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A prominent Vietnamese blogger has been jailed for 10 years after being found guilty of distorting official policies and criticising the Communist leadership on...
Widodo scrambles for Chinese cash
The high-profile Belt and Road summit in Beijing in May saw Indonesian President Joko Widodo trying to persuade his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to...
Jakarta races to count islands
Indonesia's islands have never been successfully counted, although a 1996 law estimated there were 17,508, but now Jakarta is hoping to get an exact...
S’pore oil-rig slump continues
Orders at Singaporean shipyards fell by more than half last year as the offshore industry was hammered by falling oil prices. Companies in the sector...
Cambodia ‘probes’ illegal timber trade
Cambodia says it is investigating claims of large-scale timber smuggling to Vietnam. Phnom Penh's environment minister, Say Sam Al, told the Cambodia Daily that investigations...
Six journalists deported from Papua
Six Japanese journalists trying to make a documentary have been deported by the Indonesian authorities from the province of Papua. The team was working for...
Widodo mulls capital move
Plans are under discussion to relocate the capital of Indonesia, as a drastic solution to reports that the sprawling megacity of Jakarta, which is...
Freeport cuts output forecast
Freeport-McMoran, the world’s largest publicly traded copper producer, has cut its output forecasts following a stand-off when Indonesia stopped exports from its Grasberg mine...
Jakarta’s religious card
The future of one of the world's largest cities, Jakarta, lies in the balance. As ethnicity and religion have been increasingly exploited, the colossal...
Car tax distorts cost of S’pore living
Singapore’s ecological balance is dependent on its relative paucity of cars. Singapore is the most expensive city on earth, according the Economist's Intelligence Unit, which...
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