14+ hour, 39+ min ago   (610+ words) SINGAPORE — Cambodia and Thailand will face off before international mediators in Singapore this week in a long-standing dispute over valuable maritime resources, the latest spat between the feuding neighbors. Phnom Penh initiated a UN-backed conciliation process at the Permanent Court…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (364+ words) JAKARTA — One person was killed and more than 100 were rescued on Sunday after a ferry sailing between the Indonesian islands of Java and Borneo was hit by bad weather, rescue officials said. The Virgo Transport 8, carrying 243 passengers and crew, had…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1143+ words) Myanmar coup leader Min Aung Hlaing wrapped up a three-day state visit on Sunday to Vietnam, where the Southeast Asian neighbors vowed to boost defense and security ties. There was nothing unusual about the trip itself, except that it marked…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1071+ words) Southeast Asia has long emerged as a major hub of highly organized online fraud operations, targeting people all around the world. According to the United Nations, these operations generate tens of billions of dollars annually, having long surpassed the illegal…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (284+ words) BANGKOK — A police officer who allegedly gunned down his wife at the kindergarten where she was a teacher in eastern Thailand surrendered Thursday after an overnight standoff with authorities, officials said. Tatsapong Tongthat, an officer at the Bang Lamung station…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (302+ words) MANILA, Philippines — The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called on a “certain individual” to stop what they described as “provocations” and “threatrics” following Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro’s public denunciation of China’s claims over the 2016 arbitral ruling at a defense forum…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (269+ words) BANGKOK, Thailand – A police officer shot dead his teacher wife at the kindergarten where she worked in Thailand on Wednesday but all the children are safe, officials said. The gunman returned home after the shooting in Chonburi province, southeast of…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (343+ words) A woman in Japan went viral and captured the public’s attention after announcing the birth of her seventh child, amid the country’s falling birth rate. Japanese writer and former political candidate Kotoe Hashimoto announced on social media platform X on…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1013+ words) The world’s food system is under growing stress, and new research is pointing to areas where this could lead to conflict. Severe droughts and extreme weather are damaging harvests in many regions. A developing El Niño event is even threatening…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1124+ words) KATHMANDU — When devastating floods tore through the river basins lying at Rasuwa and Nuwakot last week, reaching the affected areas by air became a challenge of its own. The landscape had been altered by landslides and flooding, while there was…...