Southeast Asia News

U.S. officials told NBC News on Saturday they are investigating terrorism concerns after two people listed as passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines jet were reportedly not to on the plane and reported their passports had been stolen - one a year ago and the other two years ago.

Surely the extensive and consistent global media coverage on the re-jailing of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is not in vain.

Vaccine-resistant mutation of H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been confirmed in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh while vaccinated fowls fell sick in central Vietnam.

The veteran stage, film and TV performer best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honeymooners" has died.

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact over the South China Sea early Saturday morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and international aviation authorities still hadn't located the jetliner several hours later.

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The Xinhua News Agency, citing a local Vietnamese media report, says a Vietnamese search and rescue official reported that the signals have been detected from the plane from about 220 kilometers southwest of Vietnam's southernmost coastal province of Ca Mau.

TEHRAN Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Jakarta on Friday called for expansion of cooperation with Iran.

A brand of Taiwanese wine has been awarded a gold medal at the prestigious Vinalies Internationales wine competition held in Paris earlier this week.

An AH-64E Apache attack helicopter was flown to an army base in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, where it will be stationed, the Army said Thursday, after Taiwan's 12 AH-64Es were put back into service last week.

A three-year-old Cambodian boy has died of bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday, in the country's second fatality this year.

"I welcome the agreements reached by the Joint Committee composed of members of the Cambodian People's Party and the Cambodian National Rescue Party to proceed, among other things, on two concrete measures for electoral reform: to review the voter registry and to elaborate a draft law on the financing of political parties," said Surya P. Subedi, ... (more)

Said to be the largest show of its kind in the world, the annual four-day event in England features thousands of dogs, with competitors travelling from countries across the globe to take part.

Overall leader Mirsama Pourseyedigolakhour wore yellow again Thursday morning while awaiting the start of stage 8 at the Tour de Langkawi in Kuantan, Malaysia.

TOMS could be considered the pioneer of the one-for-one model, an idea that has quickly spread to other industries, and could now even become commonplace in the real estate market.

Army commander Prayuth Chan-ocha's tougher stance towards the political stalemate resulted from the so-called "Lanna separatism" issue and now the political mercury is soaring.

Brunei's ruling sultan on Thursday hit back at foreign criticism of the looming implementation of a form of Islamic Shariah law that includes harsh penalties, saying the new penal code was a "great achievement" for the country.

The ongoing crisis in Ukraine is a reminder that small countries must defend themselves and cannot rely solely on international treaties or the promises of others, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday.

Human traffickers have kept hundreds of Rohingya Muslims captive in houses in northern Malaysia, beating them, depriving them of food, and demanding a ransom from their families, according to detailed accounts by the victims.

Two Thai women arrested in Phnom Pehn last year after a cocaine bust at the airport and later charged with smuggling are now on trial in a Cambodian court.