The abduction of a young Chinese actor, who was trafficked from Thailand to Myanmar, prompted an unusually powerful public-pressure campaign and official actions.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince says the kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years.

Thailand made history by legalizing same-sex marriage, becoming the first Southeast Asian nation and the third in Asia, following Taiwan and Nepal, to do so.

Australia’s First Nations population, the Aboriginal Australians, say that they have always been in Australia. The evidence suggests that they are right. Indigenous Australians arrived on the ...