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The Philippine Coast Guard says it has recovered 41 bodies from the wreckage of a ferry that caught fire this week, bringing the total death toll to 76. More …
Philippine firefighters on Friday managed to enter a smoldering ferry in a search for dozens of people still unaccounted for after the vessel caught fire on We…
El Niño fuels wildfires in Indonesia, sickening some 100,000 people The fires are burning peatlands, which can release more particulate matter into the air th…
Myanmar coup leader Min Aung Hlaing wrapped up a three-day state visit on Sunday to Vietnam, where the Southeast Asian neighbors vowed to boost defense and sec…
At least five people have died and 86 are missing after a fire broke out on a ferry in the Philippines, the country's coastguard said. The MV June Aster, whic…
The world's oldest known habitual drug use can be traced to an island in Indonesia, where ice age hunter-gatherers sucked on betel nuts — palm seeds that conta…
A Singaporean man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge in the US for organising one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts. Malone…
Singapore's government says it will raise the annual salaries of its ministers and other office holders, including its prime minister who is the highest paid p…
Indonesia has reopened its main airport in Jakarta and four others that had been closed due to volcanic ash from Mount Anak Krakatau. The five airports reope…
Some 270,000 passengers have been left stranded across Indonesia after a volcanic eruption grounded more than 2,000 flights and forced airports to suspend oper…
Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro has warned that Beijing could view recent cuts to the joint US-South Korea military drills as an opportunity to r…
