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Karim Raslan
Karim Raslan

The Philippine president’s much vaunted infrastructure programme is flailing, and recent moves against the media and the US are part of a worrying trend.

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There is still danger but most of those displaced are desperate to return. They cannot afford to wait in shelters and there’s little the authorities can do to prevent them.

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Donald Trump’s ignorance comes as no surprise but Xi Jinping risks forgetting the lessons of the late Deng Xiaoping, particularly in the South China Sea.

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The experience of Gawing, a Christian man who migrated from multiracial Sarawak to Johor state, holds lessons for how Malaysia can have a more progressive and dynamic future.

It means hotel housekeeping supervisor Ae Ae Phyo Aung, who makes up to US$400 a month or double what another worker in Yangon may earn, has now set her sights on buying property.

Behind the mind-blowing viewing numbers, the glitz and the glamour, are people like Tanya Purohit. When she’s not auditioning, she spends her time teaching students to write plays and analysing professional wrestling

The German-built ship is one of 79 vessels operated by national ferry company Pelni that serve a plethora of far-flung destinations in the sprawling archipelagic nation.

Drivers for Southeast Asia’s lucrative food delivery services are merely tiny cogs in a global contest of hugely capitalised giants. The fast money has obvious appeal but there is precious little security.

Demonstrations were prompted by proposed amendments to the law governing Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission and to the country’s criminal code.

The more than 25 million Indians who travel abroad every year are tech-savvy and have higher incomes than before. While their numbers aren’t as big as the Chinese, they offer huge potential for the hospitality industry.

Prem and King Bhumibol formed one of Southeast Asia’s powerful political partnerships, alongside Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Keng Swee in Singapore and Mahathir Mohamad and Daim Zainuddin in Malaysia.

A former bustling British port, Mawlamyine today is a far cry from its glory years in the 1800s, and young people are yearning to leave in search of jobs and money.

The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped Kashmir of its statehood and the disputed region is once again on the precipice of violence.