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But the state’s new government says it is moving to reverse that.

A fatwa from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) calls for transgender people to be executed for same-sex acts.

The U.S., meanwhile, presses the Thai government to do more to protect foreign seafood workers.

A special court has summoned Manmohan Singh and five others implicated in a corruption scandal around coal-mining licenses.

Md. Anowar Hossain and Helal Uddin were held captive for more than two weeks.

Elections will take place next month in Bangladesh’s two biggest cities.

In outburst at media, junta leader warns of consequences for those who criticize too much.

Weapons were also seized in a raid in Toh Sud village of Tung Dang district, military sources say.

Justices strike down a controversial clause, citing public’s right to know.

For years, Luh Putu Noni Marheni says, she kept waiting for her father to come home.

Farmers, plantation workers and families suffer as a result.

The life and times of Singapore’s founding father inter-weaved Malaysia’s story.

BJP-PDP coalition government moves swiftly to implement campaign promises

People’s incomes are plummeting, while the cost of living is rising.

A Malaysian, Thai and Iranian are named as suspects in separate probes.

The terror group has destroyed ancient cities and artifacts in Iraq, and claimed responsibility for this week’s attack at Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum that ...

Deadly raids are a regular occurrence in Kathua, near the India-Pakistan border.

Courts hand down sentences in a 2013 bombing in Bangkok and a 2012 roadside bomb in Pattani province.

The state turns the case over to central government investigators, after coming up with no arrests.

Sponsors of legislation sanctioning stoning and amputations will now try to get these punishments through parliament.

The four face charges of financing international terrorism and violating immigration laws, officials say.

Plainclothes police picked him up from his hiding place on March 10, his wife alleges.

The insurgency in the far southern region has contributed to delays.

Both the ruling and opposition blocs are split over a party’s proposal to amend a state’s Islamic laws.

Judicial action in the Ahmed Rajib Haider case comes less than month after the murder of another secular blogger, Avijit Roy.

A Malaysian, Thai and Iranian are named as suspects in separate probes.

The video is reportedly the first to show Southeast Asian kids being trained for jihadist combat.

Security forces in Pattani province launch operation to flush out militants in wake of reported bomb plot.

Protestors call for protections against sexual violence and hateful acts against a religious minority.

The police chief says she is being held for questioning over “contemptuous remarks.”