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Tanks on the streets, television stations going off air and generals claiming to have seized power were events that had been consigned to history in Thailand. Or so most of the…
Four villages and 19 factories have been submerged in a 240ha sea of mud in East Java that is growing up to 50 000 cubic metres a day in a major environmental disaster triggered…
Six teenage rugby players rush forward to protect their teammate, who is charging into the opposition with the ball tucked under his right arm. Within seconds, they are all on…
Seven Acehnese young men living in a rough, homemade wooden shack on stilts in the village of Lampuuk, 30km from the northern tip of Sumatra, are learning self-sufficiency the…
The conditions in Nurma Sulaiman’s tiny room in one of Nusa’s six barracks have just become a little more cramped. But neither she nor her husband and four children are…
Indonesian security forces and local militia leaders responsible for crimes against humanity in East Timor in 1999 should face an international tribunal if Jakarta does not…
The aviation industry will have to cut costs and reform business structures to defray billions of dollars in losses from soaring fuel prices, the world’s air transport bosses…
Think Thailand and what comes to mind? Paid-for sex? Plentiful drugs? But Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra would rather the mention of his country evoked images of…
The recently planted rows of pineapple plants in the one and a half hectare field on one side of the Malayon family home look neat and well-tended, but are otherwise not really…
Thousands of endangered species should be saved from extinction thanks to an ambitious plan to expand the world’s protected areas and improve their management approved last week…
A Middle East-based British businessman has emerged as a key suspect in a secret network supplying Libya, Iran and North Korea with equipment to build nuclear bombs. Speaking for…
Singapore has enacted draconian legislation allowing the government to give unspecified authorities power to take unlimited pre-emptive action against suspected cyber-terrorists…
United States President George W Bush this week sought, on a flying visit to Indonesia, to mend fences with the Islamic world but faced harsh criticism of his Iraq and Middle…
Ten South-East Asia nations last week signed a landmark accord to turn their vastly disparate states into an integrated, tariff-free trading and economic community by 2020. A…
The Myanmar junta has released 91 members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party, in an apparent bid to deflect international pressure over her continued detention.
Japan and the United Kingdom this week intensified the global diplomatic pressure on Myanmar to free the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the military junta…
Indonesian forces were this week accused of massacring civilians during a raid against separatist guerrillas in Aceh province on Monday.
Thailand’s populist prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has admitted for the first time that mistakes have been made in his month-long ”eye-for-an-eye” war on drugs that has…
With a peppercorn goatee, oversized glasses and clad in white ankle-length robes and Islamic cap, Abu Bakar Ba’aysir looks decidedly unthreatening. But when he gets on to the…
Talks between the military junta and the opposition could signal change for Myanmar.
