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EditorsPick
How Asian Chiefs Dealt with Trump in Tariff Wars
By Ivan LimFormer AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: President Donald Trump unleased his Liberation Day tariff offensive on April 2 with a vengeance – threatening to slap huge duties on nations enjoying trade surpluses unless they negotiate to redress and reverse the gaping trade imbalance with him. The Make…
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South East Asia
Indonesia: Flare Gas Monetization
By Eddy Suprapto JAKARTA: Indonesia, with the third largest population in the world, is not a particularly rich country in terms of oil and gas resources. Its reserves are only 3.3 gibberish barrels of oil, equivalent to 0.2 percent of the world’s total. Compare this to Venezuela, which has 300.9…
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Anwar or Trump: Who Stopped the War Between Thailand And Cambodia?
Thailand and Cambodia signed a ceasefire agreement in Malaysia, this year’s ASEAN chair, on July 28, 2025.Malaysian Prime Minister and ASEAN Chair Anwar Ibrahim (center) shakes hands with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet (left) and Thai Acting Prime Minister Putham Vejjachai (right)<Photo = Xinhua News/Yonhap News> By Ivan Lim,Former Senior…
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Indonesia: Strategic Petroleum Reserves Emergency
By Eddy SupraptoIndonesia JAKARTA: The Indonesian Strategic Petroleum Reserves emergency bell has sounded. Indonesia currently only has operational reserves sufficient for national consumption. The development of Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) infrastructure cannot be delayed due to the emergency phase.One of the crucial functions of strategic oil reserves is maintaining national…
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Redefining the Two-Nation Theory: From Hindu-Muslim Divide to Rich-Poor Divide in Pakistan
A social media post cursing the rulers for imposing heavy electricity bill on poor and providing free electricity to the elite By Nasir AijazThe AsiaN Representative KARACHI, SINDH: When the All-India Muslim League launched its campaign to create a separate homeland for Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, the justification was built…
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Pakistan’s Elite Reward Themselves While the Masses Suffer
Pakistan’s Parliament By Nasir AijazThe AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: In a country riddled with economic instability, rampant inflation, and growing public frustration, the federal government’s recent decision to raise the salaries of parliamentarians and top officials by up to 600 percent has drawn widespread outrage. While the announcement was buried under…
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South East Asia
Singapore’s 2025 Election: Stability at the Ballot, Strains Beneath
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s, from People’s Action Party (PAP), second from right, thanks his supporters and voters at an assembly area for People’s Action Party supporters, on the day of the general election in Singapore, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo : AP/Yonhap) Singapore General Election (GE) on May 3 that…
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Cambodia’s Ministry of Information urges nationwide effort to combat fake news
By Chhay Sophal PHNOM PENH: The Cambodian government, through the Ministry of Information, this week called on the public to pay close attention to the fight against fake news, as the Ministry’s Anti-Fake News Committee detected nearly 900 cases of misinformation during the first quarter of 2025. According to Tep…
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Indonesia Press Council appoints AJA columnist Abdul Manan as ‘Chairman of Law and Legislation’
Indonesian Press Council executives pose for a photo during the inauguration ceremony of the new members: From left: Chairman of the Commission for Information and Communication, Maha Eka Swasta; chairman of the Commission for Digital and Sustainability, Dahlan Dahi; chairman of the Commission for Inter-Institutional Partnership Relations, Rosarita Niken Widiastuti;…
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The impact of media decline
Photo via The Wellesley News By Eddy Suprapto JAKARTA: The economic crisis has caused a landslide impact on the industry in Indonesia. Until May 2025, the layoffs reached 24,867 people. In the media industry, the layoffs of journalists from online, print, and television media in the last five years of…
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