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 ...

At Timor-Leste's museum of memory, Hugo Fernandes supervises exhibits chronicling resistance and oppression during the Indonesian occupation – an era when Prabowo Subianto, now Indonesia's ...

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, ...

The Papua New Guinea government’s push for news organizations to become its cheer-leading squad is under further scrutiny this week as parliament hears testimony from journalists and top officials.

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 ...

It is too early for the Philippine government to declare victory against communist rebels who have been waging a bloody insurgency for decades, a conflict monitoring group said in a report Friday, ...

China has announced the baselines of its territorial sea around the Scarborough Shoal to strengthen its claim over the South China Sea feature that lies within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone ...

Maridar binti Anwar memang tak lagi bekerja. Di usianya yang menginjak 75 tahun, dia dihidupi tiga putranya. Mereka sudah berumah tangga dan punya anak, meski ada yang sudah pisah. Maridar tinggal di ...

More than 1,000 students in Indonesia’s restive Papua region took to the streets to protest a government-sponsored free-meal program, demanding that the government instead prioritize free education.

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 ...

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 ...

North Korea’s launch of a “new” intermediate range ballistic missile earlier this week that “will reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific” has fired up debate about the U.S. military’s ability to ...