Big Brother Comes to Southeast Asia 
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Asia Sentinel at 20: Two Decades of Independent Journalism 11 killed in plane crash in northeastern France
Eleven people were killed in a plane crash in the town of Tomblaine in northeastern France on Sunday, the local prefecture said.
The plane belonged to…
Samantha Johnson
China isn’t Europe’s real problem
Generals losing a war examine the enemy, battlefield and their own forces. Brussels prefers a different sequence, ordering new weapons first and worrying about the…
Saudi Aramco helicopter crash kills 14
A helicopter belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco crashed on Sunday in Ras Tanura on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast west of the Strait of Hormuz,…
China leads in GPS-style, reconnaissance and anti-satellite abilities, US report says
China has leapfrogged the United States in a few mighty important sectors of space technologies: GPS-style navigation, spy-in-the-sky reconnaissance and even the ability to knock…
‘I see hope’: how mindset shifts help Hong Kong cancer patients cope with diagnosis
In the fifth instalment of a six-part Health Matters wellness series on cancer in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Cheung looks at the hidden psychological burden patients…
Liberal Islam in Indonesia is sliding into irrelevance
It has been 25 years since Indonesia’s Liberal Islam Network (Jaringan Islam Liberal or JIL) was established in March 2001, just three years after Reformasi.
The…