Southeast Asia News

The wife of a Perth man on board a missing jet is praying for a miracle that he will return home safely.

In a satirical "Communist rally" aimed at mainland Chinese shoppers, about 100 Hong Kongers marched through the city on Sunday wearing Maoist costumes, yelling "love your country, buy Chinese products!" A protester in a Communist costume holds a sign reading "If you don't drink Chinese milk, are you still Chinese?" To the left, an image of Hong ... (more)

An Indonesian court charged a former sports and youth minister in a multimillion-dollar graft case on Monday, one of several which hit the president's party ahead of upcoming elections next month.

Vietnam scrambled helicopters to check reports of a floating "yellow object" that rescue teams suspected could be a life raft from the plane, but it was unclear whether the sighting would prove to be the first big breakthrough or merely the latest in a series of false alarms.

Sam Rainsy, leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, gestures as he speaks to The Nation's Chairman Suthichai Yoon.

Growing despair ... a relative of a passenger on-board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries at Lidu Hotel in Beijing, China.

Pena House Group, a leading garment company, sees tourism gaining in Cha-am, as it opened Premium Outlet several years ago followed by Santorini Amusement and Water Park.

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After spending Saturday in a desperate wait for a plane and news that never came, relatives of Chinese passengers said Sunday that Malaysia Airlines staff were providing more information about search efforts, and had told them to prepare passports for a future visit to the plane's location, once that is established.

As the hunt for the missing Malaysian Air jumbo jet gained momentum Sunday in the South China Sea and Malaysian intelligence agencies were investigating potential terrorism, hopes were all but gone for the 239 passengers and crew.

This image courtesy of Flightradar24, shows the flight track of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 on March 7, 2014.

Romano Bico shakes hands with Zaldy Patron, the Deputy Consulate General at the Philippine Consulate General of New York, after taking his oath of citizenship for the Republic of the Philippines at an annual outreach event hosted by the Catholic Action of Mary and the Philippine Consulate General of New York at St. Mary's Church Hall in Jersey City ... (more)

U.S. officials told NBC News on Saturday they are investigating terrorism concerns after two people listed as passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines jet were reportedly not to on the plane and reported their passports had been stolen - one a year ago and the other two years ago.

Surely the extensive and consistent global media coverage on the re-jailing of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is not in vain.

Vaccine-resistant mutation of H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been confirmed in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh while vaccinated fowls fell sick in central Vietnam.

The veteran stage, film and TV performer best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honeymooners" has died.

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact over the South China Sea early Saturday morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and international aviation authorities still hadn't located the jetliner several hours later.

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The Xinhua News Agency, citing a local Vietnamese media report, says a Vietnamese search and rescue official reported that the signals have been detected from the plane from about 220 kilometers southwest of Vietnam's southernmost coastal province of Ca Mau.

TEHRAN Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Jakarta on Friday called for expansion of cooperation with Iran.