Back after a four-year break, Asia TOPA offers a place 'where ideas are born and traditions reimagined', says festival ...

In some Amazon rivers in Brazil, cases of diseases related to inadequate basic sanitation, such as malaria and acute diarrhea ...

Global Witness’s roots are closely tied to Cambodia and Thailand, where our founders uncovered how the illegal logging trade was funding the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.

There are 9.2 million people of concern to UNHCR across Asia and the Pacific, including 4.4 million refugees and asylum-seekers, 3.3 million internally displaced people and 2.3 million stateless ...

Southeast Asia’s peatlands and mangroves store immense amounts of carbon, yet they’re rapidly disappearing. A new study finds ...

Muslim-majority nation's free meals program is a welcome move, but urgent steps are needed to make it effective ...

East Timor has become a stable democracy after securing independence in 2002. But its finances are precarious, and nearly ...

A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to ...

Chinese hydroelectric power plans in Tibet threaten to destabilize the Himalayan region’s ecology and politics.

During the pre- and colonial era, the Sea People were not passive victims but active naval forces – strengthening and defending local monarchies (sultanates and kingdoms) in the Sulu Archipelago, ...

As ASEAN nations seek membership in BRICS, Japan has the opportunity to create an alternative coalition that upholds ...

THE martial art of silat, indigenous to South-East Asia especially in Indonesia and Malaysia, is growing in popularity among ...