Asean needs longer-term approach to Myanmar: The Statesman
While Indonesia created a new precedent of meeting with various stakeholders across Myanmar, the Asean chair’s one-year tenure remains too short for significant breakthroughs.
Conflict/War
Cairo-Riyadh talks boost hope on Gaza truce
Hamas had said on April 27 they had received Israel's response to their own position on the Gaza cease-fire — submitted to the mediators Egypt and Qatar on April 13 —and were…
Gaza war tests Indonesia’s free and active foreign policy
Even with the absence of a mediating role, Indonesia should be seen championing an independent Palestinian state and full membership of the United Nations.
World has failed Gaza: Saudi at Global Economic Summit
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Palestinian leaders, and high-ranking officials from other countries trying to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas are attending the…
Israel intensifies airstrikes on Gaza’s Rafah before ground operation
In the seventh month of a devastating air and ground war, Israeli forces also resumed bombarding northern and central areas of the enclave, as well as east of Khan Younis in the…
In Philippines’ Cotabato province, over 300 families flee homes as rebel leaders clash
Local officials have said that the displaced families left their homes after a gunfight erupted between members of two MILF base commands around 4 p.m. on Wednesday in the village…
Decolonising academia beyond the metaphor
Several students at Columbia University took to their campus last week and set up tents on the lawn, demanding that their institution immediately divest from corporations,…
Gaza hospital bodies indicate ‘possible war crimes’
Among the dead were older people and women, and some were found with their hands tied and stripped of their clothes.
Third tranche of Singapore Red Cross aid worth $815,000 for Gaza
With the help of the SRC, an emergency humanitarian kitchen set up in Egypt’s North Sinai, near the border with Gaza, will aim to provide hot meals for at least 7,000 displaced…
Thailand proposes Asean meeting on Myanmar conflict
Thailand circulated a proposal for Malaysia, Laos, and Indonesia, to meet to address the long-running conflict said Thai Ambassador Nikorndej Balankura, adding that the meeting…