Myanmar's increasingly confident military regime has barred imprisoned opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from running in the proposed 2010 elections. [more]
As businesses turn their attention to emerging markets in Africa, Southeast Asia and other regions, rapid growth rates threaten to outstrip fragile or underdeveloped energy grids. Marla Dial and Davis Cherry investigate. [more]
Thailand's military regime has failed to quell the Islamist insurgency in the country's south. But, says Colin Chapman, the problems are complex and go beyond ethnic grievances. [more]