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Three British nationals accused of smuggling more than two pounds of cocaine into Indonesia face the death penalty under the country’s strict drug laws.

Police officers recovered a pair of baby orangutans Wednesday from a car at a Bangkok gas station.

Jarred Dwayne Shaw, 34, from Dallas was arrested last week after police raided his apartment and seized 132 pieces of cannabis candies, they said.

Ronin looks by all accounts like an average African giant pouched rat. But the 5-year-old rodent just broke the world record for most land mines recovered by a single rodent.

As rescuers continue to search for survivors in Myanmar after the powerful earthquake, the Los Angeles Burmese community remains on edge, waiting to hear back from loved ones. Amber Frias reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on March 29, 2025.

Patranya Bhoolsuwan, who lives in the U.S., says she was speechless with the images of the damage because her parents live in a high-rise building in Thailand. Christian Cazares reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on March 28, 2025.

At least 140 people were killed in Myanmar and at least 10 people were confirmed to have been killed in neighboring Thailand.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled proposed defense secretary Pete Hegseth over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, asking him if he could name a single member.

The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that impacted a dozen countries, reaching as far as East Africa.

People across Southeast Asia commemorated the lives of those lost two decades ago in the massive Indian Ocean tsunami that killed close to 230,000.

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters rejected the old political guard that has been widely accused of pushing the nation toward economic ruin.

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday, ending 15 years in power as thousands of protesters defied a military curfew and stormed her official residence.