Story Archive

IMF returns to Papua New Guinea after a stormy past

2024-03-03

Prime Minister James Marape says the IMF is working with PNG not dictating policy to it.

Officials: No fire exits, single stairway in Dhaka building where fire killed dozens

2024-03-01

Gas cylinders blocked the only narrow staircase leading to the exit, making escape very difficult, authorities add.

Scenes from a Dhaka inferno

2024-03-01

The blaze broke out in a first-floor restaurant and soon engulfed the remaining six floors.

Millions of Thai borrowers struggle to get out of debt

2024-03-01

Thailand’s new government has launched a program to reduce the nation’s household debt, which is among Asia’s worst.

Global media watchdogs press Philippine authorities to act on journalist’s 2011 murder

2024-03-01

Coalition says they shared information with officials on where the main fugitive suspect is believed to be hiding out.

In Malaysia, refugees living in limbo struggle to pay medical bills

2024-03-01

Refugees pay much higher foreigners’ rates at public hospitals and clinics, which most cannot afford.

Junta troops abduct 40 relatives of Muslim camp residents who fled conscription

2024-03-01

Some were publicly beaten for allegedly speaking to the media about recruitment efforts.