South-East Asia

By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities on Wednesday struggled to distribute aid to tens of thousands of...

By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia's parliament passed a long-awaited bill on Tuesday to tackle sexual violence, aimed at building...

By Eloisa Lopez and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine justice secretary pledged on Tuesday to launch an investigation...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities said on Monday at least 25 people had died in landslides and floods caused by...

MANILA (Reuters) - Rescue teams in the Philippines faced a race against time on Tuesday in the search for 28...

By Johan Purnomo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police fired tear gas and water cannon on Monday to disperse hundreds of...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A prominent Thai politician faces up to 20 years in prison following his indictment on Monday for...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the need to exercise restraint to maintain peace...

By Rozanna Latiff and Ebrahim Harris MERSING, Malaysia (Reuters) -A Dutch teenager who disappeared after going diving off the coast...

(Reuters) - A deputy governor at Myanmar's central bank has been shot in an attack at her home in the...

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines education ministry came under fire from teachers on Friday over a learning module that contained...

By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Shrugging off his low rating in opinion polls, Philippine politician...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore court on Friday sentenced an Australian man to five and a half years in prison...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Norwegian woman who disappeared while diving off Malaysia's southeastern coast was found safe on Thursday,...

By Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo has sought to rein in speculation that...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced a senior member of an outlawed hardline Islamist group to three...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr has retained a clear lead in a survey ahead of the...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian court handed down a death sentence on Monday to a teacher for raping 13 girls...

By Yuddy Cahya Budiman JAKARTA (Reuters) - The world's largest Muslim-majority nation of Indonesia welcomed the start of the holy...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai government on Saturday hailed "significant progress" in the latest talks with the main group fighting...