Beloved dugong chokes on Thai plastic
An eight-month-old dugong that won the hearts of numerous animal lovers in Thailand has died after choking on plastic waste.The orphaned female, named Marium,...
80% of forest fires in Indonesia: report
Almost four-fifths of hotspots detected in Asean over the past month are in Indonesia, according to the Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC).Forest fires...
Indonesia pushes ahead with capital shift
The Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, is pushing ahead with a plan to move Indonesia’s capital to Borneo to reduce pollution and congestion in sinking...
Drought exposes submerged Thai temple
Buddhists are visiting a temple in central Thailand exposed by a record drought that has caused the retreat of a reservoir which submerged the...
Live pangolins found on Vietnam bus
Thirty live pangolins have been found individually wrapped in a box on a bus in Vietnam’s Ha Tinh province that had come from Laos. The...
Singapore innovates to offset trade turmoil
Singapore is investing in ideas that could define the way cities are built and run in future, making it a test case for urban...
Drug-resistant malaria spreads across Asean
Only half of Asean’s patients with malaria are being cured because multi-drug resistant forms of the disease are spreading.The Lancet Infectious Diseases published...
Indonesia sends back US trash
Indonesia has followed the Philippines and Malaysia and returned five sea containers of trash to the United States, saying it will not become a...
Thailand abattoir shame revealed amid disease fears
Undercover pictures taken in an abattoir in central Thailand show men bludgeoning pigs to death with clubs and using illegal homemade stunning machines. Thai law...
Philippine wrestles with giant mango surplus
The Philippines is facing a surplus of millions of extra mangoes, with the agriculture minister, Emmanuel Piñol, saying farmers had reported an unusual increase...
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Widodo hands Indonesia defence job to brutal rival
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has named his presidential challenger, Prabowo Subianto, as his defence minister.The disgraced former general is accused of human rights...
ADB commits financing for Philippine tourism hubs
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) has opened its doors for the Philippines to boost and develop two of its infamous tourism hubs.ADB said in...
Asean coal power plant construction falls
The number of new coal power plants under construction across Asean has fallen over the past two years, causing fears for Australian exporters of...