South-East Asia

By Bernadette Christina JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has ordered oxygen makers to prioritise medical needs amid growing demand from COVID-19...

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - More than 10 billion pesos ($204 million) in pandemic aid intended for poor Philippine...

By Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Tabita Diela JAKARTA (Reuters) -The next two weeks are critical for the success of Indonesia's...

By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Authorities in the Philippines started evacuating thousands of people on Thursday after the...

By Tom Allard JAKARTA (Reuters) - The scenes in Indonesia's hospitals in the past week have been eerily similar to...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's parliament will reconvene this month, a minister said on Friday, just days after the king...

By James Pearson HANOI (Reuters) - Netflix Inc has removed Australian spy drama "Pine Gap" from its services in Vietnam...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's highest court on Friday ordered news portal Malaysiakini to pay 550,000 ringgit ($132,179.76) in damages...

By Mei Mei Chu and Chayut Setboonsarng KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Malaysia's predominant human trafficking crime is forced labour, the...

By Doyinsola Oladipo (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Myanmar's military on Thursday to release Nobel Laureate Aung San...

(Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Myanmar's biggest city Yangon on Thursday, setting fire to an...

By Jiraporn Kuhakan PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Restaurant owner and single mother Pimonta Suksaen is pinning her hopes on a...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday landed an insulting verbal blow on boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao, seen...

(Reuters) - Detained U.S. journalist Daniel Fenster appeared to have lost weight but said he was fine on Thursday as...

By Mei Mei Chu and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department will downgrade Malaysia to the worst...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia on Thursday announced tighter restrictions on movement and businesses in the capital Kuala Lumpur and...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The United States has ended its programme with Cambodia to send students to top American military...

By Jiraporn Kuhakan PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - As Thailand's government prepares to celebrate its reopening to foreign tourists this week,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday it had agreed a partnership for financial services with Singapore as part of...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's king on Wednesday asked for a special parliamentary sitting to be convened before Aug. 1,...