The first Indonesian president propelled to office not by dint of dynastic heritage or the number of gold stars on his epaulettes, former property/furniture businessman Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, vowed on the eve of his 2014 […]
The thundering of polo-playing pachyderms heralded the raising of almost half a million US dollars for elephant conservation efforts this month in the 14th annual King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in Thailand. The unusual spectacle […]
There were no funerals. No 21-gun salutes. No folded flags. No official explanation for why they never came home. They simply vanished. According to the US Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), more than 1,600 Americans […]
Slightly more than 30 years have now passed since Corazon Aquino, a steely housewife-turned-political-icon sporting yellow dress and matching spectacles, assumed the presidency of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were ousted […]
One of the world’s most wanted pirate fishing ships, the FV Viking, has been dramatically scuttled by the Indonesian Navy, bringing more than a decade of toothfish poaching in the Southern Ocean to what authorities […]
One of the world’s great rivers, the Mekong winds its way through the steaming jungles and historic heartlands of Southeast Asia, boasting an ecosystem whose natural wealth is rivalled only by the almighty Amazon. Perhaps […]
It started, almost 100 years ago, with a humble seed – and has since grown into a scandal of such proportion that it casts a pall over emerging markets across Asia. Insider trading by executives […]
The US and the Philippines are to discuss ways of strengthening bilateral military ties after the Supreme Court upheld the Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) in a January ruling. The long-awaited executive agreement allows the […]
The timing couldn’t have been more calculated: less than 24 hours into an Asean summit hosted by US President Barack Obama, primarily to mull over how best to reduce tensions in the South China Sea […]
Missing billions, bogus donations and more political intrigue than a Shakespearean tragedy: the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) saga, currently plunging Malaysia into ever-deeper crisis, is shaping up to be the international heist of the […]
Polo and pachyderms are perhaps not the most obvious of pairings, but elephant polo – which, according to its official history, ‘started out as a whimsical conversation between two sport lovers and evolved into the […]