A second day of protests rocked Bangladesh as people took to the streets Tuesday to demand justice for sexual assault after a video posted online on Sunday showed a group of men stripping, beating and ...

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 ...

Human rights groups in the Philippines expressed grave concern Tuesday over a warning by ex-President Rodrigo Duterte’s son that he would kill drug addicts and pushers – an echo of his father’s ...

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 ...

A proposal by the governor of Jakarta to build an artificial island to help dispose of the city’s 8,000 tons of daily trash is being criticized by environmentalists who say waste needs to be reduced, ...

A video of naked and mutilated corpses being dragged behind a utility vehicle on a highway in the Papua New Guinea highlands shows how escalating tribal conflict is being fueled by political and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cyber scam compounds made international headlines this month after a Chinese actor was rescued from Myanmar’s notorious KK Park. In late December, Wang Xing flew to Mae Sot, Thailand on the promise of ...

When Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko this week declared Australia “our traditional security partner, a partner of choice,” it was a victory of sorts for Canberra’s push to ...

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 ...

Sabina Shoal, located over 75 nautical miles west of the Philippines and 600 miles from China, has become the latest flashpoint between the two rival claimants in the South China Sea. A months-long ...