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Domestic violence victims protection bill promoted
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/09/2025
» Civil society groups are stepping up efforts to advance a draft domestic violence victims protection bill while urging the new government to prioritise the issue.
Indonesian minister’s sudden exit sparks alarm for global funds
Published on 09/09/2025
» The sudden removal of Sri Mulyani Indrawati as Indonesia’s finance minister is bound to rattle global investors, who saw her as a voice of fiscal responsibility in an administration pushing for bigger spending.
Chinese firms pay price of jihadist strikes against Mali junta
AFP, Published on 05/09/2025
» ABIDJAN — Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta.
Bolsonaro awaits Brazil coup-plot verdict
AFP, Published on 02/09/2025
» BRASILIA - Brazil’s Supreme Court began deliberations on Tuesday in the trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro, the Donald Trump ally accused of plotting a coup to retain power after he lost the 2022 election.
Time to tread carefully
Published on 30/08/2025
» ABOUT POLITICS: The People's Party's reform agenda could be risky right now, thanks to the nationalism fed by the border dispute v Thaksin Shinawatra survived his lese majeste trial, but the hospital stay ruling will have greater political significance
Communication is a must for students
Oped, Published on 29/08/2025
» Take a look at any restaurant where a group may be at a table. Members may be communicating with each other by text even though they are physically next to each other. Some not even sharing. An increasing number of young couples are not staring into each other's eyes but rather at their phones! We live in a time where interaction is ever-present, but true connection is absent.
The promise and peril of Bangladesh's 'youthquake'
Oped, Published on 20/08/2025
» The past year has been marked by a series of revolutions and political shocks as young people across Asia and Africa have taken to the streets, demanding accountable governments, fairer societies, and economic opportunities -- a wave of resistance that Binaifer Nowrojee has aptly termed "youthquakes".
Thai-Cambodian feud is Asean's worst
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 15/08/2025
» The border dispute and consequent military conflict between Cambodia and Thailand in recent weeks have become Asean's worst crisis in its 58 years of existence. Ironically, it was an intra-regional war between Indonesia and Malaysia that gave rise to Asean in 1967, but now an intra-Asean military clash is undermining the Southeast Asian organisation's core reason for being and its main claim to credibility and prominence. Unless Asean, under Malaysia as its rotational chair this year, moves fast to contain the bilateral dispute and reinforce a delicate ceasefire agreement, Southeast Asia will be looked upon increasingly as a region and less as an organisation of member states.
Domestic violence charges dropped against boxing champ Davis
AFP, Published on 13/08/2025
» MIAMI — Domestic violence charges have been dropped against unbeaten world lightweight boxing champion Gervonta Davis over a June incident with his ex-girlfriend.
Manual for Muslims with LGBTQ+ kids
Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 12/08/2025
» A new parenting guidebook titled "Faith, Family, and Pride: A Parent’s Guideline", has been launched to help Muslim parents in the southern border provinces raise LGBTQ+ children with compassion while still adhering to their Islamic teachings.