resident Prabowo Subianto has voiced support for Papua New Guinea’s bid to join ASEAN, saying that the move would boost the bloc’s influence and resilience amid growing geopolitical uncertainty.

The U.S. Defense Department is funding a $400 million fuel storage facility in Papua New Guinea as part of the ... and Central Asia,” the release said. The announcement follows a U.S. Navy ...

Freshfields has appointed the head of its Asia financial services practice as its Asia-wide managing partner, as the former head leaves to study leadership at Harvard. Matthew O’Callaghan ...

Myanmar's catastrophic earthquake last month came amid a flurry of smaller earthquakes across the Asia Pacific ... and on April 5 Papua New Guinea felt another magnitude-6.9 quake.

United Airlines announced new routes from the United States to Asia and Australia. The new destinations include Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The flights debut in the fall and winter of ...

Languages: English. John Feng is Newsweek's contributing editor for Asia based in Taichung, Taiwan. His focus is on East Asian politics. He has covered foreign policy and defense matters ...

A major, 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Myanmar on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. At a depth of about six miles, the quake was relatively shallow, which made it ...

Vietnam is stepping up inspections of particular children’s toys over concerns that imagery on the model’s face resembles a map China uses to stake competing territorial claims in the South ...

China’s fleet has triggered protests from Japan, India and others, but that hasn’t stopped Beijing from launching long missions to map the sea floor. The data they obtain has numerous ...

A defence deal being forged between Australia and Papua New Guinea may signal Canberra’s bid to use the Pacific island nation as a base to keep a closer watch on Chinese naval activities in the ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...