Southeast Asia

The head of the state-owned firm Bio Farma says that the development of IndoVac will "help reduce the nation's dependency on imported vaccines."

China’s leader has leveraged a boyhood connection into a blooming strategic partnership.

On the same day as the vote, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed his attendance at next month's APEC Summit in Bangkok.

Since the coup of February 2021, the country has become a worse jailer of journalists than China.

The Cambodian leader may have wanted simply to clear his name – but there is another, more chilling, explanation.

New convictions extend the NLD leader's prison term, an effort critics of the military government say is designed to keep her from contesting elections planned for 2023.

Planners are banking on strong economic growth, reduced inflation, and a strengthening peso in 2023. But are these assumptions sound?

The journalist and Nobel laureate faces a number of charges relating to her pioneering work at the local news site Rappler.

That such a rights-abusing state could win election to the body speaks to structural problems in the current international human rights regime.

Despite its official motto of "unity in diversity," the country is becoming increasingly inhospitable for members of religious minorities.

Exiled opposition figure Sam Rainsy had accused Prime Minister Hun Sen of responsibility for the deaths of a leading Cambodian trade unionist and the former chief of police.

The attack testified to the horrifying vision of the now-defunct Jemaah Islamiyah, which aimed to establish an Islamic Caliphate in Southeast Asia.