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Indonesia’s infrastructure trap: when grand plans outpace local reality image

Indonesia’s infrastructure trap: when grand plans outpace local reality

8 July 2026

The smoke rises first in the morning, hanging low over the outskirts of Denpasar before the heat lifts it into a grey haze. These are not factory plumes but household fires—small piles of mixed waste set alight by residents with nowhere else to take it. Plastic melts. Organic scraps smoulder. The smell lingers, Robert Bociaga reports.

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Diplomacy

Indonesia

Cambodia’s crackdown on scams needs a concrete and durable strategy image

Cambodia’s crackdown on scams needs a concrete and durable strategy

7 July 2026

Cambodia has stepped up efforts to eradicate scam operations. The key challenge is overcoming structural impediments, writes Chheang Vannarith.

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Diplomacy

Cambodia

Indo-Pacific uncertainty, Indian temple funds scandal, huge AI gamble – Asian Media Report image

Indo-Pacific uncertainty, Indian temple funds scandal, huge AI gamble – Asian Media Report

5 July 2026

This week in David Armstrong’s Asian media report: US regional strategy questioned, India donations-theft investigation, South Korea’s massive expansion of chip plants, Pakistan military’s changed political fortunes, China’s new education blueprint, world’s rarest apes’ extinction threat in Indonesia.

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Diplomacy

Asia (general)

How Modi has remade India image

How Modi has remade India

1 July 2026

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has overseen dizzying progress in economic modernisation. But economic progress has come at the cost of weaker democratic institutions and rising bigotry and intimidation against minorities, writes Shashi Tharoor

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Diplomacy

India