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Dua puluh tahun lalu, sebuah gempa bawah bawah laut di lepas pantai Sumatra memorak-porandakan Banda Aceh. Gelombang air laut setinggi 30 meter meluluhlantakkan kota ini. Lebih dari 167.000 warga Aceh ...

A court in Argentina has ruled that international arrest warrants be issued for Myanmar's self-appointed president and junta chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, and 22 other military officials for ...

At least eight people were killed in the Philippines on Wednesday after heavy rains brought on by a powerful typhoon caused massive flooding, authorities said. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and ...

The separatist insurgency in the mainly Malay Muslim provinces of Thailand’s southern border region just entered its 20th year. Violence in the Deep South inched upwards in 2022, a sign that ...

A Malaysian court found the ex-chairman of a key state-owned land development agency guilty of corruption and sentenced him Wednesday to six years in prison, saying he had abused his power and public ...

One of the best Pacific Ocean locations to witness a stunning abundance of tropical fish, sharks and corals is also the least expected – Bikini Atoll, a site of U.S. nuclear tests in the middle of the ...

“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 ...

Tomas Ojea Quintana is a human rights lawyer who served as U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar between 2008 and 2014. He represents the Burmese Rohingya Organization U.K., which filed a ...

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest on a world court warrant over alleged crimes against humanity has raised the stakes for May midterm elections amid an already volatile political ...

After living in Malaysia for 12 years without proper papers, Ramlah, an Indonesian woman, plans to return home through a voluntary repatriation program for foreign migrants that expires on Dec. 31, or ...

When the first direct tourist flight from China to Samoa landed in the Pacific island country in late May, it was the culmination of years of effort to tap into the potentially lucrative Chinese ...