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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four Philippine police officers have been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping three Chinese tourists and a Malaysian, officials said Wednesday. Security camera footage released by the interior ...

Seven years after Islamic State militants laid siege to the southern Philippine city of Marawi, tens of thousands of residents remain displaced in squalid villages on the outskirts of the war-torn ...

Papua New Guinea’s autonomous province of Bougainville lost an unlikely supporter in its bid for independence with the death last week of former prime minister Sir Julius Chan. One of the fathers of ...

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) ...

Consensus has been reached by Pacific leaders with Japan to address the controversial release of treated nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. In August ...

Violence marred the eve of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the southern Philippines after suspects from a pro-Islamic State group killed a soldier and wounded another on Wednesday. Troops were ...

The United States will spend more than U.S. $864 million (3.5 billion kina) on infrastructure and military training in Papua New Guinea over 10 years under a defense deal signed between the two ...

A 12-hour gunfight and the torching of a refugee settlement along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border thrust the Rohingya Solidarity Organization, an old armed insurgent group, back into the spotlight. The ...

Indonesia is expected to ratify an agreement with Vietnam on the demarcation of their exclusive economic zones (EEZs) next month, settling a decade-long dispute involving overlapping waters, Indonesia ...