Southeast Asia News

Lawmakers from Brunei announced this week that they will postpone implementing a measure that would make it legal to punish those convicted of gay sex by stoning, according to Gay Star News.

Karpal had essentially thrown a challenge to Pas and other advocates of the Islamic state, who either out of ignorance or for political points had made the hudud as the end-all of their faith, writes Abdul Rahman Koya .

Freed captive Filipino-Algerian sisters Nadjoua and Linda Bansil clad in masturah and nijab veils are presented by their brother Mohammed Bansil with military chief, Lieutenant General Rustico Guerrero during a briefing in a military camp in Zamboanga City, southern Philippines on February 21, 2014.

Philippine forces on Wednesday arrested a Muslim extremist believed to have taken part in the kidnapping of 21 people from a Malaysian resort in 2000, a senior commander said.

An "object of interest" in the search for missing Malaysian Airlines plane has been recovered on the coast of Western Australia, several hours drive south of Perth, officials said.

As a young girl, Tamara Sloper Harding was enchanted by the women who had served in the French Resistance during World War II.

Although this is still low compared to the pre-ABSD proportion of 19 per cent [SINGAPORE] Private home purchases fell across the board in the first three months of this year to just over 2,000 units - the first time in more than five years that the number has dropped below 3,000 homes.

Tourism is bringing rapid development to the islands of Langkawi, which puts pressure on the marine ecosystem.

Tak immigration police have arrested two monks reportedly from the controversial Wat Phra Dhammakaya sect for allegedly smuggling 30 illegal immigrants into Thailand.

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah says the future of Southeast Asia remains unpredictable.

A Chinese relative of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reacts as he attends a meeting at the Metro Park Hotel in Beijing on April 21, 2014.

Under the theme of "Building a More Vibrant Mobile Ecosystem through Innovation and Collaboration", the event will bring together key players in the mobile ecosystem, including mobile operators, Internet companies, incubators, entrepreneurs, policy makers, regulators and academia, and will focus on innovation and the role of various sectors in ... (more)

General Gun Maw, vice chief of the staff of Kachin Independence Army, speaks during nationwide ceasefire talk with the Burmese government peace making group on April 5, 2014, in Rangoon.

Electoral workers examine a ballot as they count votes at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Jakarta, Indonesia earlier this month.

Win Tin, an uncompromising Burmese journalist who helped Aung San Suu Kyi launch a pro-democracy movement against the brutal military regime and then endured nearly two decades in jail as one of his country's longest-serving political prisoners, died April 21 in Rangoon.

U.S. president Barack Obama makes a statement to the media in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on April 17, 2014 .

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received a delegation led by Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Hun Sen. Azerbaijani president stressed the historical importance of the first visit of the Cambodian prime minister to Azerbaijan in terms of development of bilateral cooperation between the two countries, expressing ... (more)

A new joint leadership exchange programme for youths in Singapore and Brunei will be set up in the second half of this year.

One of the founder members of the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy, Win Tin was seen as highly influential in the push for reform in the South East Asian nation.

Marine biologist Choo Poh Leem is involved in an Anti-Fish Bombing campaign to stop the harmful method of harvesting fish.