Vatican concordat changes funding for Timor-Leste parishes- La Croix International

Vatican concordat changes funding for Timor-Leste parishes- La Croix International: Vatican concordat changes funding for Timor-Leste parishes. Tensions between church and government over how US$15 million allocation will be split

Vatican concordat changes funding for Timor-Leste parishes- La Croix International

Vatican concordat changes funding for Timor-Leste parishes- La Croix International: Vatican concordat changes funding for Timor-Leste parishes. Tensions between church and government over how US$15 million allocation will be split

East Timor buys ConocoPhillips' Greater Sunrise share for $484m | afr.com

East Timor buys ConocoPhillips' Greater Sunrise share for $484m | afr.com: East Timor's former president and prime minister Xanana Gusmao has taken the first step in a planned $US5 billion ($6.9 billion) gamble to create an onshore gas-processing industry.

AMBASSADOR LORO MEETS WITH THE PR - Presidência da República de Timor-Leste

AMBASSADOR LORO MEETS WITH THE PR - Presidência da República de Timor-Leste: Nicolau Lobato Presidential Palace, Monday, 24 September – The ambassador of Timor-Leste to Cuba, Loro Horta, today met with the President of the Republic Francisco Guterres Lú Olo to talk about the Timorese students in Cuba and the political situation in that country. On the occasion, ambassador Horta informed the Head of State that there ...

Drug Trafficking in Asia’s Golden Triangle

Drug Trafficking in Asia’s Golden Triangle: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reports an increasing flow of opium and illicit drugs throughout the Southeast Asian region.

Monk Charged With Defamation Surrenders to Police in Myanmar

Monk Charged With Defamation Surrenders to Police in Myanmar: U Thawbita had criticized Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and the country's powerful military in postings on Facebook.

Audiopelago #1 - New Mandala

Audiopelago #1 - New Mandala: The first instalment in New Mandala's new Indonesia podcast.

Grab, Uber and the fare-rising scandal in Singapore

Grab, Uber and the fare-rising scandal in Singapore: RIDE-HAILING companies Grab and Uber struck a deal (merger) earlier this year, with Uber selling its Southeast Asia (SEA) business to rival Grab in March in exchange for a 27.5 percent stake in the Singapore-based firm.

Malaysia wants Burma's commanders probed for 'atrocities'

Malaysia wants Burma's commanders probed for 'atrocities': Malaysia has called for the establishment of an international judicial mechanism that would try those responsible for atrocities against Burma's Rohingya minority

Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh becomes first female president of Vietnam | South China Morning Post

Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh becomes first female president of Vietnam | South China Morning Post: Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh will be the acting president until the National Assembly elects a new leader

Mongolian herders moved to the capital city but now intense pollution is forcing to reconsider | South China Morning Post

Mongolian herders moved to the capital city but now intense pollution is forcing to reconsider | South China Morning Post: Officials at the city, provincial and national level are now working on a programme to encourage citizens to migrate from Ulan Bator to the provinces

EU’s bold move to rival China’s belt and road in Asia | South China Morning Post

EU’s bold move to rival China’s belt and road in Asia | South China Morning Post: EU member countries are expected to sign off on the new ‘Asia connectivity strategy’ in time for a major summit of European and Asian leaders next month

Thailand’s junta boss appoints new boss to run ‘Sin City’ Pattaya | South China Morning Post

Thailand’s junta boss appoints new boss to run ‘Sin City’ Pattaya | South China Morning Post: Prayuth Chan-ocha, who leads the ruling junta, booted out the current mayor of the freewheeling resort and installed Sonthaya Khunpluem to the influential post

Singapore immigration officer charged in sex bribery case involving Chinese women | South China Morning Post

Singapore immigration officer charged in sex bribery case involving Chinese women | South China Morning Post: Official is accused of receiving sexual favours in return for visa extensions and warning the female visitors about impending raids

Is sodomy accuser in Malaysia by-election part of a ‘character assassination’ plot against Anwar Ibrahim? | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post

Is sodomy accuser in Malaysia by-election part of a ‘character assassination’ plot against Anwar Ibrahim? | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post: The prime minister-in-waiting has kicked off his campaign for a vote that could relaunch his political career, but could the appearance of Saiful Bukhari Azlan be an attempt to thwart it

The winners and losers in Duterte’s China play | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post

