Manila deploys coast guard ship to counter China patrols

> The Philippines said on Sunday (Jan 12) that it had deployed a coast guard ship to challenge Chinese patrol boats attempting to "alter the existing status quo" of the disputed South China Sea.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/south-china-sea-philippines-coast-guard-chinese-patrol-vessels-4852681 #SouthChinaSea #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #Philippines #China

https://www.europesays.com/1755809/ Malaysia and Japan to develop green energy projects, Ishiba eyes defence ties #AnwarIbrahim #ASEAN #CarbonCapture #Energy #Gaza #HydrogenEnergy #Ishiba #japan #KualaLumpur #Malaysia #Myanmar #Petronas #Putrajaya #Sarawak #SouthChinaSea #SoutheastAsia

The #Myanmar air force has bombed a fishing village in Rakhine state killing 41 civilians and wounding 52, most of them Rohingya Muslims, residents involved in rescue work said on Thursday, in an attack insurgents condemned as a war crime.

> Military planes bombed Kyauk Ni Maw village on the coast in Ramree township on Wednesday afternoon sparking huge fires that destroyed about 600 homes, residents said, sending clouds of black smoke up over the sea. https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/bengali/myanmar-junta-bombs-rohingya-muslim-village-killing-41-rescuers-say-01092025080025.html #SouthEastAsia

The fact that the deaths of six tourists (all westerners) in #SoutheastAsia (#Laos) is a far bigger story than the 174 #Rohingya who died when their boat sank last week says a lot about how the world values some lives over others.

Both were, technically, groups of travelers. One made up of privileged members, with western passports, whose deaths will likely results in extensive investigation.

The others, nameless, unwanted stateless #refugees left to fend for themselves.

North #Vietnamese #activists meet in the #NamCan forest, wearing #masks to hide their identities from one another in case of capture and interrogation (1972).
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#AsianMastodon #USVietnamInvasion #Vietnam #VietnamWar #TootSEA #WorldHistory #VietnameseHistory #SouthEastAsia #SouthAsianHistory #History #ResistanceWomen

The videos posted to Facebook all have the same look and feel: The subject looks directly at the camera, joins his hands in a sampeah – a #Cambodian gesture of respect – and apologizes.

Examples from last month – Cambodian #journalist Mech Dara and overseas #activist Hay Vanna – were just the latest additions to a long list of activists and #critics forced by #threats or legal action to recant and pledge their loyalty to the ruling #CambodianPeoplesParty (CPP).

Those are some of the most high-profile instances. Several other opposition activists told #RadioFreeAsia that they were forced to pledge allegiance to the ruling party to maintain the safety of their family or to avoid politically motivated criminal charges.

https://www.rfa.org/english/cambodia/2024/11/17/cambodia-opposition-defections/

#AsianMastodon #PoliticalBlackmail #Censorship #Coercion #Cambodia #Dissenters #WarOnActivists #TootSEA #AsiaNews #SouthEastAsia #Defectors

Professor Zachary Abuza, an expert on South-east Asian security, warned of a “revitalisation of #TerrorNetworks, renewed terror attacks, #Radicalisation and fund-raising for militant groups” serving as “a catalyst for... disparate #jihadist groups in #SouthEastAsia that are seeking both a cause and charismatic leader to rally around”. #Israel #ASEAN

#Washington ‘risks losing the street’ in Muslim S-E Asia as #Gaza war stirs anti-US sentiments | The Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/washington-risks-losing-the-street-in-muslim-s-e-asia-as-gaza-war-stirs-anti-us-sentiments