ศาลรัฐธรรมนูญมีคำตัดสินให้ ยุบพรรคก้าวไกล ในคดีล้มล้างการปกครองอันมีพระมหากษัตริย์ทรงเป็นประมุขและเป็นปฏิปักษ์ต่อระบอบประชาธิปไตย ด้วยมติเอกฉันท์ อีกทั้งยังตัดสิทธิ์ทางการเมืองของผู้บริหารพรรค รวมทั้ง ...

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 ...

Palauan tourism official Lelly Obakerbau shakes her head and motions at the encroaching jungle that threatens to reclaim an ancient and largely unknown Pacific archaeological site. “If we don’t keep ...

Clashes between police and protesters escalated in Bangladesh on Friday, the second day of a “complete shutdown” declared by students demanding an end to a job quota system. A BenarNews journalist ...

Palauan Sharla Paules surveys the contaminated ground of her lush tropical home island of Peleliu, still littered with WWII munitions 80 years after its liberation from the Japanese. She recalls as a ...

Pacific delegates have been left “shocked” by the omission of sexual and reproductive health rights from a key declaration at the 69th U.N. Commission on the Status of Women meeting in New York. This ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday denied the existence of a “gentleman’s agreement” between his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, and China that Manila would not make repairs to a ...

Malaysia’s leader warned on Thursday that any actions to impede the economic rise of China would upset Beijing enough that it would heighten tensions in the region. Alluding to increasing Chinese ...

Faced with the daunting task of reclaiming neighborhoods, beachfront properties and areas around mosques, repairs began quickly in sections of Indonesia and Thailand devastated by the deadly 2004 ...

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 ...

The Chinese ships began to swarm around the BRP Cabra soon after 7 a.m. on Friday, sailing uncomfortably close to and hemming in the Philippine Coast Guard ship as it escorted civilian boats toward ...

A massive fire tore through the pet zone of the famous Chatuchak Weekend Market in the Thai capital on Tuesday, devastating dozens of shops and killing hundreds of caged animals, authorities said. The ...