Amid growing persecution by Myanmar’s military, thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims in its western state of Rakhine have fled their frontier villages and are languishing along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border for lack of shelter and emergency supplies.
Thailand prepared Thursday to welcome a new king, with final arrangements scheduled to formalize the accession of Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to the throne.
A new TV series about a mermaid’s adventures on land opened at the top of a chart measuring TV shows’ popularity, data showed Tuesday.
US president Barack Obama has said he may speak out after leaving office if he feels his successor Donald Trump is threatening core American values.
Desperate to avoid further tension, the police on Tuesday decided not to immediately announce the outcome of the much-anticipated case screening regarding blasphemy allegations against Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, who is running for reelection.
The Iraqi army said Sunday that troops have driven Islamic State militants out of the town of Nimrud, south of Mosul, near the site of famed ancient Assyrian ruins that were reportedly destroyed by the extremists.
Truckloads of soldiers and police took the streets of Jakarta on Friday, securing shopping malls and business areas, as residents in the Indonesian capital braced for a large-scale protest planned by hardline Muslim groups.
The Russian government is committed to stepping up defense and military cooperation with Indonesia.
A fresh analysis of the final moments of doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 suggests no one was controlling the plane when it plunged into the ocean, according to a report released by investigators on Wednesday, as experts hunting for the aircraft gathered in Australia’s capital to discuss the fading search effort.
UNICEF is calling on world leaders to reduce air pollution, saying it leads to the deaths of more children yearly than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined.