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    Australia claims credit for foiling Indonesia terror plot

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    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

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    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 

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    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

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    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

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    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’

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    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

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    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

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    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 

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    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

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      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...
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