January

January 2, 2009

‘Ex-Employee’ Sought in Rare Singapore Theft

SINGAPORE ~ Police are looking for a former employee of the watch shop at which more than US$5 million worth – Read More...
January 2, 2009

Malaysian Warship Scares off Somali Pirates

KUALA LUMPUR ~ A Malaysian warship helped Indian seamen fight off heavily armed Somali pirates attempting to board an oil – Read More...
January 2, 2009

WHAT’S YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION?

To finish my studies soon and work in a United States embassy. Sean Calnks, 25; Mexican, college student I just – Read More...
January 2, 2009

Has Israel Revived Hamas?

By Daoud Kuttab JERUSALEM ~ In its efforts to stop amateur rockets from nagging the residents of some of its – Read More...
January 2, 2009

Take It From a Brit, America: It’ll Be OK

By Chris Ayres There has been much talk in the media about America’s threatened superpower status – a result of – Read More...
January 2, 2009

In Search of a Holiday

By Pico Iyer New Year’s Day is the hardest holiday to make sense of precisely because it’s the easiest one – Read More...
January 2, 2009

Former Spy Cleared of Activist’s Murder

JAKARTA ~ A court has cleared the former deputy head of the country’s spy agency of masterminding the 2004 poisoning – Read More...
January 2, 2009

Quake Strikes off Sumatra

JAKARTA ~ A 5.4-magnitude quake struck off Sumatra late on Wednesday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of – Read More...
January 2, 2009

Drug-Smuggling Ring Busted

JAKARTA ~ Police have cracked a smuggling ring that was importing drugs worth over US$1 million to Indonesia and China, – Read More...
January 2, 2009

FM Encourages Sending Aid Instead of Fighters to Gaza

JAKARTA ~ Sending aid to Palestinians in Gaza would be more useful than dispatching fighters as some Indonesian militant Muslim – Read More...