Japan is funding eight bridges for remote highland areas of Papua New Guinea, a small component of the Pacific island country’s multi-billion dollar plans to link its main cities and towns with roads.
Rescuers on Tuesday recovered the bodies of at least five sailors who died after a Thai warship sank during bad weather in the Gulf of Thailand, Royal Thai Navy officials said Tuesday, admitting there weren’t enough life vests aboard.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim breezed through a vote of confidence in parliament on Monday, sealing his legitimacy exactly a month after the general election returned a hung parliament.
The leader of the kingmaker party in Fiji’s election says he doesn’t support forming a security relationship with China, preferring foreign relations to be closely aligned with Australia and like-minded countries in the Pacific region.
U.S.-Bangladesh tensions notched up this week after protesters caused the American ambassador to Dhaka to cut short a visit to the home of the mother and sister of a missing opposition politician for security reasons.
Rescuers were still searching late Friday for a dozen people missing after a landslide swept through unlicensed campsites at a farm north of Kuala Lumpur and killed at least 21 people, including children, officials said.
Starting in 2023, UNICEF plans to extend a pilot program to educate Rohingya children at upper grade levels who are living at refugee camps in Bangladesh and have been deprived of schooling for years, officials said.
Human rights defenders are seeing a surge in potentially deadly boat journeys by Rohingya refugees as they try to reach countries in Southeast Asia where they can access schools, food and jobs.
Two dozen Rohingya departed for the United States on Thursday where they will be allowed to live, officials with Bangladesh’s foreign ministry and repatriation office announced,
At least one man was killed and scores were injured when violence broke out Wednesday as police clashed with a big crowd of supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party outside its headquarters in Dhaka, officials and activists said.