Breaking Asia Pacific Travel News

Myanmar's junta has officially transformed the rebel army of the Kokang region into a border guard force under its command, state media reported Saturday. A ceremony marking the metamorphosis from former rebel force to the Kokang border guards was held...

Several fire crews attended the blaze at Hobart Ave early this morning. It was not until firefighters searched the low-set house that they found the body of a woman...Investigators are on their way to determine how the fire started.

Indonesia probes nightclub fire after 20 killed Indonesian authorities were investigating the cause of a fire that ripped through a karaoke bar in the country's third-biggest city of Medan killing 20 people, police said on Saturday.   The fire on...

Ferrer is a strong contender for the position of Armed Forces Chief of Staff, but for one glaring weak spot. Ferrer, commander of Eastern Mindanao Command and newly designated martial law administrator for Maguindanao, does not belong to President Gloria...

Collaboration between the agencies and CHR involves sharing of expertise amidst parallel investigations into the criminal, administrative and human rights aspects of the case. ”It’s not an abrogation of each institution’s individual mandates – the avowed purpose in collaboration is...

The NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) said firefighters will continue to work overnight on containing a fire burning in bushland north of Eglinton in Bathurst in the NSW central west. The fire was threatening properties earlier on Friday, but no...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak will pen a new chapter in his country�s relationship with Thailand during an upcoming visit. He will be the first Malaysian leader to venture into Thailand�s southern provinces, where an insurgency has been raging...

According to the Indian newspaper, The Telegraph, they said that more than one hundred militants were living in camps inside Burma. Guwahati [capital of Assam] who were there in Burma for training and other activities,” he said. India had offered...

The Armed Forces of the Philippines-National Capital Region Command on Thursday placed its troops on heightened alert as part of the pre-emptive measures against possible spillover of violence from Maguindanao to Metro Manila. The massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao...