Jokowi’s final campaign rally in Indonesian polls turns into huge free concert to unify voters
JAKARTA, Apr 13, 2019, The Straits Times. Incumbent President Joko Widodo’s final campaign rally on…
[Analytics] Labor tipped to win tight Australian election
Polls suggest the Liberal-National coalition under PM Scott Morrison will have a tough battle to…
China tells WTO that Australia’s ban on 5G technology is ‘obviously discriminative’
BEIJING, Apr 13, 2019, SCMP. Australia’s restriction on Chinese 5G telecoms technology was “obviously discriminative”…
Palawan in Philippines divides into three new provinces
MANILA, Apr 13, 2019, PhilStar. President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law dividing the islands of…
[Analytics] Making sense of sub-regionalism and regionalism in Southeast Asia
How to make sense of the varied relationships between sub-regional projects and the larger Southeast…
N. Korea’s Kim sets year-end deadline for U.S. to shift stance
PYONGYANG, Apr 13, 2019, Kyodo. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged the United…
G-20 agrees to take “timely” action to mitigate risks: Japan
WASHINGTON D.C., Apr 13, 2019, Kyodo. Finance chiefs of the Group of 20 major economies…
WikiLeaks founder Assange put into ‘Britain’s Guantanamo’
LONDON, Apr 13, 2019, TASS. The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been put into…
[Analytics] The hit-and-run accident that captivated Cambodia
Distrust of law enforcement and the justice system forced Hun Sen to act over the…
Polling opens in Malaysian Rantau by-election
SEREMBAN, Apr 13, 2019, Bernama. Polling opened at 8am today in the Rantau state by-election….
The dynamics of social media and the Indian Elections 2019
Everything about the Indian elections is grand: about 900 million electors cast their vote over…
[Analytics] Winds of change blowing towards Prabowo in key Indonesian election battleground
Soaring above the cashew plantations and corn fields, 80m-tall steel towers are an alien sight…