Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation as it prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence. Nine people were ...

A Philippine court convicted four police officers Tuesday for killing a father and his son in 2016, putting the total number of police successfully prosecuted for their involvement in former President ...

The Filipino military said Wednesday that it had identified the Islamic State extremist group’s new emir for Southeast Asia as the leader of a local militant faction being targeted in an offensive ...

Restrictions on journalists covering an upcoming summit of Commonwealth nations in Samoa are “ridiculous” and at odds with a government that purportedly values democracy, the Pacific island country’s ...

The latest satellite imagery has revealed a new airstrip taking shape on Barque Canada reef, an artificial island developed by Vietnam in the disputed Spratly archipelago in the South China Sea.

It is too early for the Philippine government to declare victory against communist rebels who have been waging a bloody insurgency for decades, a conflict monitoring group said in a report Friday, ...

Vietnam’s island building in the South China Sea has reached a record with the total new land created in the first six months of this year nearly equaling that of 2022 and 2023 combined, a U.S.

Palauan Sharla Paules surveys the contaminated ground of her lush tropical home island of Peleliu, still littered with WWII munitions 80 years after its liberation from the Japanese. She recalls as a ...

The China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) reported it has discovered an oilfield in the South China Sea with proven reserves exceeding 100 million tons, Chinese state media said on Monday. The ...

The United States on Friday imposed financial sanctions on the notorious Bangladeshi police unit RAB and six of its current and former officers, saying they were responsible for serious human rights ...

Debate on Guam’s future as a U.S. territory has intensified with its legislature due to vote on a non-binding resolution to become a U.S. state amid mounting Pacific geostrategic tensions and ...

The U.S. Treasury Department has issued sanctions against three Thailand-based Chinese nationals for their alleged role in a cybercrime operation that took control of Americans’ computers to secure ...