After 10 years of reporting from across the Asia-Pacific, BenarNews is pausing operations due to matters beyond its control. The U.S. administration has withheld the funding that we rely on to bring ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reaffirmed the Trump administration’s defense commitments to America’s Pacific territories of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands and that any attack on them ...

Junta airstrikes continued to hamper rescue workers and aid agencies trying to help the survivors of last week’s massive Myanmar earthquake. Adding to the humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war, ...

The death toll from Myanmar’s massive earthquake soared past 1,600 on Saturday, state media said, as rescuers pulled survivors from rubble and the United Nations warned of severe damage to critical ...

Myanmar has pardoned four Thai fishermen detained in the country since November 2024 after they allegedly ventured into its territorial waters, Thailand announced on Friday. One Thai fisherman drowned ...

A landmark court conviction in Papua New Guinea related to the murder of a mother-of-five accused of sorcery is being hailed as a major victory in the fight to stop such attacks and murders. For the ...

Rescuers in Myanmar and Thailand continued their search for survivors Monday, saying signs of life were still being detected following the 7.7 magnitude quake that rocked both countries three days ...

Genetic analysis of the dung of endangered Asian elephants has revealed a larger population in Cambodia’s northern plains than previously believed and insights into their range – information that ...

When Facebook was shut down by Papua New Guinea’s government for a day, no one could point to a specific provision of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2024 (CTA) that enabled it, apart from loose references ...

The United Nations food agency said it managed to avoid drastic food aid cuts to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in the face of concerns that their monthly rations would be reduced by more than half.

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, ...

Tonga and the Federated States of Micronesia will see notable bumps in Australian foreign aid this year, while analysts say there are some indications that Canberra is stepping in to fill a void left ...