Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is in custody after authorities in his home country arrested him on a warrant from the International Criminal Court and put him on a plane bound for the ...

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 ...

Malaysia's oil-rich Sarawak is set to make history as the country's first state to gain full control of its oil and gas resources under a legal framework tied to a 1963 agreement by which it joined ...

Faced with the daunting task of reclaiming neighborhoods, beachfront properties and areas around mosques, repairs began quickly in sections of Indonesia and Thailand devastated by the deadly 2004 ...

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 ...

Parts of Suva harbor in Fiji resemble a ship graveyard with more than two dozen rusting and unseaworthy vessels abandoned due to financial problems by their foreign owners and enabled by policy ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s plan to cap a PM’s time in office to two five-year terms is facing pushback, with Malaysia’s largest faith-based party rejecting the move and framing it as a threat to ...

Chulabhorn Pattana 12, a village in southern Thailand near Malaysia, was once a stronghold for Malaysian communist rebels, but veterans of the insurgency who stayed on and their descendants have ...

Polygamy, still practiced in some parts of Papua New Guinea, symbolized wealth and status in the country’s so-called “big man” culture. The greater the fortune a man accumulated, the more wives he ...

A second day of protests rocked Bangladesh as people took to the streets Tuesday to demand justice for sexual assault after a video posted online on Sunday showed a group of men stripping, beating and ...

A conservative Islamic movement has come under international scrutiny after a mass gathering it organized in Malaysia emerged as a source of hundreds of coronavirus infections in more than half a ...