Malaysian immigration officials on Friday reported separating Rohingya from other detainees after 131 refugees in custody broke out of detention this week and one was struck and killed by a car.
Bangladesh’s health department in mid-January began efforts to shut down more than 700 hospitals and clinics operating without proper accreditation, following an order from the country’s new health minister, officials said Thursday.
Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region on Wednesday said they would like to release a New Zealand pilot taken hostage nearly a year ago, but officials in Jakarta and Wellington were delaying negotiations for his freedom.
The Philippine Senate has summoned former President Rodrigo Duterte’s spiritual adviser, a televangelist preacher wanted in the United States on suspicion of sexual trafficking and fraud, to testify in response to allegations of sexual abuse, according to a senatorial aide
Two Malaysian terror suspects pleaded guilty to murder in the 2002 Bali bombings – Indonesia’s deadliest terrorist attack – as they appeared in a U.S. military court on Tuesday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they have been incarcerated for at least 17 years.
Malaysia’s first crowdfunded feature film, which deals with racial tensions in the multiethnic nation, has become a runaway hit, amassing more than half a million views within a week of its release via social media.
The death toll from a fire at a China-owned nickel smelter in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province has risen to 18, with 44 others injured, officials said Tuesday.
Freedom House, a Washington-based NGO, said the harassment and persecution back home of family members of exiled government critics and journalists is a widespread tactic in transnational repression carried out by authoritarian governments across the globe.
Bangladesh’s birth as a nation in 1971 was violent, coming out of a war partly ignited by the then-Pakistani military government’s refusal to honor the results of a democratic election.
A Filipino caregiver and ex-hostage, who had been held captive for nearly seven weeks by Hamas militants in Gaza, arrived home to the Philippines on Monday to a tearful reunion with his family.