Report: Drugs seizures and use in Malaysia are increasing The Star | BANGKOK: Malaysia is at the crossroads of becoming a major market for amphetaminetype stimulants (ATS), according to a new report. | Large amounts are trafficked into the country, in addition to large scale domestic manufacture, said the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Ce...
(photo: AP / Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
Duch: Symbol of Khmer Rouge horror BBC News | In early 1999, in a village in northwest Cambodia, an elderly man introduced himself to a journalist. | He was Hong Pen, he said, a former teacher from the capital, Phnom Penh. He spoke good English and was wearing the T-shirt of an American aid organisation. | But the journalist recognised his fa...
How Two Elections Changed America Middle East Online Two clandestine operations during hard-fought presidential elections of the past half century shaped the modern American political era, but they remain little known to the general public and mostly ignored by historians. One unfolded in the weeks bef...
Seymour Hersh-extended interview New Statesman A longer version of this week's NS interview | Is it always a journalist's duty to report the truth, even if it may damage innocents? | I'm a total First Amendment Jeffersonian. It's their job to keep it secret and my job to find it out and make it p...
China, ASEAN issue joint statement on legal assistance China Daily | HANOI: The sixth meeting of prosecutors- general from China and member countries of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) closed here on Wednesday with participants coming up with a joint statement demonstrating determination to co...
Obama's vow: Finish Afghan job Philadelphia Daily News | By Jonathan S. Landay, Steven Thomma, and John Walcott | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - In a preview of his speech next week announcing his strategy for Afghanistan, President Obama yesterday vowed that he would "finish the job" of sta...
AP / Herbert Knosowski
Berlin Wall comes down but myths still stand The Examiner | Recently, the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Angela Merkel and Mikhail Gorbachev walked through a former border crossing on November 9th, 2...
Cambodia rattles Thailand's chain Asia Times | By Craig Guthrie | HUA HIN, Thailand - Cambodia's long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen, with a thumping parliamentary majority and a war-traumatized electorate fearful of change, ...
Trade in rhino horn fuels massive poaching surge in South Africa The Guardian | An 'insatiable' demand for horn, with poaching at a 15-year high, is stretching South Africa's abilities to protect its white rhinos, above, and critically endangered black rhino...
Man, 70, guilty of dumping body BBC News | A 70-year-old Vietnamese man has been convicted of dumping a body in a ditch in the hope of keeping the cannabis factory he was running a secret. | Ba Doai Tran was found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by helping to dispose o...
My First Protest: Asian Americans and Activism, Part 1 Star Tribune | I wanted to try something new for this blog: I reached out to several local and national Asian American activists and asked them to write about their first protest. Protest could be broadly defined as an action to stand up for what you believ...
Rainsy stripped of immunity The Himalayan | PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's parliament stripped immunity from main opposition leader Sam Rainsy Monday, clearing the way for charges against him for uprooting markings at the border with neighbouring Vietnam. | "The National Assembly has lifted the parl...
Premier Seeks His Mandate in Malaysia Wall Street Journal By PATRICK BARTA | SINGAPORE -- The pace of social and economic reform in Malaysia is likely to slow over the coming months but the country remains committed to opening its heavily regulated economy to more competition in the long term, Prime Minister Najib Razak said Friday. | In a rare private interview, Mr. Najib said that steps he has taken sin...
