Mass killing and ‘cannibalism’ video mar start of PNG’s 50th anniversary year Tribal violence during the New Year highlights increasing lawlessness and lack of police resources.

Students in Indonesia’s Papua region protest free-meal program, demand free education instead Authorities responded with force, including the use of tear gas and warning shots.

Beijing draws baselines around shoal in Manila’s jurisdiction to fortify claims Its line is around Scarborough Shoal, the South China Sea feature that lies within the Philippines’ exclusive economic ...

China discovers 100 million-ton oilfield in South China Sea: report The announcement came days after the U.S., Philippines, Japan staged naval training near a contested shoal.

Indonesia’s shrinking middle class worries economists As a result, the economic stability of Southeast Asia’s biggest country is at risk, experts warn.

Indonesia’s Prabowo revives transmigration, deploys troops to Papua to ensure food security New president’s efforts to feed Indonesia could lead to additional violence in the restive region, analyst ...

Photos: Death toll soars in Bangladesh unrest A BenarNews journalist witnessed Border Guard Bangladesh members shoot three youths.

Philippine court convicts 4 police officers for killings in Duterte drug war Victims’ families see convictions as “partial victory” in holding former president accountable for bloody anti-drug ...

Indonesia is going ahead with a project to convert millions of acres in Papua into a gigantic sugarcane plantation so it can become self-sufficient in sugar and its related liquid fuel, bioethanol.

Negotiators for the Thai government and southern insurgents agreed to hold meetings later this month and in March to discuss an “improved” roadmap to peace as well as a Ramadan and Songkran ceasefire, ...

EXPLAINED: How Indonesian textile giant Sritex collapsed Mounting debt, falling sales and a court’s bankruptcy ruling forced the Solo-based company out of business.

Giving season: Australia punts on cash-for-favors in Pacific to squeeze out China Papua New Guinea and Nauru put sovereignty over security deals on the line.