The Pacific’s peak diplomatic bodies have signaled they are ready to engage with Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Government of Bougainville as mediation begins on the delayed ratification of its ...

Outraged Philippine citizens have been taking to social media to dispute online claims that Palawan province, where Beijing and Manila are at loggerheads over a disputed reef, was historically part of ...

Vanuatu has taken a leading role in a bloc of nations fighting to keep marine environment protection on the main agenda of the U.N. organization responsible for developing global regulations for ...

The United States must consider a formal apology and full reparation to Marshall Islands citizens whose human rights have been violated by the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, U.N. rights ...

A Philippine court convicted four police officers Tuesday for killing a father and his son in 2016, putting the total number of police successfully prosecuted for their involvement in former President ...

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 ...

Indonesia’s ambitious push toward clean energy is facing new uncertainty after the United States again withdrew from the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit the rise of global temperatures from ...

Indigenous Orang Asli people who live in two villages in Kelantan are suing the government of the northern Malaysian state for allegedly allowing firms to run mining, logging and plantation operations ...

Philippine authorities suspended a scientific survey in the disputed South China Sea after its fisheries vessels faced “harassment” from China’s coast guard and navy. Vessels from the Philippine ...

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 ...

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 ...

After decades of leading the opposition in Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim took the oath as the nation’s 10th prime minister on Thursday after the king appointed him PM in resolving an impasse from an ...