Students in Indonesia’s Papua region protest free-meal program, demand free education instead Authorities responded with force, including the use of tear gas and warning shots.

Papua New Guinea’s opening of an embassy in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem has been condemned by Palestinian officials and by the Pacific island country’s opposition leader, who said it was a reckless ...

In Dili, Indonesia’s future means trying to forget about Timor-Leste’s past Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto, a former military officer, has been linked to alleged atrocities in Timor-Leste ...

Negotiators for the Thai government and southern insurgents agreed to hold meetings later this month and in March to discuss an “improved” roadmap to peace as well as a Ramadan and Songkran ceasefire, ...

Pacific island nations have tempered their protests against Indonesia’s rule in its volatile Papua region, a possible sign that Jakarta’s effort to silence some of its most vocal critics has gained ...

PNG reveals defense deal with US worth $864M No figure valuing the bilateral agreement signed in 2023 has previously been released.

An autonomous Muslim region in the southern Philippines that came out of a peace deal is struggling to end violence five years after being established and 15 months before its first-ever elections, ...

Residents of one of the largest informal settlements in Papua New Guinea’s capital fear eviction and homelessness next year when a major road will be built through their community. Port Moresby and ...

Thailand’s new government has appointed the first civilian to lead the country in Malaysia-brokered peace negotiations with separatist rebels in the mainly Malay Muslim Deep South, officials confirmed ...

Fiji’s fishing ship graveyard highlights lax Pacific dumping controls Dozens of derelict boats, mostly from China, pose environmental and navigation hazards in Suva harbor.

Adilur Rahman Khan, a leader of Odhikar, a Bangladeshi human rights advocacy group, looks on outside a court in Dhaka where he and a colleague were sentenced to two years in prison, Sept. 14, 2023.

Bougainville’s then President James Tanis washing the feet of Sir Julius Chan during a leadership reconciliation ceremony by traditional chiefs and church leaders, aimed at easing tensions arising ...