Australia claims credit for foiling Indonesia terror plot
The 2002 Bali bombing memorial. Source: Wikimedia
Australian security services claim to have helped neutralise an ISIS-inspired attack in Indonesia and the two governments have agreed to co-operate to...
Beijing tightens imperial grip
Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow in September 2014 blindfolded with a red scarf, symbolising Communist China's political repression. Source: Wikimedia
China's ability to control its southern neighbours' domestic...
Singapore tax targets main polluters
Singapore says it is imposing a carbon tax from next year to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions and give its firms a competitive advantage as...
Indonesia braced for forest fires
Deforestation in Riau province, Sumatra, to make way for an oil-palm plantation in 2007. Source: Wikimedia
The dry season across much of Indonesia brings the renewed threat of...
Jakarta activists denied Singapore access
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, second left, has eccentric taste in shirts. Source: Wikimedia
The Singaporean Embassy in Jakarta has rejected claims that two Indonesian activists were...
The generals and their ‘lady’
Fighting is ongoing in Myanmar’s northerly Kachin State after the military began attacks on the powerful Kachin Independence Army (KIA) last month.
The rebel...
Thais enter solar market
Thailand has plenty of sunshine. Source: Wikimedia
There are signs that the Thai economy is moving away from its dependency on fossil fuels but while...
MAS shuts Swiss bank
Another kind of storm blowing around the BSI buildings in Lugano. Source: Wikimedia
Singapore’s financial regulators are closing Swiss private bank BSI SA’s branch as criminal proceedings...
Vietnam angers China with drilling
Vietnam has begun drilling for oil in an area of the South China Sea claimed by China.
A drilling ship on contract to international firm...
3,000 Thai police raid temple
The vast Wat Dhammakaya. Source: Max Pixel
Thailand’s police have raided a vast temple complex on the outskirts of Bangkok where a divisive Buddhist sect...