Michael Sullivan

Plastic is choking our oceans. Inspired by Gandhi's activism, two young women on the island of Bali are on a mission to do something about it.

The Rooster brand, ubiquitous in the U.S., is now being exported to Thailand, where Sriracha was born. But many Thais who taste the U.S. version are not impressed. "I wanted to gag," says one.

The case of a Saudi woman who took refuge in a Bangkok hotel room as she sought asylum in a third country has highlighted Thailand's checkered history of dealing with similar cases.

A young Saudi woman is holed up in a hotel in Bangkok hotel after flying to Thailand en route to Australia, where she said she hoped to seek asylum from her abusive family.

Officials say the tsunami was triggered by underwater landslides caused by volcanic activity on the island of Anak Krakatau.

Bangkok is a chaotic mélange of modernity and old Southeast Asia charm. The two manage to peacefully co-exist most of the time, but earlier this month they collided.

Bangladesh's long-planned repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar is in motion. Myanmar says it will accept the refugees but many say they fear for their lives if they return to Myanmar.

Microcameras installed in public bathrooms for surreptitious filming are an everyday concern for women. Police say the number of "illegal filming" crimes sharply increased between 2011 and 2017.

Authorities in Myanmar arrested three leading journalists after their paper published a piece exposing a financial scheme led by a protégé and confidant of Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Chinese companies are building infrastructure and dams along the vast river that runs through five Southeast Asian countries before emptying into the South China Sea.

South Korea has really fast Internet. And really good tech. That's a really big problem when it comes to men who surreptitiously record women in all sorts of public places.

South Korea is in a bit of a quandary. It's been making nice with the North since President Moon came to power. President Trump's dual track diplomacy has suited that policy well, until last week.

Families from South and North Korea met in North Korea this week for family reunions after a three year hiatus.

On Monday, a group of South Koreans boarded a bus and traveled to North Korea for reunions with relatives who became separated before and during the Korean War.

With tensions easing between North and South Korea, the two sides are reviving cross-border reunions that began in 1985. On Monday, 93 South Koreans will board buses to visit relatives in the North.

At least 91 people are dead after an earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Lombok Sunday, jolting nearby Bali. The quake comes a week after another earthquake hit both tourist destinations.

The group of Thai boys who were trapped in a cave have spoken to the media for the first time in a news conference.

After two weeks, all 12 boys and their soccer coach were successfully rescued from a cave in Thailand. They were trapped in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system after heavy rains flooded passages.

Divers brought out the final four boys and their soccer coach from a cave near the Thai-Myanmar border, extracting the team through a labyrinth of tight passages after they spent two weeks trapped.

Four more boys were rescued after being trapped in a cave in Thailand — bringing the total out of the cave to eight. Four more boys and their soccer coach remain in the cave.