The Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia yesterday agreed to pool intelligence and tackle militant financing as fears grow that

Myanmar security forces killed three people while clearing a suspected Rohingya insurgent training camp in the mountains in the

AirAsia has been named the World's best low-cost airline for the ninth time in a row at the 2017 Skytrax World Airline Awards.

The number of recorded suicides and attempted suicides has soared at Thailand's largest camp for refugees from Myanmar, the

A two-day ‘Keep it Real: Truth and Trust in the Media’ conference ends in Singapore with a suite of recommendations aimed at curbing the spread of misinformation in Asia. As one of their first moves, news organisations in the region will draw up a step-by-step checklist to help journalists and readers identify and flag fake news.

Philippine troops pounded Islamist militants holding parts of southern Marawi city with air strikes and artillery yesterday as more

Jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday he would not be a candidate for prime minister in elections due by

The Malaysian government is going ahead with its tourism tax to be imposed from July 1.

An explosion rocks a kindergarten in eastern China, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens, authorities said, as state media published images showing bloodied and unconscious victims.

Maznah Unyan, 49, remembers the first time she set foot in Kuala Lumpur, it was the furthest she had ever been away from her orang asli village in Pulau Carey, Klang.

Experts question impact of politicians’ social media presence.

A family in Phitsanulok’s Muang district in Thailand has opened its doors – with free accommodation for foreign backpackers to expose their two young sons to everyday use of English.

United States special forces are providing support to the Philippine military battling to dislodge Islamist militants in a southern city,

Hundreds of people gathered on a beach in southern Myanmar yesterday desperately waiting for news of their loved ones as the first

Astronomers find a new application for Albert Einstein's century-old theory of relativity - using it to directly measure the size of a star beyond the sun.

Muslim scholars in Indonesia call on clerics to stay away from politics following the religious sentiment that may divide the country. Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) across the country are told to stay away from politics.

An Indian army major and five suspected militants were killed in a gunfight in a remote northeastern Indian state close to the border with

The Indonesian government is predicting that the recent severing of ties between several Arab countries and Qatar would deal a blow to the archipelago’s tourism industry, with 50,000 expected tourists not showing up because of the crisis, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Southeast Asian nations plan to use spy planes and drones to stem the movement of militants across their porous borders, defence

There are about 1,200 Islamic State (IS) group operatives in the Philippines, including foreigners of whom 40 are from Indonesia, the