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The film’s release on World Rainforest Day 2025 highlights Kayan River communities impacted in North Kalimantan.
A protester gestures as he and others clash with Border Guard Bangladesh and police outside the state-owned Bangladesh Television station in Dhaka, July 19, 2024. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters) ...
Roger Hess, a member of the mine action group Norwegian People’s Aid, holds a Type 91 grenade used by the Japanese military during WWII on the island of Peleliu, Palau, Nov. 26, 2024. (Harry ...
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 ...
A still image taken from a report on Feb. 22, 2023 by the Vanuatu Broadcasting Television Corporation about the nation's investor migration schemes. (VBTC) As a proud naturalized citizen of Vanuatu, I ...
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 ...
People from all walks of life protest in front of the High Court in Dhaka to support the “March for Justice” rally to protest alleged violence against university students, July 31, 2024. (BenarNews) ...
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 ...
Malaysia’s Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (left) welcomes Brian Nelson, U.S. Department of the Treasury’s under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, before their official ...
Malaysian facilitator Zulkifli Zainal Abidin (center), flanked by chief Thai negotiator Chatchai Bangchuad and Barisan Revolusi Nasional panel chief Anas Abdulrahman, speaks to reporters in Kuala ...
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 ...
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 ...