A hydropower project in the Indonesian part of Borneo is forging ahead despite recent setbacks, including the withdrawal of key international partners PowerChina and Sumitomo, according to the local ...

A New Zealand official mediating talks between the leaders of Papua New Guinea and the independence-seeking Bougainville region said he was optimistic about resolving a dispute over the ...

Critics are slamming the Philippine government for allowing what they called Chinese propaganda to be aired on a state-run radio station at a time when the country is pushing back against Beijing’s ...

One day in early April 2012, a Philippine naval surveillance plane spotted eight Chinese fishing boats inside Scarborough Shoal, a triangular chain of reefs around 125 nautical miles (232 kilometers) ...

The threatened deportations from Thailand of a Vietnamese ethnic minority activist and 48 Uyghurs detained after trying to flee China have cast a harsh spotlight on Bangkok. But a flood of war ...

The United States says it will help Thailand and the Philippines with a new civilian nuclear technology to reduce climate-damaging emissions, but experts warn the final products are years away from ...

A video of a drag queen dressed as Jesus Christ and singing a punk rendition of The Lord’s Prayer has gone viral online and caused a public uproar in the staunchly Catholic Philippines. It even ...

Three Chinese workers died in a coal mining tunnel in Indonesia’s South Kalimantan province of suspected gas poisoning, police said Thursday, in another incident highlighting allegedly poor labor ...

An ethnic minority militia force based on Myanmar's border with Thailand is suspected of enabling extensive internet fraud, human trafficking, forced labor and other crimes, and is being enriched by a ...

The United States will spend more than U.S. $864 million (3.5 billion kina) on infrastructure and military training in Papua New Guinea over 10 years under a defense deal signed between the two ...

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.

It was a clear day when Kham set out from his home in northwestern Laos for what he thought was a chance to make money in the gilded gambling towns of the Golden Triangle, the border region his ...