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Year in Review
Asia focus, Published on 29/12/2014
» Asia rose to new heights in 2014 despite the many challenges that beset the region. Headline-making developments ranged from China dethroning the United States as the world's largest economy, subject to vigorous debate as that may be, to the tragic mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
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Under the black flag
Asia focus, Published on 17/07/2017
» In September 2012, the Philippine police discovered a black flag in the Abu Sayyaf camp of Khair Mundos. By May 2017, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) appeared to be gaining a foothold in the southern Philippines.
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High-seas anxiety
Asia focus, Published on 26/09/2016
» Sembara Oktafian was in the engine room of a tugboat chugging toward the Philippines when something didn't sound right.
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On guard against terror
Asia focus, Published on 03/02/2020
» When President Donald Trump ordered American troops to withdraw last October from northeastern Syria, critics said the decision would play into the hands of terrorists, with ramifications beyond the Middle East.
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The battle for Marawi
Asia focus, Published on 12/06/2017
» On a Tuesday afternoon just under three weeks ago, a flash mob of heavily armed militants took to the streets in the southern Philippine city of Marawi. Anxious and uncertain, residents peered out their windows, recording the men with smartphones as more emerged from homes where they had laid in waiting. What Marawi's citizens saw next would horrify the world.
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The Great Timber Rush
Asia focus, Published on 16/07/2012
» Treasure hunters have a romantic reputation. The popular perception is of Spanish doubloons, Ming Dynasty china or stolen gold bullion hidden beneath the sands of a tropical island or deep beneath the ocean.
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