The climate for freedom of secular thought in Bangladesh remains bleak a decade after religious zealots murdered blogger Avijit Roy as he left a literary festival in Dhaka, family members, researchers ...

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 ...

José do Santos pernah menjadi saksi kemajuan Timor Leste. Sebagai mandor konstruksi di Dili, ia terlibat dalam pembangunan gedung-gedung yang menandai era baru setelah melepaskan diri dari Indonesia ...

Daya Anagata Nusantara (Danantara), a new state investment management body launched by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, aims to boost the nation’s economy. The announcement on Monday fulfilled a ...

The Philippines has created a task force to investigate an alleged deepfake video released by supporters of ex-leader Rodrigo Duterte in the United States apparently showing President Ferdinand Marcos ...

Thai authorities extradited a Malaysian businessman to China on fraud charges worth nearly U.S. $14 billion that were tied to an alleged crypto-currency pyramid scheme, the Chinese government and a ...

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 ...

Indonesian environmental advocates have criticized a law change giving religious organizations permission to manage mining concessions revoked from companies, saying the groups’ inexperience in ...

The rare public caning of a man under Sharia laws in the religiously conservative Malaysian state of Terengganu was criticized by rights advocates as “inhuman” and a step backward in this multi-ethnic ...

Even by Cambodian standards, it was a brazen attack on an opposition figure. Lim Kimya, a 73-year old member of the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party, or CNRP, was gunned down by an assassin in ...