Getty Images The traditional bangka is an iconic part of life in the Philippines, evolving from its early role as a warship (Credit: Getty Images) A new design of ship in the Philippines is hoping ...

In 1942, a group of Australian nurses were murdered by Japanese soldiers in what came to be known as the Bangka Island massacre. Now, a historian has collated evidence indicating they were ...

TOBOALI, Indonesia, June 8 (Reuters) - From the shores of Indonesia's Bangka island, miners like Hendra head out by boat every day to scores of crudely built wooden pontoons dotted off the coast ...

The Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung produce over 90 percent of the country's tin. President Joko Widodo has vowed to end illegal mining operations that put the lives of men and children ...

Image by Nopri Ismi for Mongabay. Mine-free for centuries, dating back to colonial times, Tuing faces the South China Sea on the northeastern coast of Bangka. The hamlet covers an area of about ...

It's 8am and in Rebo, a fishing village on the eastern coast of the Indonesian island of Bangka, dozens of ragtag, casually dressed young men are gathering around the small harbour, as they do ...

A small-scale miner pans for tin in the Bangka-Belitung Islands. Image by Nopri Ismi/Mongabay Indonesia. Mongabay Indonesia spent four months in mid-2020 surveying seven Malay tribes who live in ...