ACEH: NEW FORMS OF FOREIGN DOMINATION DEVELOPING
March 5, 2007
by Max Lane
(For additional news reports to complement the interview below see: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/701/36428)
The left-wing Acehnese Peoples Party (PRA) will be holding its founding congress in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh at the end of February. Sydney University Southeast Asian Studies lecturer Max Lane spoke to Thamrin Ananda, chairperson of the Preparatory Committee of the PRA.
2007 A YEAR OF ALL OUT CAMPAIGNING, SAYS PAPERNAS LEADER
January 31, 2007
by Max Lane
NEW INITIATIVES FOR POLITICAL RESISTANCE IN INDONESIA
January 23, 2007
by Max Lane
(NOTE: a version of this article has also appeared in Green Left Weekly).
RADICAL PARTY TO ENTER INDONESIAN POLITICS
January 16, 2007
by Max Lane
BOY KILLED, 1 HURT AS SOLDIERS PANICKED IN SULU OPERATION
February 21, 2007
by Julie Alipala, Mindanao Bureau
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines -- The military in Sulu and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have confirmed that the deaths of a 14-year old boy and a soldier were not the result of a clash with the Abu Sayyaf contrary to an earlier claim by the Army.
PARENTS ASK KIDS TO STAY AWAY FROM US SOLDIERS
February 17, 2007
by Julie Alipala for the Inquirer
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines -- The parents of the victim in the Subic rape case and a youth allegedly shot by another soldier after supposedly being mistaken for a cow on Saturday called on other parents to keep their children away from American soldiers now in the country for the annual Balikatan military exercises.
THAI COUP: OLD ELITES AGAINST NEW
September 23, 2006
By Andre Vltchek
"Notorious Bangkok traffic jams indicate that the country is returning to normalcy", reported western mass-media outlets including BBC World Service just two days after the military coup overthrew democratically elected government of Thaksin Shinawatra, the populist billionaire prime minister.
ONCE AGAIN INDONESIA FAILED ITS QUAKE VICTIMS
June 25, 2006
By Andre Vltchek
LAOS: SECRET WAR STILL KILLING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
June 15, 2006
By Andre Vltchek
Plain of Jars, Laos. "It is terrible when the bomb kills the cow," says my guide and translator, Mr. Van Lorn, as we are leaving Phonsavan in Plain of Jars, driving east, towards Vietnam. "Cows like to chew on stones. Very often they dig out some old bombie and then it goes off in their mouth, tearing off the entire head of the animal."
SOUTHEAST ASIA: THOSE BELOVED MALLS
April 25, 2006
By Andre Vltchek
Paragon in the center of Bangkok is not just some ordinary mall - it is a gigantic marble, steel and glass shopping, dining and entertainment center, surrounded by fountains, connected with the rest of the city by a state of the art "Sky Train". It is shiny, glitzy and confident, reflecting the limitless materialistic dreams of the Thai middle class, while satisfying all the basic needs of the minuscule but outrageously wealthy elite.
