Small cement cubes made of volcanic ash are spread throughout Joel Maquiling’s lab as the Filipino scientist excitedly explains potential practical uses for the concrete material. Along with two other ...

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 United States on Friday imposed financial sanctions on the notorious Bangladeshi police unit RAB and six of its current and former officers, saying they were responsible for serious human rights ...

On a hilltop accessible only by hours traversing dense jungle on foot, the influential Kimko Jinipjo clan in Indonesia’s Papua region gathered for a rare ceremony called “Awon Atatbon” earlier this ...

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 ...

More than 500 suspected ARSA insurgents are named but list has no further information.

Ever since Nakorn Hindej was a boy, gambling has been a part of his life and local community in northern Thailand. Pok Deng, a card game similar to poker, is popular at social gatherings in his ...

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 ...

Anisur Rahman is a 31-year veteran of Bangladesh’s ship-breaking industry, where workers are paid a pittance for the dangerous job of cutting up old ships with blow torches to salvage their metal for ...

Yai Praiwanaprasert, a corn farmer in northern Thailand, inspects his family’s small field after burning it to clear away crops left over from the harvest. Corn is a primary cash crop in the country’s ...

Chulabhorn Pattana 12, a village in southern Thailand near Malaysia, was once a stronghold for Malaysian communist rebels, but veterans of the insurgency who stayed on and their descendants have ...

Natthineethiti “Nikki” Phinyapincha dreamed of landing a job with an international hotel chain in Thailand, when she returned from Switzerland with a master’s degree in tourism about a decade ago. She ...