Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday he was convinced that his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, had entered into a questionable “secret agreement” with Beijing on the South China Sea, ...

A Malaysian-led international peace monitoring group has departed from the southern Philippines after the administration of Rodrigo Duterte, who left office late last month, decided their presence was ...

Indonesia’s defense ministry has not signed any new documents to purchase weapons from Russia, it said in a statement. Last week, Russian media reported that Jakarta sent an official request for ...

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 ...

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 stockpile of more than 200 U.S. artillery shells from the Second World War discovered at a school in the Solomon Islands capital has been safely removed. Honiara is estimated to be littered with ...

Philippine tourism officials announced Monday they were terminating a contract with an ad agency after it used stock images from other countries for a nearly U.S. $1 million campaign to promote the ...

Deadly clashes in Bangladesh last week highlighted frustration with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year hold on power. It all began when university students started protesting a June decision by ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last reliable national census for Papua New Guinea (PNG) was conducted 24 years ago, therefore the 2024 census is critical. But early signs suggest the latest attempt to count the country’s ...

Muhammad Arif Rofiudin spent 27 years meticulously maintaining machines that wove traditional sarongs at a garment factory in Pekalongan, a Central Java city that is one of Indonesia’s textile hubs.