UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia
The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year — some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor. When...
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ASEAN’s five-point peace agreement on the crisis in Myanmar
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have urged Myanmar’s military to follow a five-point “consensus” it agreed to last year at a crisis meeting of the bloc’s leaders to address deadly unrest that...
Indonesia passes law to relocate capital to remote Borneo
Indonesia’s parliament has approved a bill to relocate the nation’s capital from Jakarta to a jungled area of Kalimantan on Borneo island, the planning minister said on Tuesday. The new state capital law, which...
Indonesia abandoning its Capital?
I have almost always lived in capital cities. I was born in New Delhi, resided in London, Prague (before Czechoslovakia split in 1993), Budapest, Rome, Bonn (long before the capital moved to Berlin in...
India’s vote against the Maldives in the UN ensuring its defeat
Key Points The Maldives was thrashed by Indonesia in the UN Security Council vote. India had given at least three assurances that it would vote for the Maldives for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations...
