Bill Birtles

Balinese authorities have finally had enough and sent hundreds of police to shut down a luxury villa complex known to locals as the "Russian village" after years of simmering tension and suspicion about building permit violations.

Prabowo Subianto has long dreamed of being Indonesia's president. Here's how he spent his first 100 days in the job. 

The US used to spend more on international development than any other nation, but with Donald Trump and Elon Musk freezing USAID funding, people on the other side of the world are already dealing with some of the most devastating effects. 

Students in several Indonesian cities have taken to the streets to protest after Prabowo's government slashed budgets for civil servants and introduced policies that they deemed "not pro-people".

Rick Olarenshaw's wife Ni Ketut Sri Astari Saranitha, 36, is on trial for allegedly operating a spa business in Bali that was offering sexual services.

Statues and hundreds of culturally significant artefacts have been returned to Indonesia by the Dutch, but with close to 30 museum theft cases in recent decades authorities move to ensure these don't end up in an illegal private collection.

In Myanmar, there are reports of screaming coming from piles of rubble as the window to find earthquake survivors is quickly diminishing. 

There's increasing hope among Catholics in the Philippines that one of their own, Cardinal Luis Tagle, who is considered a contender to succeed Pope Francis, and has a reputation for being a relatively open minded voice in the church might become Asia's first Pope.

Massive parades and events are being rehearsed as Vietnam prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which was also the beginning of one of Australia's largest migrations.

For Vietnam, one of the world's most export-reliant economies, the stakes of its negotiations with US President Donald Trump on the future of his tariffs plan could not be higher.