The film’s release on World Rainforest Day 2025 highlights Kayan River communities impacted in North Kalimantan.

Under a bill passed by Malaysia’s lower house last week, Malaysian mothers can transfer their citizenship to children born overseas – a right previously reserved only for Malaysian fathers. The ...

After living in Malaysia for 12 years without proper papers, Ramlah, an Indonesian woman, plans to return home through a voluntary repatriation program for foreign migrants that expires on Dec. 31, or ...

Pemerintah pusat juga terus menjalankan rencana membangun lima bendungan di tiga sungai di Kalimantan Utara sebagai bagian dari proyek pembangkit listrik tenaga air terbesar di Asia Tenggara. Proyek ...

The U.S. administration has withheld the funding that we rely on to bring our readers and viewers the news from Indonesia, ...

As a proud naturalized citizen of Vanuatu, I am fond of my green passport with the country’s flag emblazoned on its corner. An added benefit is that it offers visa-free access to the 27 countries that ...

Clashes between police and protesters escalated in Bangladesh on Friday, the second day of a “complete shutdown” declared by students demanding an end to a job quota system. A BenarNews journalist ...

Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation as it prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence. Nine people were ...

Palau’s hi-tech mission to preserve Pacific’s oldest monuments 2,400-year-old earthworks revealed as predating stone moai statues of Rapa Nui and megalithic Nan Madol in Micronesia.

Palauan Sharla Paules surveys the contaminated ground of her lush tropical home island of Peleliu, still littered with WWII munitions 80 years after its liberation from the Japanese. She recalls as a ...

Parts of Suva harbor in Fiji resemble a ship graveyard with more than two dozen rusting and unseaworthy vessels abandoned due to financial problems by their foreign owners and enabled by policy ...

Pacific island children are experiencing “alarming” violence and abuse, amongst the highest rates in the world, amid a lack of government-funded services, religious and cultural barriers and growing ...