Papua New Guinea security personnel shot and killed two alleged illegal miners and reportedly wounded three others in weekend clashes at the Porgera gold mine in the restive Enga highlands province.

A Cambodian man who is wanted by Thai police in connection to the murder of a former opposition lawmaker is the brother of Pich Sros, a politician who initiated proceedings against the opposition ...

Anti-junta rebels and allied forces on the Thailand-Myanmar border have driven out the military’s last battalion from a major trade hub in Myanmar’s Kayin state, the ethnic Karen National Union said ...

Palauan tourism official Lelly Obakerbau shakes her head and motions at the encroaching jungle that threatens to reclaim an ancient and largely unknown Pacific archaeological site. “If we don’t keep ...

A visit by the head of the Catholic Church Pope Francis to a small remote town in north-west Papua New Guinea has seen an historic opening of the land border with Indonesia. Fifteen buses from ...

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 ...

The governor of Sulu has declared it to be free of Abu Sayyaf militants, but analysts warn that the group’s top leaders remain at large while private armies hired by politicians strike fear among ...

Indonesia’s presidential and legislative elections this month were the worst since the country’s democratic transition, two watchdog groups have said, citing issues ranging from campaign finance to ...

So-called freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) that the U.S. Navy has been carrying out against China’s extensive maritime claims in the South China Sea, have proved ineffective and even risk ...

The European Union and two United Nations agencies launched an initiative Wednesday to end child labor at palm oil plantations in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. Nearly 20,000 children work in ...

In response to a question during a televised debate in December 2023, then-Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto stated that he would send more troops to deal with an insurgency in Papua.

Activists and leaders from Malaysia’s oil-rich states on Borneo island have been ratcheting up demands for greater autonomy and funding under a six-decade-old agreement tied to the nation’s founding.