Opinion

February 9, 2007

Editorial – Disaster Mismanagement

Every year the capital Jakarta is inundated with floods, leaving tens of millions of people in one of the world’s – Read More...
February 1, 2007

Editorial – Planetary Pains

With all the warnings about global warming in recent weeks, you’d be forgiven for thinking the end of the world – Read More...
January 26, 2007

Editorial – Mayday… Mayday

If accounts from a former Air Adam pilot about his tenure at the airline are true, the state of the – Read More...
January 19, 2007

Editorial – ASEAN Bites?

Finally the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have given themselves – or are set to, – Read More...
January 12, 2007

Editorial – New Way Backward

Sending 21,500 more Americans to the hell that has become Iraq will not, as many point out, including the sidelined – Read More...
January 4, 2007

Editorial – Transport Tragedies

Hundreds of people lost their lives in Indonesia in the past week when a ferry sank, a plane crashed and – Read More...
December 24, 2006

Editorial – War and Peace

There’s no better ending to the year just passing than the peace that has descended over Aceh province on the – Read More...
December 15, 2006

Editorial – Tides of Change

How things have changed in Aceh. That a former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) rebel is now the northernmost province’s governor-elect, – Read More...
December 8, 2006

Growing Up in a World of Misunderstandings

By Heyfa Khenissi   MARYLAND ~ I turned 18 this year, and I realized how chaotic the world has become. – Read More...
December 1, 2006

The Pope Is Radical Islam’s Unlikely Soul Mate

Can jihad be redeemed? That is, can the religious and moral sense of purpose that often fuels Islamic extremism be – Read More...