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Malaysia: Lawan Berita Palsu Dengan Fakta, Bukan Akta

Malaysia: Lawan Berita Palsu Dengan Fakta, Bukan Akta

Malaysia’s government has introduced a sweeping “anti-fake news” bill that critics say could stifle criticism of Prime Minister Najib Razak and his supremacist political party before a national ele ...

Patani Youth Activists Seeking Malaysia’s Help as ASEAN Chair

Patani Youth Activists Seeking Malaysia’s Help as ASEAN Chair

PerMAS lodged a formal appeal to the Malaysian embassy in Bangkok yesterday. The Federation of Patani Students and Youth (Persekutuan Mahasiswa Anak Muda dan Siswa Patani) is seeking for the government of Malaysia to ...

Arming Indonesia: U.S. to sell Apache helicopters

Arming Indonesia: U.S. to sell Apache helicopters

In a first-of-its-kind deal worth about $500 million, the United States has agreed to sell eight new Apache AH-64E attack helicopters and Longbow radars to Indonesia. “Providing Indonesia these world-class heli ...

ThaiSouth: Barisan Revolusi Nasional’s Demand Exposes Insincerity

ThaiSouth: Barisan Revolusi Nasional’s Demand Exposes Insincerity

Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) is at it again. The Pattani-Melayu elitist militant leadership made more demands on YouTube in relation to Ramadan, the holy month in the Muslim calendar. Chief BRN representative, Has ...

ThaiSouth: Ownership at its Height of Hypocrisy

ThaiSouth: Ownership at its Height of Hypocrisy

The Barisan Revolusi National (BRN) will continue the carnage in the ThaiSouth until their demands are met by the “Siam” (Thailand) government. BRN, has lost much of its influence in the three Thai provin ...

Human Rights Watch: End Silence on ‘Disappeared’ Lao Activist

Human Rights Watch: End Silence on ‘Disappeared’ Lao Activist

There is strong evidence that Sombath, a prominent 60-year-old social activist, was forcibly disappeared by Laotian authorities more than two months ago. The Lao government’s long silence about Sombath Somphon ...

Missing Lao Activist Sombath – More Questions than Answers

Missing Lao Activist Sombath – More Questions than Answers

On 15 December 2012, Sombath Somphone, a civil rights activist, disappeared in Vietiane, Lao. Sombath Somphone had a high profile at the Asian-Europe People’s Forum. His work, safeguarding the environment and ...

ASEAN: The Piss-Pot of Human Rights

ASEAN: The Piss-Pot of Human Rights

ASEAN, the consortium of South East Asian nations was formed in 1967, and we are now living at the start of 2012. What pressing issues do they emphasize every year? Simple. Economic power and how to sustain it. ...

Indonesia Draws US Criticism for Human Rights Abuses in West Papua

Indonesia Draws US Criticism for Human Rights Abuses in West Papua

In an unexpected and unprecedented public criticism of, emerging US ally, Indonesia, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama quietly took Indonesia to task for human rights abuses in their battered province of West Pap ...

Enforcing Democracy With Violence

Enforcing Democracy With Violence

The presence of the Lords of War in South East Asia is unnerving. They sell everything, from submarines, patrol boats, fifth generation jet fighters to missiles, assault rifles and bombs of every design. ...