The film’s release on World Rainforest Day 2025 highlights Kayan River communities impacted in North Kalimantan.

A protester gestures as he and others clash with Border Guard Bangladesh and police outside the state-owned Bangladesh Television station in Dhaka, July 19, 2024. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters) ...

Malaysia’s Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (left) welcomes Brian Nelson, U.S. Department of the Treasury’s under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, before their official ...

Indonesian embassy officials at Port Moresby’s international airport when BenarNews’ journalist was initially barred from access, pictured on Aug. 21, 2024. (Harlyne Joku/BenarNews) Papua New Guinea’s ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Papua New Guinea’s Defense Minister Win Bakri Daki (right) show documents after signing a security agreement, as Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James ...

Front pages of the Post Courier newspaper from Jan. 2 and Jan. 8, 2025. (Supplied) Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation ...

An aerial view of Ouballang terrace, the largest of a series of ancient man-made earthworks spread across Aimeliik state in Palau on Nov. 29, 2024. (Rivers Reklai/BenarNews) Palauan tourism official ...

A man holds a Guam flag during a peace rally in Hagatna, Guam, pictured on Aug. 14, 2017. (Tassanee Vejpongsa/AP Photo) Debate on Guam’s future as a U.S. territory has intensified with its legislature ...

Sharon Bagwan Rolls of Pacific Women Mediators Network, Sheila Babauta of Commonwealth 670, Louise Wall of ILGA Oceania and Olivia Baro of the Pacific Conference of Churches prepare for the opening of ...

American and Filipino troops on Monday thwarted an attack by an imagined enemy force from waters in the northern Philippines across from Taiwan, as the two military allies staged live-fire drills ...

A man participates in a protest outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population, in The ...

Motorcyclists ride past debris and a fire in Meulaboh, Aceh province, Indonesia, in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Jan. 9, 2005. (Philippe Desmazes/AFP) Faced with the daunting task of ...