A medical helicopter carrying five people that went missing is feared crashed in waters off Palawan island in the western Philippines, coast guard officials said Thursday.
The supply of essential goods in Indonesia’s restive Papua region has been disrupted in recent weeks as a regional airline halted nearly 70% of its flights after one of its pilots was taken hostage by separatist rebels last month.
Former Sen. Leila de Lima has appeared in a Manila court again to press her petition to dismiss the government’s case against her for lack of evidence, days after marking six years in jail on what she calls trumped-up charges
Malaysia has set aside more than U.S. $2 million in the 2023 budget to counter Islamophobia by translating and printing the Quran in several languages and distributing copies internationally.
Malaysia has deported 114 Muslim Myanmar nationals who will be persecuted by the ruling military when they return, although they are not Rohingya, their lawyer said Thursday.
Bangladesh will have a hard time complying with the loan recommendations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) without antagonizing the public and big business ahead of the national election, analysts and stakeholders said.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s cabinet has agreed to amend the constitution so children born to Malaysian mothers with foreign fathers can be granted citizenship, a right thus far only granted to Malaysian fathers, a ministerial statement said Saturday.
The United Nations World Food Program announced on Friday that it will cut food aid to Bangladesh’s Rohingya starting in March because of funding shortfalls and despite warnings from its own experts that malnutrition is pervasive in the refugee camps.
Three Philippine police officers who went into hiding after being implicated in the 2020 killing of a Spanish surfer during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war have voluntarily surrendered, the justice department said Wednesday.
Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s Papua said Tuesday that a foreign pilot taken hostage last week was alive and well, as they released undated photographs and videos they said showed the New Zealand citizen, amid a group of apparent insurgents, in what appeared to be a forested area.