An Indonesian company and its Chinese partner are pushing ahead with an industrial wood plantation in a tropical forest and orangutan habitat on Borneo, apparently flouting government fire-prevention ...

Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency says the number of dry season fires has jumped to more than 500 and a sixth province has declared a state of emergency...

At least 10 U.S. sailors are missing after the USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy's 7th Fleet in two months...

Hyundai Motor says its new hydrogen fuel cell vehicle will travel more than 580 kilometers (360 miles) between fill-ups...

Taiwanese singer and actress Rainie Yang stars in "The Tag Along 2," a sequel to the 2015 hit that's loosely based on a ghostly urban legend in Taiwan...

Changing tastes brew bitter times for Japan's beer makers as "salaryman" style after work drinks lose appeal...

The Philippines will cull at least 200,000 birds after confirming its first bird flu outbreak, but no animal-to-human transmission has been reported...

China is expressing its "strong dissatisfaction" with the U.S. over the Navy's freedom of navigation operation in which a warship sailed past one of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea...

The endangered Japanese summer delicacy of roasted eel, braised with a tangy sauce and sprinkled with prickly mountain pepper, may get a new lease on life with commercial farming...

A local government in southwest China says the death toll from a strong earthquake has risen to 13 with 175 injured...