Seven foreigners in Fiji have been sent to hospital with suspected alcohol poisoning after reportedly drinking cocktails at a five-star resort's bar.
Four are Australian tourists, aged between 18 and 56. One is American and two are foreigners living (...)
The manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained after six tourists died from suspected methanol poisoning.
Local media said that police brought in the 34-year-old manager of the Nana backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng and (...)
A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who have died after apparently drinking tainted alcohol in Laos.
The family of Holly Bowles, 19, said it was with "broken hearts" (...)
Suspected methanol poisoning from tainted drinks has reportedly killed five tourists in a Laos holiday town in the past fortnight.
A British woman, an Australian woman, a US man and two Danish nationals have died, while another Australian woman (...)
Australian teen Bianca Jones has become the fourth tourist to have died in a suspected mass poisoning in Laos.
The 19-year-old's family confirmed her death to the media on Thursday. Hours earlier, the US State Department told the media that an (...)
For a harrowing week in August, Ruchika Tandon, a 44-year-old neurologist at one of India's top hospitals, was ensnared in what felt like a high-stakes federal crime investigation.
Yet, it was an elaborate scam — a web of deceit spun by scammers who (...)
Myanmar's military leader Min Aung Hlaing is on his first visit to China since he ousted the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.
The significant losses his regime has suffered in the civil war at the hands of poorly-armed (...)
Indonesia has called on East Asian nations to officially recognize the state of Palestine and urged the international community to uphold international law and principles of humanity, state-run media reported Friday.
Speaking at the East Asia Summit (...)
The number of people in Myanmar who have died in the wake of Typhoon Yagi rose to more than 220, with nearly 80 others still missing, the military government said.
The storm swept through northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar last week, (...)
MADINAH — The first batch of Umrah pilgrims, as part of the Guests of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program for Hajj, Umrah, and Visit, arrived in Madinah on Thursday. This initial group, under the initiative led by the Ministry of Islamic (...)
Myanmar is now the world's largest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan, a UN report says.
Its opium production this year is estimated to rise by 36% to 1,080 tonnes, far ahead of the 330 tonnes Afghanistan reportedly produced.
Poppy (...)
Fifty years after Henry Kissinger drove American foreign policy in Southeast Asia, the region continues to live with the fallout from the bombing and military campaigns backed by the former secretary of state, who died last week.
In Cambodia, (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday sent a strong message to the oil and gas industry: the pledges made at COP28 in Dubai fall well short of what's needed to meaningfully tackle the climate crisis.
As the fourth day of this year's UN (...)
The death of contentious former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has drawn nostalgia and compliments in China at a time when relations between the two countries have nosedived.
"You are forever a friend of Chinese people, rest in peace," a (...)
A Kashmir journalist who was arrested under India's sedition and anti-terror laws has returned home Thursday after being released on bail following nearly two years behind bars.
Fahad Shah, founding editor of The Kashmir Walla, an independent news (...)
For Chinese tourists in Bangkok, 76 Garage, an open-air restaurant on the northern outskirts of the Thai capital, has long been near the top of the list of places to visit.
There was a time when 76 Garage was so popular you needed to book a month in (...)
RIYADH — Leaders from Southeast Asia have begun arriving in the Saudi capital for the inaugural Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit scheduled for Friday.
The summit is anticipated to conclude with the issuance of a (...)
TAIF — The Saudi women's national football team kicked off their participation in the friendly international tournament with a goalless draw against Malaysia on Monday.
The match took place at the King Fahd Sports City Stadium in Taif, western Saudi (...)
People who use drugs in Thailand are receiving more help to reduce the harm caused by their habit thanks to a change in formerly punitive drug laws and support from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
"I first started taking drugs when I was (...)
Humans originated in Africa, but when exactly our earliest ancestors left the continent and how they spread around the world has been intensely debated by archaeologists.
Two fossils unearthed in a cave in northern Laos suggest that Homo sapiens, (...)
Southeast Asian countries will hold their first-ever joint military exercise in the South China Sea, Indonesian officials said on Thursday.
The decision was taken at a meeting of military commanders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian (...)
Every day, countless mopeds crisscross the congested city of Hanoi, in Vietnam, with commuters traveling to work or motorbike taxis dropping off everything from parcels to cooked food and clients.
One of them is Phong, 42, who starts his shift at 5 (...)
Drug traffickers have found new ways of smuggling crystal methamphetamine, known as ice, out of South East Asia to high-paying customers outside the region, according to a UN report.
Criminal gangs are moving more drugs by sea to evade land patrols (...)
A Laos political activist who was reported to have died after being shot point blank in the face and chest is alive, activists say.
The family of Anousa Luangsuphom, 25, has told Human Rights Watch (HRW) he is recovering in hospital after being shot (...)
A well-known critic of the Laos government has been shot dead in a late-night attack in the capital.
Anousa 'Jack' Luangsuphom, 25, was shot point-blank in the face and chest while sitting at a coffee shop on Saturday.
He had run the Kub Kluen Duay (...)
