Southeast Asia News

NO, THIS isn't a war-torn area. The dark side of a destination frequented by Australians has been revealed.

The number of asylum-seekers registering in Indonesia has fallen from around 100 a day to 100 a week in recent months, the UN said Thursday, as Australia implemented hardline policies aimed at deterring boatpeople.

Democratic Progressive Party chairperson candidate Tsai Ing-wen yesterday listed a generation-shift within the party as her chief political promise if she were to win the chairperson elections once more.

BN's Langkawi MP Nawawi Ahmad today deleted a Facebook posting he made which made light of the death of Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh, claiming that it was "not serious".

Many of the approximately 230,000 candidates running for seats in local and national legislatures across Indonesia invested huge amounts of their own money to fund campaigns, but some are now paying an even greater price.

JAKARTA, Indonesia-A feud between two Indonesian political giants is clouding the picture of who will assume leadership of the world's fourth most populous nation later this year.

Karpal Singh, a veteran Malaysian opposition leader and lawyer who led campaigns against the death penalty, has been killed in a car accident.

Taiwan's overall export competitiveness ranking dropped from No. 8 in 2013 to No.

Chinese Cambodian restaurant Hak Heang. 2041 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach Calif., Tuesday, April 16, 2014.

Singapore on Wednesday welcomed an apology from Indonesia's military chief over the naming of a warship after two marines who staged a deadly bombing in the city-state in 1965.

US President Barack Obama is expected to visit Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Malaysia this month as part of his push to increase US diplomatic, economic and security engagement with countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah speaks during the first session of ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit Meeting at the state guest house in Tokyo on December 14, 2013.

Thirty-eight people were hurt when a coach skidded and landed on its side on the shoulder of a road in Kaeng Khoi, Saraburi province, on Tuesday.

People with sleep apnea, a common sleep disorder, may be at increased risk for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, especially women and older people, a new study suggests.

SINGAPORE: The two national Continuing Education and Training campuses will be fully operational by the second half of this year, where they will be able to train some 50,000 workers annually.

Foreign tourists stay on Rin beach on Koh Phangan from Monday morning to noon the next day for the full-moon party.

Cambodia earned US$2.5 billion from the tourism sector last year, a senior government official said.

Private Leonard Manning was killed in an ambush in East Timor in July 2000 during service with the New Zealand Army.

While other goods are bracing for lower exports and weakened consumption at home due to the political crisis, Thailand's digital content industry remains intact and on course to strong growth.

The daughter of the pilot killed in what, until Flight 370, was Malaysia's deadliest aviation crash talks to Phil Taylor about living with the disaster.