Deadly clashes in Bangladesh last week highlighted frustration with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year hold on power. It all began when university students started protesting a June decision by ...

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s plan to cap a PM’s time in office to two five-year terms is facing pushback, with Malaysia’s largest faith-based party rejecting the move and framing it as a threat to ...

Restrictions on journalists covering an upcoming summit of Commonwealth nations in Samoa are “ridiculous” and at odds with a government that purportedly values democracy, the Pacific island country’s ...

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 ...

In his first public testimony as a private citizen, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte defiantly defended his administration’s war on drugs, saying he alone bore responsibility for it. While ...

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 ...

About one-fifth of Bangladesh’s ready-made garment factories do not meet fire, electrical and structural safety standards 11 years after the collapse of Rana Plaza that left more than 1,100 garment ...

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 ...

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 ...

Consensus has been reached by Pacific leaders with Japan to address the controversial release of treated nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. In August ...

One of the best Pacific Ocean locations to witness a stunning abundance of tropical fish, sharks and corals is also the least expected – Bikini Atoll, a site of U.S. nuclear tests in the middle of the ...

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said Wednesday that Indonesia would appeal a World Trade Organization ruling, which said Jakarta’s 2014 ban on nickel ore exports wasn’t justified because the country ...