JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo acknowledged on Wednesday (Jan 11) a series of incidents amounting to “gross human rights violations” had taken place in his country’s past, including the bloodshed and arrests that took place in 1965 and 1966. In one of the darkest periods…

State-run paper Global Times defended Beijing’s retaliation as a “direct and reasonable response to protect its own legitimate interests, particularly after some countries are continuing hyping up China’s epidemic situation by putting travel restrictions for political manipulation”. South Korean foreign minister Park Jin has said…

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Chief Minister Hajiji Noor unveiled a new Cabinet on Wednesday (Jan 11), with former deputy chief minister Bung Moktar Radin dropped from the line-up. Last week, Mr Bung Moktar, who is also Sabah’s United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) chief, pulled the party’s…

JAKARTA: Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for her safety because of her gender identity. She saw some of her worst fears come true last month, when the world’s largest Muslim-majority country,…

VIENNA: A Vienna court found Austria’s ex-vice chancellor and former far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache not guilty on Tuesday (Jan 10) in a retrial of a corruption case relating to party donations by the owner of a private clinic. Strache, who resigned from government in 2019…

RECLAIMING THE MALAY VOTE In his speech at the forum, Mr Khairy also touched on how UMNO could be outflanked by the opposition PN, citing preliminary analyses of the GE15 results and a shift in the Malay vote. He said 54 per cent of the…