A Philippine tanker carrying 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel sank in Manila Bay on Thursday in rough seas, creating an oil spill and leaving a crew member dead. Heavy rains caused by Typhoon ...

Sara Duterte radiated confidence and smiled as the Philippine vice president addressed reporters, saying she would survive a political storm from her impeachment this week for alleged corruption and ...

Palauan Sharla Paules surveys the contaminated ground of her lush tropical home island of Peleliu, still littered with WWII munitions 80 years after its liberation from the Japanese. She recalls as a ...

A visit by the head of the Catholic Church Pope Francis to a small remote town in north-west Papua New Guinea has seen an historic opening of the land border with Indonesia. Fifteen buses from ...

Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation as it prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence. Nine people were ...

The Filipino military said Wednesday that it had identified the Islamic State extremist group’s new emir for Southeast Asia as the leader of a local militant faction being targeted in an offensive ...

For the past few days, Filipinos had waited anxiously to see if President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. would cooperate with the International Criminal Court and have police under his watch execute an arrest ...

Major social media and technology platforms purged millions of hoax posts in the run-up to last month’s elections in Indonesia, the country’s minister of communication and information technology said ...

So-called freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) that the U.S. Navy has been carrying out against China’s extensive maritime claims in the South China Sea, have proved ineffective and even risk ...

Troop levels in Thailand’s conflict-ridden Deep South are at their lowest level since peak deployment nine years ago, through a gradual draw-down accompanied by the shifting of security responsibility ...

The U.S. Treasury Department has issued sanctions against three Thailand-based Chinese nationals for their alleged role in a cybercrime operation that took control of Americans’ computers to secure ...

Muhammad Arif Rofiudin spent 27 years meticulously maintaining machines that wove traditional sarongs at a garment factory in Pekalongan, a Central Java city that is one of Indonesia’s textile hubs.