It is too early for the Philippine government to declare victory against communist rebels who have been waging a bloody insurgency for decades, a conflict monitoring group said in a report Friday, ...

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 ...

Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday ordered the progressive Move Forward Party disbanded and banned its top leaders from politics for 10 years over promises it made during the 2023 electoral ...

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 ...

Malaysia has been rocked by one of the worst sexual child abuse scandals in her history. More than 500 children have been rescued from multiple charity homes run by a Malaysian conglomerate, Global ...

Malaysia said Thursday it “nicely” told visiting American officials that it would not kowtow to sanctions the United States or any other country imposes on Iran ...

The U.S. military downed a ballistic target for the first time from Guam in a missile test, which Pentagon officials called a “critical milestone” in protecting the western Pacific from potential ...

Malaysia’s leader warned on Thursday that any actions to impede the economic rise of China would upset Beijing enough that it would heighten tensions in the region. Alluding to increasing Chinese ...

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) ...

Deadly fighting has broken out in the southern Philippines between government forces and members of a former Muslim guerrilla group that signed a peace deal with Manila in 2014, officials said ...

Nasir Rahman, an opposition activist from Dhaka’s Rampura neighborhood, died in a hospital bed a year ago after suffering from cirrhosis of the liver. But if a police complaint seen by BenarNews is to ...

José do Santos was once a construction foreman in Dili who oversaw the rise of buildings symbolizing Timor-Leste’s progress after its triumphant vote for independence from Indonesia nearly 25 years ...