The Asia-Pacific region remains significantly off track in its sustainable development goals, or SDGs, with most advancing ...

A bundle of firewood lay abandoned on the path, a silent witness to tragedy. Nearby, a red shawl, once wrapped around Chandra ...

Southeast Asia’s peatlands and mangroves store immense amounts of carbon, yet they’re rapidly disappearing. A new study finds that conserving and restoring these ecosystems could cut the region’s ...

Once a pristine fishing hamlet, Tanjung Uma is now drowning in garbage and disease as it bears the brunt of unchecked waste ...

TOKYO -- Developing countries are under rising pressure from their debt loads as new flows of credit from China and the private sector dry up. Low- and middle-income countries' balance of ...

East Timor would prefer to work with Australia and partners Woodside Energy and Japan’s Osaka Gas over Chinese firms that have expressed interest in developing the stalled Greater Sunrise ...

In May 2018, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Southeast Asia program convened a workshop to examine the direction of the U.S.-Southeast Asia relationship from the present to 2030. The workshop ...

Jaipur, Feb 1 (IANS): Congress National General Secretary, Sachin Pilot, criticised the Union Budget presented in Parliament on Saturday, calling it “politically driven” and “short-sighted”, with a ...

Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of poverty. In 2023, 48.4% of its population lived in extreme poverty, with low life expectancy and high infant mortality.

While Tokyo will not likely hurry to rejig its forecasts, DeepSeek's seemingly leaner models have triggered a broad rethink of AI energy needs that the world's most resource-poor major economy ...

A family who said they could hear hospital staff laughing in a nearby room as their son was taken off life support were given "poor bereavement" care, an investigation has found. Five-year-old ...