Southeast Asia News

The sprawling home at 29488 58th Ave. in Abbotsford spans a whopping 44,340 sq ft and includes nine bedrooms and eight bathrooms.

A Thai woman dressed in the royal color of yellow cries as she watches King Bhumibol Adulyadej make a speech on a giant screen, on his 86th birthday at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013.

The campus is overrun by a tangled web of weeds and vines. Many of the books in the open-air library are ancient, their pages yellow.

Relief effort: A Royal Malaysian Air Force helicopter delivering aid to flood victims in Kuantan.

As dusk falls and lights flick on amongst a hodgepodge of restaurants, nail salons and dance clubs overlooking this Cambodian capital's waterfront, tuk-tuk taxis whisk past a reality that emerges nightly in the shadows along the street.

In order to tap the burgeoning ASEAN market, the Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank recently established a foothold in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

Cambodia will resume international adoptions in 2014, more than four years after suspending them over concerns about child exploitation, an official said Wednesday.

Speakers told lawmakers Tuesday night there are many more holes in the state's CPS agency than just the current crisis.

More than 7,500 people have been evacuated from Johor, with the coastal town of Mersing being the worst hit with about 5,450 displaced by the floods, said the Malaysia Civil Defence Department on Wednesday.

Anti-government protesters have agreed to a one-day truce in honor of the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 86th birthday on Thursday, but vowed to maintain pressure on the government before and after the royal birthday.

The death toll from super typhoon "Yolanda" which pummeled Visayas last November 8 has risen to 5,719, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Wednesday morning, Dec. 4. According to NDRRMC's "Situation Report No.

The flood situation in Malaysia's Pahang, Johor and Terengganu states has worsened, with more victims evacuated to flood relief centres on Tuesday night.

A lawyer representing East Timor in a commercial spying case against Canberra at The Hague said his offices were raided by Australian intelligence officials today and a key witness arrested.

MALAYSIA'S inflation rate will only increase slightly due to the 15 per cent to 17 per cent hike in electricity tariff, government officials and research firms said.

An inquest into the death of a man who drowned while on holiday in Thailand has found he died accidentally.

Top trade officials began talks Tuesday that will either produce an eleventh hour deal that could boost the global economy by $1 trillion or possibly spell the end of the World Trade Organization's relevance as a forum for negotiations.

MALAYSIA: Floods in Malaysia's Pahang state forced more than 5,000 people in four districts to evacuate on Tuesday morning.

China's top negotiator on Monday visited Cecilia Koo, widow of the first chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation, and said he expects the signing of Taiwan-China trade-in-goods agreement in the first half of 2014.

Indonesia's anti-corruption agency questioned the energy minister as a witness in a bribery scandal on Monday, in a case that could further damage the president's ailing party ahead of polls.

Marco Islanders thronged to Veterans' Community Park Saturday evening for the Christmas Island Style ceremonial lighting of the Christmas tree.