A total of 6,065 candidates involving 91 political parties and 310 independent runners will compete for seats in parliament.

The forest and agriculture fires have massively spread across the nation, killing at least 17 people, affecting 43 million others.

The Chinese government has been actively supporting Chinese enterprises to engage in infrastructure construction in ASEAN, including Cambodia.

From 2005 to 2014, the Asia-Pacific region had 1,625 reported disaster events, leaving approximately 500,000 people...

At least four people were killed in a vehicular accident in southern Philippines, a police spokesperson for the ...

Myanmar will introduce electric train to run in Yangon in December this year in order to tackle traffic congesti...

Six officials of Vietnamese railway sector have been sentenced imprisonment in a trial for "abusing power while o...

Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) service was disrupted along the North East Line for nearly two hours dur...

A joint declaration was issued at the Ministerial Meeting on Law Enforcement & Security Cooperation along the Mek...

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (IFRC) on Friday warned that longer term support is needed...

Indonesia's eastern city of Kupang was scheduled to host the initial Melanesian Festival from Oct. 26-30, aime...

Myanmar has set up polling stations at its 44 embassies and consulates around the world for vote casting.

Myanmar's foreign trade amounted to 13.88 billion U.S. dollars in the first six months (April-September) of the fiscal year 2015-16.

Two men have been arrested and some 90,000 amphetamine-type stimulant pills were seized after an unregistered pickup was stopped at a police roadblock.

More than half a million hectares of rice paddy were affected and almost a quarter of a million livestock killed, including poultry, cattle, pigs and goats.

The Indonesian government has launched the biggest operation ever to combat the regular forest fires with the aids from neighboring ASEAN countries, as well as Australia and Japan.

The 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment (AMME 13) is scheduled to be held in Vietnam's capital during Oct. 26-31.

BANGKOK, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thai constitution drafters are expected to complete the first version of a new perm...

People celebrated the one year anniversary of Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

Myanmar government will prioritize development projects in areas covered by ceasefire accord, an official report qu...

since Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had a poor showing in the surveys, he decided to settle for the second highest position in the Philippines.

Myanmar's Union Election Commission has confirmed that the date of the country's 2015 general election rema...

Indonesia has identified 12 plantation firms as responsible for the current forest fire and legal process against...

A mayor was killed while four of his entourage wounded in an ambush on Monday in the southern Philippine provin...

Over 200 delegates from member economies of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) are expected to participa...