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'Close enough to see their faces': Chased down by China in South China Sea

We could see the larger Chinese ship moving closer, both our ships going at high speed. The Chinese crew were close enough for us to see their faces....

01.05.2024 80

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Inside Thailand's Casablanca: A town of exiles, revolutionaries and fear

The bamboo and leaf-thatch shelter in the middle of a sugarcane field hardly looks like a safehouse. But that is where 23-year-old Sanjay - his...

17.04.2024 90

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An 'impossible' country tests its hard-won democracy

Budiman Sujatmiko has lost none of the passion that he used to show as one of the boldest student opponents of Suharto, the soft-spoken but ruthless...

10.02.2024 100

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Myanmar's army is losing - and facing fire from a militant monk

Last Tuesday, a noisy crowd of several hundred people stood in the small main square of Pyin Oo Lwin, a popular Myanmar hill town, to hear a...

24.01.2024 100

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The man held with the hostages Israel mistakenly killed

"Am I lucky or unlucky?" Wichian Temthong pondered the question. "I guess I'm lucky, because I'm still here, still alive." The 37-year-old farm...

20.12.2023 100

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Xi in Vietnam to mend a love-hate relationship

When Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Phu Trong on Tuesday, on a state visit to Vietnam, expect a fountain of...

12.12.2023 60

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