Southeast Asia

The rescue off the coast of Aceh underscores the extreme dangers that many refugees are exposing themselves to in order to find sanctuary abroad.

The sector has made a roaring recovery since the doldrums of the Asian Financial Crisis of the late 1990s.

Vo Van Thuong resignation comes barely a year after his appointment to the largely ceremonial post.

According to the official results released yesterday, the former general won around 58 percent of the vote on February 14.

Vo Van Thuong is the second Vietnamese president to resign in two years.

Ethnic Cham followers of the Kan Imam San order are promised a better life if they convert to Sunni Islam, but many prefer to hold onto their own traditions.

The Commonwealth Games Federation is frantically seeking replacements for the Australian state of Victoria, which pulled out of hosting last year due to spiraling costs.

Truong My Lan, the head of a Ho Chi Minh City-based real estate group, has been accused of the biggest fraud in the country’s history

While differences remain, the two nations are experiencing an increasing strategic convergence on the South China Sea.

Could aging societies lead to more political polarization and upheaval?

Unlike like most past defense chiefs, Sutin Klungsang is a civilian politician with virtually no experience in security matters.

While in Manila, Blinken reiterated that the U.S. is obligated to defend the Philippines if Filipino forces, ships, or aircraft come under an armed attack anywhere in the South China Sea.