Papua New Guinea security personnel shot and killed two alleged illegal miners and reportedly wounded three others in weekend clashes at the Porgera gold mine in the restive Enga highlands province.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Waew,” 59, is no stranger to risks. As a sex worker in Thailand’s capital for almost three decades, “Waew,” who declined to give her real name for privacy reasons, said she worked from 4 p.m. to ...

As a proud naturalized citizen of Vanuatu, I am fond of my green passport with the country’s flag emblazoned on its corner. An added benefit is that it offers visa-free access to the 27 countries that ...

Hundreds of residents in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have sought shelter in a church after clashes between security forces and Papuan independence fighters left two insurgents, a soldier and a ...

Landowners have warned they fear further deaths and violence at the Porgera gold mine if the Papua New Guinea government does not relocate them as part of a state of emergency declared on Wednesday. A ...

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 ...

Ten years on, the legacy left in Thailand by the coup of May 22, 2014 continues to shape the political landscape. Elections may have been restored, but Thai democracy has not yet recovered, analysts ...