South-East Asia

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his cabinet will continue to exercise their executive powers as...

(Reuters) - The farming town of Depayin joined Myanmar's list of shattered communities when the army moved in to crush...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights investigator called on countries on Wednesday to impose economic...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines will send black boxes of a Lockheed C-130 aircraft that crashed at the weekend to...

By Thinh Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) - Thousands of students turned out for examinations in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Wednesday, forging...

HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam will impose tight movement restrictions in its commercial hub Ho Chi Minh city from the end of...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday gave the strongest hint yet that he might seek the vice...

(Corrects to include full name of doctor at first reference in paragraph 23, edits second reference in paragraph 29) By...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Wednesday named defence minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob as his deputy,...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was working to expedite the implementation of a five-point consensus...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer discussed the situation in the South China Sea with her Chinese counterpart...

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities have retrieved both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from an...

By Adi Kurniawan JAKARTA (Reuters) - At a workshop located in a Jakarta cemetery, coffin maker Olaskar Purba and his...

By Fransiska Nangoy and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Russia strongly supports the Southeast Asian diplomatic effort to end the...

By Karen Lema and Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine authorities ordered an investigation on Monday into the crash of...

By Stanley Widianto and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government on Monday agreed to boost its coronavirus healthcare budget...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of people on the outskirts of Thailand's capital were being evacuated on Monday as firefighters battled...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia reported on Monday a record 29,745 new coronavirus infections and 558 deaths, health ministry data showed....

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's parliament will hold a special sitting for five days starting from July 26 to allow...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand plans to allow some construction projects to resume in its capital and surrounding provinces although most...