South East AsiaIndonesia moots jail term cut for 180 ex-Jemaah Islamiyah members National counter-terrorism agency chief Eddy Hartono announced the proposal yesterday in Surakarta.byBloombergDecember 22, 2024
South East AsiaThai court delivers death penalty, life sentences for German’s murderbyAFPDecember 21, 2024
South East AsiaMyanmar’s rebels say they have taken junta’s western regional commandbyReutersDecember 21, 2024
South East AsiaIndonesia’s president pledges to pardon ‘corrupters’ who return ill-gotten gainsbyReutersDecember 19, 2024
South East AsiaVietnam’s PM eyes expansion of defence co-operation In remarks to open Vietnam’s second international arms fair, Pham Minh Chinh says the expo is ‘a message of peace, co-operation and development’.byReutersDecember 19, 2024
South East AsiaVietnam’s sweeping administrative cuts stir investors’ anticipation, worriesbyReutersDecember 17, 2024
South East AsiaAustralia says remaining ‘Bali Nine’ members have returned Matthew Norman, Scott Rush, Martin Stephens, Si Yi Chen, and Michael Czugaj were among nine people arrested in 2005 trying to smuggle more than eight kg of heroin from Bali.byReutersDecember 15, 2024
South East AsiaUK joins trans-Pacific pact in biggest post-Brexit trade dealbyReutersDecember 15, 2024
South East AsiaChina says Philippines has ‘provoked trouble’ in South China Sea with US backingbyReuters
South East AsiaPapua New Guinea PM to fight ‘fire with fire’ in troubled highlandsbyAFPDecember 10, 2024
South East AsiaRights group implicates Indonesian police in 31 extrajudicial killingsbyAFPDecember 9, 2024
South East AsiaCambodian journalist investigating illegal logging shot dead Chhoeung Chheung worked for local news outlet Kampuchea Aphivath and was shot in the abdomen on Wednesday in a forest in Siem Reap province.byAFPDecember 7, 2024
South East AsiaIndonesia, Philippines agree on repatriation of Filipina on death rowbyAFPDecember 6, 2024
South East AsiaMyanmar ethnic armed group executes six men following public trialbyAFPDecember 6, 2024
South East AsiaJapan grants Philippines US$11mil in security aid to bolster defencesbyReutersDecember 5, 2024
South East AsiaUS to donate small boats to boost Vietnam’s maritime law enforcementbyReutersDecember 5, 2024
South East AsiaPhilippines files diplomatic protest against China over South China Sea incidentbyReutersDecember 5, 2024