Southeast Asia News

President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday that there used to be more than 40 different indigenous languages in Taiwan, but only 22 have survived, approximately eight of which are facing possible extinction.

Take a motorbike tour through Vietnamese highlands. The perfect way to see the Vietnamese countryside between Nha Trang and Dalat is on the back of a motorbike.

WHEN Hezeri Samsuri received a frantic call from his mother about the floods in his hometown of Kuantan, Pahang, all he wanted to do was to go to her rescue.

The National Union of Journalists in the Philippines blasted President Benigno Aquino III for his alleged apathy towards media killings.

An American national arrested in Phnom Penh on Monday on rape charges filed in the US will face new charges in Cambodian courts related to his alleged sexual assault of three underage girls at an orphanage he ran, local authorities said yesterday.

Adores living in her tight-knit Christmas Island community, which is full of colour, culture and beauty.

FORMER East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta says Australia shouldn't under estimate the anger of East Timorese people over allegations of Australian spying.

Singer Mariah Carey holds hands with Santa Claus as she performs at the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, attended by President Barack Obama and his family, at the Ellipse in Washington, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013.

Efforts to integrate the children of migrant worker from Burma into the country's higher education system are bearing fruit, with a threefold increase in the number of Burmese students in Thailand slated to take a 2014 matriculation exam that was administered for the first time earlier this year.

Singapore's first major riot in four decades is forcing the wealthy island to confront a stubborn but vexing question: how to treat low-paid foreign workers whose muscle underpins much of the economy but whose presence increasingly riles its citizens.

Cambodians wave the United Nations and Cambodian flags during a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the International Human Rights Day in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 10 December 2013.

The Anna Maria Island Privateers, along with their Christmas sleigh, Santa Claus and their float/boat Skullway, join the fun hosted Dec. 6 by The Islander and The Feast Restaurant at the Island Shopping Center in Holmes Beach.

KUALA LUMPUR/ SINGAPORE - Malaysia's foreign affairs ministry has confirmed that one Malaysian has been detained for suspected involvement in Sunday's shock riot at Singapore's Little India.

An Indonesian court has jailed the disgraced former head of the country's biggest Islamic party for 16 years over a scandal in which bribe money was laundered as gifts for dozens of women, including an adult magazine model.

Singapore prosecutors will charge 24 Indian workers for taking part in the city-state's first riot in more than 40 years, police said Tuesday as the government called for calm and warned against stoking racial hatred.

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

Notorious Vee and Capt. Scott De Hooghe took Best in Parade honors. Marco Island's Christmas Boat Parade wound around the island Saturday evening, with spectators lining waterfront homes and public houses.

Cambodian Sam Vishna looks at a mixture of brown and white skulls that make up a map of Cambodia at Tuol Sleng Prison Museum in Phnom Penh in 1998.

Women line outside a Phnom Penh karaoke bar where sex is sold. There are many such establishments on the road to Svay Pak, on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital.

As part of a program of reforms to reopen a country tightly confined for half a century, Burma's government last week reopened Rangoon University to undergraduates.