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Malaysia’s Judiciary Boosts Reputation On Najib Verdict

Amid the relative detritus of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s struggling government, one bright thing stands out, and that’s the performance of the country’s judiciary, which seems to have found its bearings after the years of political destruction by former premier Mahathir Mohamed and others
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Sri Lanka Urged To Renegotiate With IMF

Church leaders have joined hands with rights advocates to urge the Sri Lankan government to renegotiate its agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), arguing that strict spending conditions have weakened the state’s response to the recent flood disaster
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USAF Fighter Jets’ New Strategy On Isolated Island

For the first time, the US Air Force has deployed fighter jets to the secretive, remote island military base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, a powerful signal to China about the survivability of US combat airpower in the Asia-Pacific
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‘Patriot Bonds,’ An Indonesian Shakedown?

One might think that Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto would have learned lessons from the careers of his father, Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, one of the architects of Suharto’s mostly successful orthodox economic agenda, and his grandfather, Margono Djojohadikusumo, the founder of Bank Negara Indonesia, the country’s first central bank
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Has America Left And Gone For Good?

At one level, US President Donald Trump’s September 23 speech to the United Nations General Assembly was a rambling, at times barely coherent mix of rants and ramble, full of self-congratulation, abuse of allies, and plenty of plain, simple lies about much of the rest of the world
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Thai Politics Once Again In Turmoil

Thailand’s political merry-go-round is expected to start to spin again later this week when the 500-member parliament convenes, with contending political parties jockeying to form a coalition to replace Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, ousted by the Constitutional Court last week after two months of suspension by the court
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As India Remains In Coal’s Grip, China May Escape

The government in New Delhi can’t get out of its own way. On the one hand, it has made strides to ramp up renewable energy investment and development to help rein in its greenhouse gas emissions
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Russia's Diplomatic Recognition Takes Kabul Nowhere

As millions of Afghans struggle with chronic food insecurity and millions more refugees get pushed out of Pakistan and Iran into overcrowded, under-resourced camps around Kabul, the Taliban government has scored a symbolic diplomatic win
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Growing Rivalry Between Indonesia's Police And Military

For a decade under former President Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s police force enjoyed unprecedented privileges and power, with numerous high-ranking police officers appointed to key posts across ministries, state-owned enterprises, and regulatory bodies
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Beijing Seeks To Reshape South Asian Security

Among the many outcomes of the short but intense India-Pakistan war is China’s proactive efforts to use it to consolidate a regional bloc in South Asia involving Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China itself in anticipation of New Delhi’s moves to get closer to the US
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Indonesia's Slide Toward Militarism

Last week, the normally staid Jakarta Post, Indonesia’s leading English-language daily, published a blistering editorial saying that 27 years after the strongman Suharto fell from power
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UK Trade Deal With US Turns Its Former Colony Into Its Master

The conclusion of a free trade agreement between Great Britain and the US is extremely disadvantageous for the United Kingdom. One of the conditions for signing the agreement, according to Washington, is opening the UK market to US agricultural products
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India And Pakistan In Crisis With Neither Wanting War

Last night’s bombing by India of its “Operation Sindoor” targets in Pakistan was inevitable following the terror attack on April 22 that killed 26 holiday makers in a Kashmir meadow at Pahalgam
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