Liam Cochrane is the ABC's South-East Asia correspondent. A former Managing Editor of the Phnom Penh Post, he has hosted Radio Australia's Connect Asia and reported for radio and television across Asia and the Pacific, including as Papua New Guinea correspondent. You can follow him on Twitter @Liam_Cochrane
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A firebrand monk who helped stoke sectarian conflict in Myanmar throws his support behind the controversial Dhammakaya sect in Thailand, which is currently at odds with law enforcement over money laundering allegations.
Topics: buddhism, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, thailand, burma, asia
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| UpdatedA Vietnamese asylum seeker says she faced three months of detention and beatings after being returned by Australian immigration officials.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, refugees, government-and-politics, communism, indonesia, vietnam, asia
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Cambodia's authoritarian government changes the law covering political parties, in what some commentators are calling the "final triumph of dictatorship".
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, cambodia, asia
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Thai police searching a sprawling temple complex for the fugitive founder of a controversial Buddhist sect find his hospital bed filled with pillows, arranged to resemble a person sleeping under a blanket.
Topics: buddhism, religion-and-beliefs, police, law-crime-and-justice, thailand
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| UpdatedHundreds of police are searching a giant Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Bangkok in the hunt for a former abbot facing charges of conspiracy to launder money.
Topics: police, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, religion-and-beliefs, buddhism, thailand
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An Australian man who pleaded guilty to carelessly driving his rented jet ski into his girlfriend in Phuket releases an emotional letter explaining his decision and his "unbearable sorrow".
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, community-and-society, thailand, australia
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Thailand's national Children's Day has come to represent a celebration of the country's military, but not everyone is on board.
Topics: children, defence-forces, thailand
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| UpdatedAustralian kickboxer Antonio Bagnato will lodge an appeal after being sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of a former Hell's Angels bikie and suspected drug trafficker in Thailand.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, death, thailand, australia
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| UpdatedAn Australian man whose girlfriend was killed when their jet skis collided in Thailand pleads guilty to a charge of recklessly causing death.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, thailand, australia
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Thai police charge an Australian man over a jet ski collision in Phuket that killed his 20-year-old girlfriend.
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| UpdatedThe Myanmar military may have killed "thousands" of Rohingya Muslims in a campaign of rape and destruction described as ethnic cleansing by the United Nations.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, religion-and-beliefs, world-politics, refugees, burma
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Antonio Bagnato, the kickboxer convicted of murdering a suspected drug kingpin in Pattaya, is the first Australian on death row in Thailand in 30 years but experts say he is unlikely to actually face lethal injection.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, international-law, thailand, australia
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| UpdatedA Thai court sentences Antonio Bagnato to death for the kidnapping and murder of former Hells Angels member Wayne Schneider, who was alleged to have been a major drug trafficker.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, thailand
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| UpdatedA 20-year-old Victorian student who died in Thailand after her jet ski collided with one being ridden by her boyfriend is remembered for her "amazing laugh and bubbly personality".
Topics: accidents, thailand, vic, kyabram-3620
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A Thai court extends the pre-trial detention of a law student who shared a BBC profile of King Vajiralongkorn, despite an outcry from academics.
Topics: social-media, laws, law-crime-and-justice, thailand
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| UpdatedThe Australian son of a woman arrested for running a commercial surrogacy business in Cambodia is detained, after reportedly being found disorientated on the streets of Phnom Penh.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, cambodia, australia, asia
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| UpdatedThe death toll from floods in southern Thailand rises to 36 with at least one major hospital, an airport and several highways still closed.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, floods, community-and-society, suicide, mental-health, thailand, pacific, asia
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| UpdatedThailand's PM says the new King is requesting changes to the draft constitution to ensure his royal powers but they have "nothing to do with the rights and freedoms of the people".
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, thailand, asia
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| UpdatedWhen Australian retiree Ray Ingram heard the sad story of a Thai classical guitarist forced to sell her prized instruments to pay for her dying mother's medical treatment, he decided to donate his vintage guitar.
Topics: human-interest, arts-and-entertainment, music, lifestyle-and-leisure, guitar, health, cancer, thailand, australia, asia
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| UpdatedThe Thai Government says it will prosecute nearly 60,000 drink-drivers caught during the New Year period, which claimed 426 lives.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, traffic-offences, police, thailand
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A Cambodian politician is arrested for allegedly driving his car into a police officer, but footage of the incident raises concerns the collision may have been faked.
Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, cambodia
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| UpdatedA court revokes bail for Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, the first person charged with insulting Thailand's new king under the country's lese majesty law.
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, law-crime-and-justice, thailand, asia
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| UpdatedA powerful typhoon blows out of the northern Philippines after killing at least six people and forcing thousands into emergency shelters.
Topics: weather, cyclone, disasters-and-accidents, philippines
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Thailand's army begins dressing kindergarten children in camouflage uniforms and putting them through military drills, in an effort to instil a sense of patriot duty.
Topics: world-politics, children, defence-forces, thailand, asia
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| UpdatedMyanmar has agreed to grant "necessary humanitarian access" to the troubled Rakhine State, after a rare intervention from South-East Asian countries.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, forms-of-government, unrest-conflict-and-war, burma, asia