More than 1,000 Cambodians attended an emotional re-enactment of a Khmer Rouge massacre at a “Day of Anger” memorial Sunday, demanding swift justice for ex-regime leaders on trial.

Sri Lanka's president has ordered the release of his jailed electoral rival, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, bowing to a U.S. demand three years after the end of the island's long Tamil civil war.

An Australian tug boat Sunday reached a cargo ship which had been drifting off the Great Barrier Reef, as environmentalists warned that greater shipping traffic could harm the world's biggest coral reef.

Vietnamese police have issued an arrest warrant for the former chairman of state-owned shipping firm Vinalines, official media said Sunday, as the scandal rocking the debt-mired company deepens.

Silenced for decades under military rule, Myanmar's workers are now daring to speak out to demand better pay and conditions after a new law gave them the right to strike.

Thailand's “red shirts” took to the street this weekend to mark the anniversary of the army's bloody repression of their mass rally in Bangkok in 2010 amid growing signs of a rift with the government they helped elect last July.

A Montenegrin member of the “Pink Panther” gang of international thieves has been sent home for trial over the US$3.6 million robbery of a Tokyo jewelry shop, Japanese police said Sunday.

One video shows police beating protesters with sticks. Another shows two lifeless, dirty bodies dragged from their workplace in the sewers. In a third, a man explains why his hand was slashed.

Japan was hit by two shallow earthquakes in the space of just eight minutes on Sunday, one of them measuring a strong 6.2-magnitude, but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami alert.

The water supply to tens of thousands of households near Tokyo was cut off Saturday after local checks found it was contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical.