A veteran reporter identified for overlaying rights abuses in Indonesia’s militarized and restive Papua area mentioned a bomb exploded outdoors his residence on Monday, with a journalists group calling it an act of intimidation that threatened press freedom. Nobody was injured within the blast close to his residence within the …
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The home in an exclusive Bangkok residential compound popular with diplomats was rented ostensibly by the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru for its consul-general to Thailand, his family and staff. But Onassis Dame, the Nauruan diplomat, and his family did not live there. Instead the residence, which investigators raided …
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The Japan Coast Guard on Friday concluded security drills to train its Malaysian counterpart on how to repel foreign intruders in the disputed South China Sea where Beijing has grown increasingly assertive against other claimant states. The four-day exercise marked the first time Malaysia was trained in using long-range acoustic …
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Beijing says it remains committed to joint oil exploration with Manila in the disputed South China Sea despite a Philippine Supreme Court decision that declared a previous such deal, also involving China, unconstitutional. The court this week voided a 2005 agreement with China and Vietnam because it involved wholly foreign-owned …
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ASEAN chair Indonesia will set up a special envoy’s office to deal with the post-coup crisis in Myanmar but not allow that country to hold the regional bloc hostage, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said Wednesday. As holder of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ chairmanship for 2023, Indonesia will work …
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Myanmar’s shadow authorities, analysts and human rights teams have lambasted the Thai authorities for holding a gathering on the post-coup disaster there that included the Burmese junta’s overseas minister. The assembly in Bangkok on Thursday but once more uncovered a pointy divide within the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), …
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