Southeast Asia News

Malaysian police said Thursday they had arrested seven people in connection with the murder of an Estonian model whose body was found on a resort island.

All five men from the Yangon-based Unity journal were sentenced by a court Thursday for violating the 1923 Burma State Secrets Act pertaining to trespassing in a prohibited area with prejudicial purpose.

The museum, formerly a high school in Phnom Penh, was turned into a prison after the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975.

Two nursing students of Sirindhorn Health College were shot and killed at a market opposite Yaha Hospital in Yala province Wednesday, Manager Online reported.

If you live in Kuala Lumpur and use public transport to move around the Klang Valley, it is inevitable that you get to stop off at KL Sentral, Malaysia's landmark transportation hub where nearly all modes of transport are stationed.

Pregnant asylum seeker women on Christmas Island pleaded with medical experts to adopt their children out to Australian families four months ago, as they became anxious about their future.

Transport authorities admitted on Wednesday that cronyism and leniency were behind the employment of a man charged with the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl on a southern train on Sunday morning.

Both candidates claimed victory in Indonesia's presidential election on Wednesday, suggesting there could be a drawn out constitutional battle to decide who will next lead the world's third-largest democracy.

A Malaysian shopkeeper on Wednesday was sentenced to death after a court found him guilty of murdering a French tourist on a popular resort island.

After the most polarizing campaigning in Indonesia's history, millions of people voted to elect a new president Wednesday in a race too tight to predict, hoping for change after years of corruption and poverty.

The military regime is committed to making checkpoint expansion a top priority in a move to spur border trade, but it has yet to make a decision on the ambitious Dawei development plan.

The rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl, who was shoved off a moving train on an overnight trip from southern Thailand, has sparked public outrage and calls for capital punishment for rapists.

Contrasting campaigns ... from left, Indonesian presidential candidates Prabowo Subianto, a former special forces commander, and Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo.

Carrying ballot boxes on their backs, Indonesian tribesmen climbed barefoot up a mountain in a remote part of Borneo island to ensure a small village would not miss the chance to take part in Wednesday's presidential poll.

A stray bullet struck and injured a man selling food at the opening of a Cambodian Buddhist temple in Charlotte, and police say it appears to have come from celebratory Fourth of July gunfire.

In a bid to allay growing unease over the recent string of kidnappings in Sabah, Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced today a restructuring of the Eastern Sabah Security Command , giving added focus to security in the state's porous maritime border.

The Cambodian director of a school charity has been arrested for allegedly selling the sexual services of his teenage students to foreigners who disguised their payments as donations, local media reported on Thursday.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino listens on his headset during the opening plenary session of the World Economic Forum on East Asia, at Manila's Makati financial district May 22, 2014.

An subcontracted railway employee has confessed to raping and killing a 13-year-old girl on an overnight train from the southern province of Surat Thani to Bangkok early Sunday morning.

For more than a decade Indonesia has enjoyed a lively democracy. But as millions prepare to vote in the third direct presidential election, memories of former dictator Suharto linger on, as the BBC's Karishma Vaswani reports.