Photos: Death toll soars in Bangladesh unrest A BenarNews journalist witnessed Border Guard Bangladesh members shoot three youths.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reaffirmed the Trump administration’s defense commitments to America’s Pacific territories of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands and that any attack on them ...

How the 2014 coup continues to shape Thai politics Thailand’s military still has sway over the government, although a new civilian-led administration is in place, analyst Zachary Abuza writes.

Women candidates challenge Vanuatu’s male-dominated politics at snap election A national election will go ahead this week despite a devastating earthquake in the capital Port Vila last month.

Pacific governments warned of ‘threat’ from Cambodia’s Prince Group A U.S.-based think-tank says the company could help China expand its influence.

Pacific island nations have tempered their protests against Indonesia’s rule in its volatile Papua region, a possible sign that Jakarta’s effort to silence some of its most vocal critics has gained ...

Unexploded WWII bombs plague Palau amid US military build-up UXOs contaminate the Pacific but there's little clean-up funding despite hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on new defense ...

Mass killing and ‘cannibalism’ video mar start of PNG’s 50th anniversary year Tribal violence during the New Year highlights increasing lawlessness and lack of police resources.

Climate ‘flashpoint’ looms for Trump’s China-centric focus on Pacific: US analysts Deepening U.S. engagement with the Pacific is now firmly a consensus issue in Washington.

The latest satellite imagery has revealed a new airstrip taking shape on Barque Canada reef, an artificial island developed by Vietnam in the disputed Spratly archipelago in the South China Sea.

Pacific leaders, Japan agree on Fukushima radioactive water discharge Monitoring will continue for decades while the contaminated waste is released from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Palau’s hi-tech mission to preserve Pacific’s oldest monuments 2,400-year-old earthworks revealed as predating stone moai statues of Rapa Nui and megalithic Nan Madol in Micronesia.