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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dengan memakai pelitup muka dan tangan disilangkan di atas meja, seorang tukang rumah berumur 42 tahun selesai menjalani hukuman enam sebatan syariah dalam tempoh dua minit di dewan sebuah masjid di ...

Ketika menjawab sebuah pertanyaan saat debat pemilihan presiden Desember tahun lalu, calon presiden Prabowo Subianto mengatakan bahwa dia akan mengerahkan lebih banyak pasukan untuk menangani ...

A suspected member of a terrorist cell that allegedly once plotted deadly bomb attacks with the Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf has surrendered to the Philippine military in southern Zamboanga city, ...

The sudden change in prime minister at the top of Thailand’s government will have little impact on southern peace talks because the ruling party has never made this a priority. The Pheu Thai Party ...

The Philippines is recruiting a new breed of “cyber warriors” to tackle rising digital threats, the nation’s armed forces chief said Thursday, following a wave of online attacks. Gen. Romeo Brawner ...

A conservative Islamic movement has come under international scrutiny after a mass gathering it organized in Malaysia emerged as a source of hundreds of coronavirus infections in more than half a ...

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 ...

Palauan tourism official Lelly Obakerbau shakes her head and motions at the encroaching jungle that threatens to reclaim an ancient and largely unknown Pacific archaeological site. “If we don’t keep ...