Hanoi - Vietnamese fishing authorities are angry over French television reports and websites alleging that Vietnamese catfish, known in Europe as pangassius or panga, are contaminated with pollution, …

SINGAPORE (AP) — Southeast Asian nations, under fire for being too lenient with Burma's junta, held an emergency meeting Monday to make it accept more international help for cyclone survivors.

BANGKOK: Financial markets in India, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand were closed on Monday for public holiday. Trading in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand will resume Tuesday. Indian markets wi…

– When Northern California activist Quan Quoc Nguyen sneaked into his native Vietnam last Nov. 15, crossing the Cambodian border on the back of a bicycle, he figured he had a 50 percent chance of be…

They are some of the world’s ugliest weapons — large, unreliable and notoriously inaccurate, wreaking havoc long after the end of armed conflict.

PHNOM PENH, 19 May 2008 (IRIN) - The spiralling cost of fertiliser is affecting up to half of Cambodia's two million farmers, including Lam Leng, a 30-year-old farmer from Kompong Speu Province, who t…

PARSIPPANY, NJ, May 16, 2008. Wyndham Hotel Group International today announced the appointment of Rajeev Panjwani as director of international development for Southeast Asia. Panjwani, who reports…

May 19 (Bloomberg) — Myanmar will allow its Asian neighbors to coordinate aid to regions hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis, almost three weeks after the storm lashed the country, killing more than 70,000 people.

(CNSNews.com) - More than two weeks after a massive cyclone hit Burma, foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are finally meeting on Monday to discuss how they can help the country respond to the disaster.

The Southeast Asian country will open nine dams of various sizes between 2010 and 2019 to generate 1,942 megawatts of power, according to a government report to parliament obtained by AFP. At least …