Southeast Asia

The 45-year-old son of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen will take office on August 22, pending a parliamentary vote of confidence.

The U.S. embassy in Manila has raised concerns about the involvement of a blacklisted Chinese firm in the ongoing projects.

Indonesia could unwittingly be drawn into great-power military conflict due to its strategic location, especially if a China-U.S. clash happens in Indonesian waters.

Much public attention has focused on the plight of Indonesian workers employed in Chinese-owned enterprises. But a new report shows that Chinese nationals face many of the same challenges.

The outgoing leader said that he may be obliged to retake the prime ministership in the event of instability or in-fighting.

The vote has been postponed until after the Constitutional Court rules on an appeal by the Move Forward Party against lawmakers’ decision to block its leader from being renominated as prime minister.

As the country's leader prepared to hand over power to his son, Indonesian police made arrests connected to an Cambodia-based organ harvesting ring.

Panji Gumilang, 77, heads a school where women are allowed to preach and pray alongside men.

The lack of progress on the 555-kilometer railway linking Vung Ang to the Lao capital Vientiane contrasts starkly with the recently completed Kunming-Vientiane line.

The split has had an air of inevitability, given the conservative opposition to the MFP's progressive policy agenda.

Much discussion about China's role in the refurbishment of the base has overlooked Phnom Penh's own economic and security imperatives.

For years, the caretaker chief minister of Kedah state and his party have whipped up Malay grievances that threaten to undermine the country's ethnic and social cohesion.