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

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits a vandalized metro station in Mirpur, a Dhaka neighborhood, following pro-democracy protests, July 25, 2024. (Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Office/AFP) The ...

An aerial view of Ouballang terrace, the largest of a series of ancient man-made earthworks spread across Aimeliik state in Palau on Nov. 29, 2024. (Rivers Reklai/BenarNews) Palauan tourism official ...

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Department officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force removed unexploded ordnance at St Nicholas School in the capital Honiara, on Aug. 20 2024. (RSIPF) A stockpile ...

Dozens of Papuans protest in front of the Puncak Jaya police station in Central Papua province, Indonesia, following the shooting deaths of three men by security forces, July 17, 2024. (BenarNews) ...

Front pages of the Post Courier newspaper from Jan. 2 and Jan. 8, 2025. (Supplied) Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation ...

American and Filipino troops on Monday thwarted an attack by an imagined enemy force from waters in the northern Philippines across from Taiwan, as the two military allies staged live-fire drills ...

Britain's King Charles III (R) talks to Samoa's Prime Minister Afioga Fiame Naomi Mata'afa during the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa, on Oct.

Sharon Bagwan Rolls of Pacific Women Mediators Network, Sheila Babauta of Commonwealth 670, Louise Wall of ILGA Oceania and Olivia Baro of the Pacific Conference of Churches prepare for the opening of ...

In Thailand, prostitution remains illegal, leaving an estimated 250,000 sex workers vulnerable to exploitation and legal action/arrests. But advocates for the rights of sex workers in Thailand are ...

A man participates in a protest outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population, in The ...

Motorcyclists ride past debris and a fire in Meulaboh, Aceh province, Indonesia, in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Jan. 9, 2005. (Philippe Desmazes/AFP) Faced with the daunting task of ...