ASEAN

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TRIPA PEAT SWAMP, Indonesia — The Tripa peat forest has been called the orangutan capital of the world, but its great apes are under threat by palm oil plantations gobbling up thousands of acres of native vegetation to instead grow the trees that produce the most consumed vegetable oil on the planet.

YANGON — A mob in Myanmar's western Rakhine State killed a member of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority and injured six others who were on a police-guarded trip Tuesday from the displacement camp where they live to the city that many Rohingya were forced to flee five years ago.

KAWIT, Philippines — A group of left-wing activists heckled and disrupted a televised Independence Day speech Tuesday by the Philippine president and called him a "traitor" amid criticism of his handling of territorial disputes with China.

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia — Prosecutors asked a Malaysian court Wednesday to restore expunged details in the post-mortem report into the poisoning death of the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader.

PHNOM PENH — Cambodian police have arrested five people on charges of providing commercial surrogate services, an official said Saturday. Four Cambodian women and a...

BANGKOK — Myanmar's presidential spokesman said Monday that the president authorized the arrest last week of two Reuters reporters for allegedly violating the state secrets act.

JAKARTA — Indonesia has officially joined bidding to host the 2032 Olympics following its success staging the Asian Games last year, the deputy chairman...

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia's new government has repealed a widely criticized law prohibiting "fake news," in a move hailed as a landmark moment for...

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