One day in early April 2012, a Philippine naval surveillance plane spotted eight Chinese fishing boats inside Scarborough Shoal, a triangular chain of reefs around 125 nautical miles (232 kilometers) ...

At Timor-Leste's museum of memory, Hugo Fernandes supervises exhibits chronicling resistance and oppression during the Indonesian occupation – an era when Prabowo Subianto, now Indonesia's ...

At least eight people were killed in the Philippines on Wednesday after heavy rains brought on by a powerful typhoon caused massive flooding, authorities said. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and ...

Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation as it prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence. Nine people were ...

Four Philippine police officers have been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping three Chinese tourists and a Malaysian, officials said Wednesday. Security camera footage released by the interior ...

Papua New Guinea’s opening of an embassy in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem has been condemned by Palestinian officials and by the Pacific island country’s opposition leader, who said it was a reckless ...

It is too early for the Philippine government to declare victory against communist rebels who have been waging a bloody insurgency for decades, a conflict monitoring group said in a report Friday, ...

Indonesia has said it aims to start producing nuclear power by 2032 to meet electricity needs and attain environmental goals although serious concerns remain about the cost, safety, and risk of ...

It wasn’t supposed to be so hard. Prabowo Subianto cruised to victory in Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election, winning 58% in the first round of voting. Yet only five months after taking office, ...

A proposal by the governor of Jakarta to build an artificial island to help dispose of the city’s 8,000 tons of daily trash is being criticized by environmentalists who say waste needs to be reduced, ...

Indonesia is going ahead with a project to convert millions of acres in Papua into a gigantic sugarcane plantation so it can become self-sufficient in sugar and its related liquid fuel, bioethanol.

Debate on Guam’s future as a U.S. territory has intensified with its legislature due to vote on a non-binding resolution to become a U.S. state amid mounting Pacific geostrategic tensions and ...