The winners and losers in Duterte’s China play | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post: Real-estate companies in the Philippines are riding a wave of Chinese investment driven by betting operations, squeezing local buyers from the market

Meet the Chinese businessmen making waves in Australia | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post

Meet the Chinese businessmen making waves in Australia | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post: From jaw-dropping property deals to political intrigue, here are three influential – and sometimes controversial – Chinese figures down under

Japan and China are being pushed into each other’s arms by Donald Trump’s antics | South China Morning Post

Japan and China are being pushed into each other’s arms by Donald Trump’s antics | South China Morning Post: Improved Japan-China relations are in prospect, now that Shinzo Abe has been re-elected leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party for three more years....

Photos show people emptying damaged shopping centre after quake and tsunami | South China Morning Post

Photos show people emptying damaged shopping centre after quake and tsunami | South China Morning Post: People did not appear to be concerned about their safety, despite building’s questionable stability

How to win an election in Indonesia | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post

How to win an election in Indonesia | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post: Dozens of candidates convicted of graft are to run for office – and the country’s attitude towards kickbacks, which ranges from lax to supportive, means they have every chance of winning

Crumpled hotel in Palu becomes focus of rescue effort after Indonesia earthquake and tsunami | South China Morning Post

Crumpled hotel in Palu becomes focus of rescue effort after Indonesia earthquake and tsunami | South China Morning Post: The cries from beneath the hotel, which appeared to have toppled over with its walls splintered like pickup sticks, had gone silent by Sunday afternoon

Palu families search the rubble for loved ones killed in earthquake and tsunami | South China Morning Post

Palu families search the rubble for loved ones killed in earthquake and tsunami | South China Morning Post: The official death toll stands at over 800, but everyone knows that figure will only continue to rise

Typhoon Trami nears Tokyo after battering western Japan | South China Morning Post

Typhoon Trami nears Tokyo after battering western Japan | South China Morning Post: Airlines cancel more than 1,200 flights and most local trains and bullet trains in central and western areas suspend operations as Typhoon Trami makes landfall southwest of Tokyo

Promised a ‘paradise’ in North Korea, Japanese returnees are suing over the lies | South China Morning Post

Promised a ‘paradise’ in North Korea, Japanese returnees are suing over the lies | South China Morning Post: A socialist utopia awaits, they were told in the early 1960s, and your every need – work, home, clothes, health care – will be guaranteed by the state

How Facebook Could Spend Its Cash Hoard

How Facebook Could Spend Its Cash Hoard: The social networking giant is fast accumulating tens of billions of dollars. Here's its best option for spending its ample profits.

Indonesians turn to Facebook in desperate hunt for loved ones - Science & Tech - The Jakarta Post

Indonesians turn to Facebook in desperate hunt for loved ones - Science & Tech - The Jakarta Post: With the scale of the disaster still unclear, telecommunications patchy and some areas still out of reach, families are posting photos, descriptions of lost family members and contact numbers in the hope of learning more.

Until data is misused, Facebook’s breach will be forgotten | TechCrunch

Until data is misused, Facebook’s breach will be forgotten | TechCrunch: We cared about Cambridge Analytica because it could have helped elect Trump. We ignored LocationSmart because even the though the company was selling and exposing the real-time GPS coordinates of our phones, it was never clear exactly if or how that data was misused. This idea, that privacy issues …

Aerial footage shows tsunami destruction in Sulawesi – in pictures | World news | The Guardian

Aerial footage shows tsunami destruction in Sulawesi – in pictures | World news | The Guardian: Indonesian are reeling from a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck the island of Sulawesi, sweeping away buildings and killing hundreds in the regional capital Palu

Haunted by Mongolia, land of earth and sky, Buddhists and shamans, stillness and modernity | Post Magazine | South China Morning Post

Haunted by Mongolia, land of earth and sky, Buddhists and shamans, stillness and modernity | Post Magazine | South China Morning Post: Pico Iyer is blown away by the wind and the wilds of Mongolia – and by the photography of Frenchman Frédéric Lagrange that gets to the heart of a nation in many ways unchanged since Genghis Khan

Is the Republican Party Still Conservative? - The Atlantic

Is the Republican Party Still Conservative? - The Atlantic: The conservative virtues remain real virtues, the conservative insights real insights, and the conservative temperament an indispensable internal gyro keeping a country stable and sane.