Elderly petitioners protesting about medical and land grab issues are detained by police outside the Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing where... Fri, 11 May 2012 11:57:33 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22081&sectionID=288 The mother of a Uyghur detained three years ago describes her attempts to locate him. The mother of a Uyghur man missing for nearly three years after he participated in... Fri, 11 May 2012 11:56:08 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22080&sectionID=288 Villagers are beaten while being evicted from their homes to make way for an industrial park. Photo courtesy of blogger nguyenxuandien [A photo from a citizen journalist shows the clashes... Fri, 11 May 2012 11:54:32 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22079&sectionID=286 Tour companies in China halt their services as tensions heat up over a disputed island. AFP Activists hold a protest in front of the Chinese Consular Office in Manila, April... Fri, 11 May 2012 11:52:39 -0400 http://indochinatoday.com/index.php?articleID=22079&sectionID=288 Tour companies in China halt their services as tensions heat up over a disputed island. AFP Activists hold a protest in front of the Chinese Consular Office in Manila, April... Fri, 11 May 2012 11:52:39 -0400