Daya Anagata Nusantara (Danantara), a new state investment management body launched by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, aims to boost the nation’s economy. The announcement on Monday fulfilled a ...

Before fleeing Bangladesh, I went to my hometown of Sylhet to bid my parents goodbye. “I won’t see you again, son,” my elderly father Shafique Ahmed, a retired tea planter, said. “I won’t live until ...

Malaysia has lodged a protest over Vietnam’s island-building program in the South China Sea, in a rare negative exchange between the neighboring Southeast Asian countries, the Reuters news agency ...

A proposal by the governor of Jakarta to build an artificial island to help dispose of the city’s 8,000 tons of daily trash is being criticized by environmentalists who say waste needs to be reduced, ...

A hydropower project in the Indonesian part of Borneo is forging ahead despite recent setbacks, including the withdrawal of key international partners PowerChina and Sumitomo, according to the local ...

Bekas Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Ismail Sabri Yaakob akan dipanggil semula pada Rabu ini bagi membantu siasatan setelah beliau dianggap sebagai suspek kes rasuah berhubung dana kerajaan yang digunakan ...

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 ...

What began as a small fabric shop in Central Java nearly 60 years ago grew into one of Southeast Asia’s biggest textile manufacturers, outfitting military forces and supplying clothing to major global ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping thanked Thailand's visiting prime minister on Thursday for a crackdown on scam centers in Myanmar a day after Thailand cut off electricity and internet services to five ...