A senator called Wednesday for an inquiry into how the Philippines could strengthen control of its South China Sea territory, as the coast guard released footage from a standoff between Filipino and Chinese ships in disputed waters a day earlier. …
A Chinese mining company in northern Laos’ Luang Prabang province has detained as many as 50 villagers for illegally digging gold on their concession and is demanding a ransom for their release, sparking an outcry on social media, according to resident…
A Taiwanese drug lord serving a 52-year-prison sentence who was freed in a brazen raid last week was rearrested on Tuesday, according to Cambodian authorities.
Lt. Gen. Mak Chito, deputy national police commissioner in charge of drug crimes, told…
Myanmar’s junta has sentenced a hip-hop singer to 20 years in prison for a video published on social media in which he complained about electricity shortages and criticized the junta’s leadership.
Prison authorities informed the family of Byu Har that …
This year’s El Niño phenomenon could hasten the disappearance in Indonesia of one of the world’s last remaining tropical glaciers, causing it to be extinct by 2026, the country’s meteorological agency warned on Wednesday.
The glacier on the peak of Pun…