Southeast Asia News

Thailand's government lowered its full-year growth forecast after the economy expanded less than analysts estimated last quarter, boosting the case for the central bank to cut interest rates.

The White House welcomed ex-general Thein Sein on Monday as the first president of Burma/Myanmar in roughly 47 years after the late Gen.

High-speed railway lines connecting Thailand, Laos and China might soon become a reality after the Thai cabinet met with its Lao counterparts in Chiang Mai earlier this week.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo won more than 88 per cent of the vote for congress in Pampanga province.

Choice habitat: The mangroves and mudflats along the coast from Teluk Air Tawar near Butterworth, Penang, to Kuala Muda in Kedah, are important for migratory waterbirds such as these common redshanks.

However, instead of joyous celebration, there are widespread protests on the street.

President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally in China's backyard and trying to defend human rights on Monday when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years.

University students armed with mock guns and knives re-created the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge on Monday for the official annual ceremony honouring victims of the 1970s communist regime, blamed for the deaths of about 1.7 million of their countrymen.

Lopez-led Energy Development Corporation has gotten the green light from the Department of Energy to push through with the development of its $300-million wind project in Burgos, Ilocos Norte.

A ship is seen from the shore of the Bay of Bengal before Cyclone Mahasen approaches in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on May 16, 2013.

RANGOON, Burma - Maroon robes for Buddhist monks had long drawn customers to the shop in downtown Rangoon.

In this photo released by PT Freeport Indonesia, the Indonesian unit of Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, rescuers gather inside a tunnel that collapsed on Tuesday morning as they continue the attempt to rescue trapped workers at Big Gossan mining area in Mimika, Papua province, Indonesia, Sunday, May 19, 2013.

Bob Elson, the Australian historian who wrote Indonesia: A History of an Idea, has expressed his puzzlement at what he sees as a gap between Indonesia in the international arena and Indonesia at home.

Unity snap: Vincent Leong's Keeping Up With The Abdullahs 1 shows an ethnic Chinese family dressed in Malay clothes posing in front of their kampung baru house.

Wander Woman, together with health and beauty editors, bloggers and other members of media had some fun under the sun last time when Watsons in partnership with the Department of Tourism, launched its Sun Up to Sun Down Campaign at the Sofitel Manila Seafloor Garden.

A Myanma Airways Xian MA-60, registration XY-AIQ performing a flight from Heho to Monghsat with 55 passengers, overran the end of the runway while landing on Monghsat's runway 30 at about 11:50L by about 240 meters and stopped at the airport perimeter fence.

Voters in the Philippines appear to have delivered a resounding victory to President Benigno Aquino in midterm elections.

A Rohingya man pushes a rickshaw leaving a camp for displaced Rohingya people in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, Thursday, May 16, 2013.

Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi speaking to journalists at Air Hangat Lounge of Mahsuri International Exhibition Centre during LIMA 2013 in Langkawi, Kedah.

In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, stands next to Myanmar President Thein Sein during a group photo session at the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia.