Tag: Southeast Asia

Australian military spy planes will start flying missions over the southern Philippines to help in the fight against Islamic militants ...

Thai wildlife officers have arrested a Malaysian man attempting to smuggle two baby orangutans, 51 tortoises and six raccoons into ...

Islamic militants launched a day-long assault on a southern Philippine village Wednesday during which they held 31 people hostage inside ...

Islamic militants occupied a primary school and took hostages in a southern Philippine village on Wednesday, a few hours drive ...

In squalid camps in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence and persecution in neighbouring Myanmar dream ...

Singapore will not be rushed into extending its contract with Formula One, the trade ministry said Tuesday as negotiations for ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologised Tuesday for a military offensive that has left the nation's main Muslim city in ruins, ...

A Muslim border security officer in Singapore has been arrested for planning to fight in Syria, officials said Tuesday. Muhammad ...

Philippine troops pounded Islamist militants holding parts of southern Marawi city with air strikes and artillery Saturday as more soldiers ...

Tightly-ruled Singapore was rocked by an unprecedented political drama Wednesday when a feud between the children of the late founding ...

Tightly-ruled Singapore was rocked by an unprecedented political drama Wednesday when a feud between the children of the late founding ...

An Australian nurse denied running an illegal surrogacy service in Cambodia when her trial began Tuesday, the first case of ...

Indonesia has reached an agreement with Google over payment of taxes, the country's finance minister said Tuesday, after a long-running ...

Malaysian customs officers have seized almost 300 kilograms of pangolin scales being smuggled through the main airport, officials said on ...

Peat bogs in tropical forests, long key outlets for greenhouse gases, could dry up due to farming and global warming, ...

US forces are providing the Philippines with technical assistance to end a siege of the southern town of Marawi by ...

Nine Filipinos who were part of an armed group that invaded and occupied part of Malaysian Borneo in 2013, in ...

Six Indonesian militants were jailed Wednesday for harbouring two Uighurs who entered the country to fight with extremists linked to ...

A Philippine lawmaker on Tuesday appealed to the International Criminal Court to urgently probe thousands of killings in President Rodrigo ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday ordered the military to "crush" Islamist militants still occupying parts of a southern city, ...