Southeast Asia News

A file photo taken at the Ca Mau Gas Company, which supplies gas to two power plants in southern Vietnam Two power plants in southern Vietnam were shut down at the weekend due to a leaking valve on a gas pipeline, state-run Voice of Vietnam radio said on Monday.

A body believed to be that of a Japanese diver who went missing with six others off Bali a month ago has been found far from where she disappeared, Indonesian police said Monday.

Russian tourists get off a plane at Phu Quoc International Airport. Experts are urging the creation of more tourism products to attract international tourists for long stays on the island after it granted a 30-day visa waiver and launched a direct flight to Russia.

Party Time! Excellent. All the racers deserve a pyramid of cocktails for surviving the most stressful party to ever take place in a Malaysian penthouse.

Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh announced his return to politics Sunday amid speculation that he is being brought back by strongman leader Hun Sen to bolster support for his government.

Two Hong Kong women accused of trashing a room they rented in Taipei and stealing a flat-screen TV from the room were arrested at a hostel in Tainan yesterday.

Riot police on standby at the entrance on Future Music Festival Asia at Bukit Jalil National Stadium when it was announced that the third day of the festival was cancelled.

Malaysian officials say they are requesting assistance from a number of countries along the two possible routes the Malaysian plane that disappeared over a week ago may have taken.

A woman reads messages and well wishes to people involved with the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia.

Indonesia's raucous election season kicks off on Sunday with the promise of a fresh style of leadership in the world's third largest democracy, whose economic promise has been sapped by rampant graft, confusing policy and weak rule.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono left Saturday for Sumatra, to take the lead in an operation to combat massive forest fires, which has so far proved fruitless.

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid are among the few who would have been in a position to tamper with equipment on MH370.

OVER THE STRAITS OF MALACA, MALAYSIA a?? Smoothing out his map, Captain Fareq Bin Hassan, a Royal Malaysian Air Force navigator, explained the target areas for his search and rescue flight Saturday.

All have been thoroughly screened to ensure that no one is carrying a stolen or faked passport, right? Think again.

Diplomats from the Turkish Embassy in Bangkok arrived at an immigration detention center in southern Thailand on Friday to identify 220 people who claim to be Turkish refugees and have expressed a desire to be relocated to the country Anadoly Agecny reported.

Sky's Mark Stone joins the Malaysian Air Force as they look for the missing plane from the skies with the naked eye.

Police rescued about 200 suspected Muslim Uighurs from a human smuggling camp in southern Thailand, police sources said on Friday, in the latest crackdown on a burgeoning trafficking network in Southeast Asia.

Muslim men leave a mosque after Friday prayers, just down the road of the home of Fariq Abdul Hamid, co-pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, center, Friday, March 14, 2014 in Shah Alam, Malaysia.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered national and local officials on Friday to take action to control fires in peat-rich Riau province, where heavy smoke has threatened people's health and disrupted air flights.

The Philippines has agreed to allow the United States access to its military bases under a new security deal being negotiated by the two allies, amid mounting concern over China's increasing assertiveness in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.