Myanmar's military has rescinded media licenses and detained dozens of journalists since its Feb. 1 coup.

Two New Zealand navy vessels will arrive in Tonga on Friday carrying critical water supplies for the Pacific island nation reeling from a volcanic eruption and tsunami and largely cut off from the outside world.

Australia records its highest number of fatalities from COVID-19 amid the rise in cases of the Omicron variant across the country.

Indonesia's parliament has approved a bill to relocate the nation's capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan on Borneo.

Japan’s Osaka prefecture is set to report a record-high of 6,000 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as the union government moves to impose tougher restrictions amid a rapid surge in the Omicron strain.

Hundreds of Buddhist monks fled two major towns in Myanmar among thousands recently displaced by intense fighting between the military and rebel groups opposed to last year's coup.

Hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens were advised to evacuate on Sunday as waves of more than a meter hit coastal areas after the eruption of an underwater volcano off Tonga triggered tsunami warnings.