A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them with ...

China is expanding its military presence beyond East Asia as it operates the world’s largest navy by number of hulls.

When Taiwanese traveler Eric Weng goes to South Korea, he resigns himself to toggling between three different map applications to navigate his way around. That’s because Google Maps, ubiquitous in ...

On BBC Verify we’ve been looking at images of extreme weather patterns across southern Asia and we’ve now obtained satellite ...

Flooding across much of south-east Asia fuelled by a rare cluster of three tropical storms has claimed the lives of more than 400 people in five countries, with Indonesia and Thailand the worst hit so ...

More than 1,160 people have died as large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have been flooded after cyclones dumped ...

The deluge has hit 10 provinces across the country's south over the past week, with the city of Hat Yai, a business hub ...

Hundreds have been killed across South East Asia, with monsoons exacerbated by cyclones also affecting Thailand and Malaysia.

Indonesia and Sri Lanka hit hardest as climate change-boosted monsoon flooding wreaks havoc across Southeast Asian nations.

Some people may be dimly aware that Thailand's chilies and Italy's tomatoes — despite being central to their respective local cuisines — originated in South America. Now, for the first time, a new ...

LAST YEAR a remarkable if informal confederacy formed online across Asia, in scarcely the time it takes to boil a kettle: the Milk Tea Alliance. Its members were young activists, mostly in South-East ...

Heavy rainfall is typical for this time of year, but recent downpours have been notable for their intensity and impact. Read ...