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 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 ...

A West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) rebel commander claimed responsibility for an attack that killed a teacher and injured six others in Indonesia’s Papua region. Gunmen stormed a housing ...

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 ...

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, ...

In a show of unity – and the briefest of moments caught on camera – Pope Francis and the grand imam of the largest mosque in Southeast Asia traded kisses. Nasaruddin Umar, the imam, leaned over to ...

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 ...

Albert del Rosario, the Philippines’ former top diplomat who successfully led the country in its international arbitration case over a territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea, died on ...

Aid agencies operating in the Pacific are still scrambling to assess the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order freezing billions of dollars in foreign aid last week. The ...

Indonesia’s presidential and legislative elections this month were the worst since the country’s democratic transition, two watchdog groups have said, citing issues ranging from campaign finance to ...

At 7:59 a.m. (local time) on the day after Christmas in 2004, the third-largest earthquake ever recorded struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, unleashing a deadly tsunami on millions of ...

As Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo prepares to exit office in October, his decade-long leadership is coming in for a reckoning. On the verge of completing the maximum-allowed two ...