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 ...

Physician Pittaya Lhawong often travels far and wide from his hospital to make house calls and treat patients in remote corners of Mae Hong Son province. He’s among a younger generation of doctors who ...

“Waew,” 59, is no stranger to risks. As a sex worker in Thailand’s capital for almost three decades, “Waew,” who declined to give her real name for privacy reasons, said she worked from 4 p.m. to ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday he was convinced that his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, had entered into a questionable “secret agreement” with Beijing on the South China Sea, ...

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 ...

Thai police on Wednesday said they were searching for a third suspect who they believe masterminded last week’s fatal shooting of a prominent critic of the Cambodian government. The suspect, Ly ...

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 ...

Wearing her glasses and trademark printed scarf, former Sen. Leila de Lima waded patiently through university students who mobbed her as she left a campaign stop in the northern Philippines. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The trial of impeached Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte cannot be rushed and will only begin in June, the Senate’s president said, while analysts described it as a political numbers game likely ...

Jakarta’s feisty response last week to the Chinese coast guard “disrupting” Indonesian survey activities in the North Natuna Sea appears to show that new President Prabowo Subianto has shed his ...