Bangladesh’s interim government has charged 19 Hindus under stringent sedition law over hoisting saffron flag, media reports show. At least two people have been detained in the case, amid large scale ...

Short-term prospects for Asia and the Pacific have improved slightly compared to the IMF’s April forecasts, even though growth is still expected to moderate in 2024 and 2025. The regional growth ...

His packed trip to Asia involves three countries in which Catholics are a minority. As the US, China and UK try to woo Pacific Islands for geopolitical reasons, nations are more concerned about ...

A dispute over the display of Chinese flags at a festival in Malaysia’s Perak state intensified over the weekend after hundreds converged on the same town to unfurl their country’s banner in a ...

The Malaysian public has been cautioned against inciting racial sentiments about a cultural event where Chinese flags were publicly displayed in Perak state’s Teluk Intan or risk being investigated.

Oct. 25 (UPI) --In the lead-up to his election, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba floated the idea of an "Asian NATO" to deter the increasing aggressiveness of China in the Asia-Pacific region.

“Situation in the Middle East, West Asia for us, is an understandable concern,” Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar told the BRICS Outreach Session in Russia's southwestern city of ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Leaders and officials gathered in the Samoan capital on Thursday ahead of a meeting of leaders from ...

The region’s accelerated extinction rate could result in a loss of natural capital that could put 63 per cent of the Asia Pacific region’s gross domestic product at risk, shaving off some US$19 ...

Filial piety and respect for elders are important cultural values in Asian American and Pacific Islander cultures, and AAPIs are more likely to resist placing their elders in institutional facilities.