After living in Malaysia for 12 years without proper papers, Ramlah, an Indonesian woman, plans to return home through a voluntary repatriation program for foreign migrants that expires on Dec. 31, or ...

Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation as it prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence. Nine people were ...

Debate on Guam’s future as a U.S. territory has intensified with its legislature due to vote on a non-binding resolution to become a U.S. state amid mounting Pacific geostrategic tensions and ...

The Papua New Guinea government’s push for news organizations to become its cheer-leading squad is under further scrutiny this week as parliament hears testimony from journalists and top officials.

Consensus has been reached by Pacific leaders with Japan to address the controversial release of treated nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. In August ...

One day in early April 2012, a Philippine naval surveillance plane spotted eight Chinese fishing boats inside Scarborough Shoal, a triangular chain of reefs around 125 nautical miles (232 kilometers) ...

The United States will spend more than U.S. $864 million (3.5 billion kina) on infrastructure and military training in Papua New Guinea over 10 years under a defense deal signed between the two ...

Pacific island children are experiencing “alarming” violence and abuse, amongst the highest rates in the world, amid a lack of government-funded services, religious and cultural barriers and growing ...

More than 1,000 students in Indonesia’s restive Papua region took to the streets to protest a government-sponsored free-meal program, demanding that the government instead prioritize free education.

In his first public testimony as a private citizen, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte defiantly defended his administration’s war on drugs, saying he alone bore responsibility for it. While ...

At Timor-Leste's museum of memory, Hugo Fernandes supervises exhibits chronicling resistance and oppression during the Indonesian occupation – an era when Prabowo Subianto, now Indonesia's ...

Yai Praiwanaprasert, a corn farmer in northern Thailand, inspects his family’s small field after burning it to clear away crops left over from the harvest. Corn is a primary cash crop in the country’s ...