The stories of Hiroshima survivors offer some healing and some hope To walk the halls of Hiroshima鈥檚 Peace Memorial Museum is to trace humanity at its worst鈥攁nd its best. In this place of human shadows etched onto stone are too many reminders of the too many victims of the world鈥檚 first nuclear bomb used in […]
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In a world of soundbites and political spin, academic blogs can offer an alternative to those wanting to look deeper In the late hours of Saturday 5 May 2013, servers at the Australian National University (ANU) went into meltdown. They were being bombarded with thousands of hits from Malaysia, where the country was waiting on
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After ignoring international outrage and desperate pleas over the executions of foreign drug smugglers, including two Australians, JAMES GIGGACHER asks if Jokowi can ever win back a place in our hearts. As Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and six other men stared down their executioners on Indonesia鈥檚 prison island, Nusakambangan, in the early hours of Wednesday,
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The five-year jail sentence imposed on opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim last week, writes JAMES GIGGACHER, raises serious questions about the future of Malaysia鈥檚 politics and opposition movement. The fate of long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was decided on 10 February – and along with it the increasingly slim democratic prospects for his native Malaysia. With
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