Southeast Asia News

Soon, your computers and personal data may no longer need an overly complicated or easily deciphered password to protect, only your beating heart.

Malaysian lawyers group Lawyers for Liberty will continue to seek justice for deported Saudi writer Hamzah Kashgari, who faces near certain execution for allegedly "Whether or not Hamza has been deported and already back in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia's Home Minister must still answer for the unlawful detention and deportation," human rights lawyer ... (more)

South soldiers train at a forest base near the group's headquarters in Loi Tai Leng, Shan State, in August 2011.

The tax on banks' total deposit holdings will increase from 0.4% to 0.47% from July 31, Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong said on Monday.

Patek is charged with premeditated murder for his role in making the bombs used in the Bali attacks, as well as conspiracy to commit terrorism and aid terrorists.

Umar Patek, an Indonesian militant charged in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks, arrives to his trial in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 13.

Nikon has released the first two models in the new Nikon 1 series, the Nikon 1 J1 and Nikon 1 V1.

Egco Group Plc, Thailand's first independent power producer, is committed to expanding renewable energy to 300 megawatts over the next several years from 46 MW now.

Wild welcome Aung San Suu Kyi stands in her car so crowds can see her as she campaigns for the first time in Kaw Hmu, in the southern constituency she hopes to represent.

Groups opposed to a rare-earths refinement plant in Malaysia plan to appeal against the atomic regulator's decision to grant Australian miner Lynas a temporary operating licence.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said the government is looking for 2 million rai of land to use as areas to hold flood water - given the likelihood that wet-season flooding this year could be as severe as last year.

President Benigno Simeon Aquino III in Dumaguete with Secretary Dinky Soliman helping rebuild homes.

He says Honolulu's historic, cultural and family ties with the Philippines are deep and strong.

The couples from both local and foreign countries dived 12 meters beneath the Andaman Sea to attend a traditional Thai wedding ceremony, mixed with obvious modern adaptations.

Three-quarters of the country, including popular tourist destinations such as the northern city of Chiang Mai and the ancient capital of Ayutthaya, has been gravely affected.

Malaysians expressed a collective sigh of relief when Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was acquitted of sodomy charges in early January.

Conflicting reports continue to emerge from the Philippines on whether Jemaah Islamiyah leader Zulkifli Abdul Hir @ Marwan has been killed in an air strike.

In an obscure part of southwest China, a refugee crisis from one of the world's longest running and least known conflicts in Myanmar is slowly unfolding, largely ignored by the outside world and denied by China.

In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 file photo, Shin Gambira, a prominent Buddhist monk who was one of hundreds of political prisoners freed in Myanmar, attends a ceremony of "Pray for Peace and Religious Unity" at a church in Yangon, Myanmar.

KUALA LUMPUR: A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Irian Jaya in Indonesia at 1.34 pm Friday, the Malaysian Meteorological Department said.