 Flores man ... a model of a skull from the newly found species of hobbit-sized humans that lived about 18,000 years ago in Indonesia. |
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A CSIRO report has warned climate change will threaten the region's economy and security unless governments and aid agencies start preparing for its impacts.
The two-part CSIRO report was commissioned by a new coalition of aid, church and development groups.
It warns that a two degrees Celsius increase in temperature by 2030 will have a devastating impact in northern Pakistan, India and western China.
Thailand's newly-appointed interim Prime Minister General Surayud Chulanont has spent his first day trying to mend bridges with the United States, which has been a vocal critic of the military coup 13 days ago.
A new poll has found most Australians are wary of neighbouring Indonesia, despite knowing little about the country.
Thailand's military-installed premier Surayud Chulanont has unveiled his Cabinet after receiving approval from the country's revered King, an official said.
The thick haze from forest fires in Indonesia that enveloped Singapore's skies and sent its pollution index to a nine-year high has cleared up markedly.
At least 19 children have been killed on their way to school in central Vietnam when their boat capsized, an official says.
Two Australian men have been arrested in Siem Reap, the gateway to Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples, accused of stealing artifacts from the complex, local police say.
Technicians in Indonesia struggling to divert a vast mud flow into the sea failed again in their attempts to move the noxious sludge by pump, an official said.
Singapore's environment agency has issued a health advisory as thick haze from fires in Indonesia choke the city-state.
The former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, has been found not guilty in one of dozens of corruption cases against her.
More than 70 people in Vietnam have been confirmed dead or missing as a result of Typhoon Xangsane, which also injured over 520 people, disaster relief officials say.
Cambodia's Prime Minister, Hun Sen, has warned would-be coup plotters any attempt to oust him would be impossible, just three days before his visit to Australia.
Thailand's military-backed premier Surayud Chulanont says he will name his cabinet within a week of taking office and appears to be considering leading bankers for several posts.
Thailand's coup leader says there are no plans to lift martial law any time soon, resisting pressure from human rights groups and foreign governments, including the US.
Indonesia's Supreme Court has quashed a murder conviction and a 14-year jail term given to a pilot over the death of a leading human rights activist.
The United States has urged Thailand's military coup leaders to lift martial law within seven to 10 days and to bring forward elections the generals have promised for late next year.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Singapore's ban on the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine is in retaliation for critical news coverage.
The death toll from Typhoon Xangsane in the Philippines and Vietnam has neared 250, and dozens more are still missing as officials warn flash floods and landslides could claim more lives.
Prime Minister John Howard says he is concerned by suggestions by a pro-independence Papuan leader that preparations are under way for an exodus of asylum seekers from the Indonesian province to Australia.
Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has resigned as head of his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party, triggering the dissolution of its entire executive in the wake of last month's military coup.
Australian soldiers in East Timor are facing disciplinary action after driving several armoured personnel carriers (APC) into the sea, off Dili's main beach.
The death toll from typhoon Xangsane in the Philippines has more than doubled to at least 161 with at least 72 others still reported missing, according to civil defence officials.
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone says she hopes a group of Papuan separatists will not send another boat load of asylum seekers to Australia.
Seventeen ethnic minority villagers have been killed in Burma in clashes between the military and an insurgent group battling the junta, state-run media have reported.
At least five people have been wounded in clashes between Philippine soldiers and Muslim insurgents in the south, but rebels say a 2003 cease-fire will still hold.
Thailand's new Prime Minister has pledged to focus on national reconciliation and "people's happiness" in the wake of last month's military coup against Thaksin Shinawatra.
Northern Territory health officials have embarked on a public education campaign in provincial East Timor, teaching locals how to monitor and control disease-spreading mosquitoes.
Indonesia's Defence Minister has defended the military's presence in Papua as necessary to prevent a slide into tribal warfare, amid allegations the army has abused indigenous Papuans.
Twenty-three people have been killed and 17 others are missing after a bus was swept off a bridge by a swollen river in the central Philippines, police say. | 