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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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Could The US-China Trade War Push Beijing To Seize Taiwan?

Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of Global Times, recently suggested in a blog post that Beijing should intensify pressure on Taiwan’s government, including tightening the military noose around “Taiwan independence forces”
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Indonesian Activists Voice Press Freedom Fears

Activists have called for press freedom to be protected in Indonesia and demanded an investigation after a magazine critical of the government was sent a pig's head and decapitated rats
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Thailand Eyes A Potential Gaming Bonanza

Probably in the first quarter of 2026, if not earlier, Thailand’s parliament is expected to pass legislation designed to produce a gaming bonanza to draw punters away from Singapore
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Duterte Arrest A New Phase In Duterte-Marcos Rivalry

At long last, the International Criminal Court has got the former Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte into custody to stand trial for the crimes against humanity he is alleged to have committed with the war on drugs he unleashed as head of state
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Major Asian Investment Firms Caught By Fraud

Two of Asia’s biggest investment firms have found themselves swindled by eFishery, an Indonesian “unicorn” supposedly providing technology and data to improve the operations of fish and shrimp farmers
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Migrant Madness Drives Political Upheaval

For two weeks over the summer, Europe was fixated on the story of a luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the island of Sicily with the loss of a billionaire technopreneur, a senior international banking executive, and several rich lawyers
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Pressing Issues Await Pope Francis In Indonesia

A host of pressing issues, including the rise of religious intolerance, climate change, human trafficking, violence in Christian-majority Papua, disputes over development projects, and lay-clergy conflict
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Myanmar’s Displaced Struggle To Find Temporary Homes

HONG KONG, SAR: The intense fighting between the military and rebel forces prompted Daw Nyo Nyo, 50, to flee his home in Kyauktu town in central Myanmar's Magway region with his family earlier this year.
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NATO’s Future In Asia

HONG KONG, SAR: NATO’s 75th-anniversary summit in Washington, celebrated in early July, was unusual not only because of the extraordinary longevity of the alliance but also because of the attention paid to ‘threats’ posed by powers i.e., China, from far outside of its geographical focus in Europe
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