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The film’s release on World Rainforest Day 2025 highlights Kayan River communities impacted in North Kalimantan.
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 ...
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 ...
Prabowo Subianto is sworn in as Indonesia’s new president during an inauguration ceremony at the House of Representatives building in Jakarta, Oct. 20, 2024. (Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters) The Prabowo ...
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 ...
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 ...
PNG Prime Minister James Marape (L), Autonomous Bougainville Government President Ishmael Toroama (center) and moderator Sir Jerry Mateparae at a news conference in Port Moresby, PNG, on Thursday ...
Rohingya children walk along at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, June 26, 2024. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters) When Bangladesh's government announced it was shutting down the ...
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.
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 ...