Should you feel guilty for buying your iPhone?
People stage a protest against Foxconn, which manufactures Apple products in mainland China, in May 2011 in Hong Kong Last week, The New York Times gave us an inside look at what it’s like to work at Foxconn, More...
Indonesia: Train ‘Surfer’ Crackdown By Authorities Begins Again
People ride on top of a crowded commuter train in Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from illegally riding the roofs of trains – hosing down the scofflaws with More...
Comedian Ade Namnung dies at 34
Ade Namnung: (kapanlagi.com) Comedian and TV presenter Syamsul Effendi, popularly known as Ade Namnung, died on Tuesday from a heart attack at the Mitra Keluarga hospital in Cibubur, East Jakarta. He was 34. “Ade More...
What’s behind China’s Tibetan unrest?
Beijing appears determined to contain the volatile situation in an ethnically Tibetan region of southwestern China by sending in thousands of extra security forces. The move comes against a backdrop of anger and More...
Where is Syria crisis heading?
Deadly cat and mouse game in Syria Ten months into the uprising in Syria, deadly clashes between opposition fighters and government forces have now spread to suburbs just 15 minutes from the heart of the capital More...
School brawls take lives
Fight club: In this file photo, students of a junior high school arm themselves with stones they took from a damaged sidewalk. They brawled with students from another school in Jelambar, West Jakarta. The exchange More...
Ex-patients continue to fight stigma
New skills: A former leprosy sufferer is retrained in carpentry. JP/Tarko Sudiarno Housewife Sriyatmo has spent most of her life struggling for respect and dignity. Since first being diagnosed with leprosy at the More...
PKS mulls Tifatul as one of its presidential candidates
Tifatul Sembiring The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is considering party member Tifatul Sembiring as one of its presidential candidates. The party has decided to announce several names of presidential candidates More...
Police to charge Apriyani with murder
Apriyani was under the influence of alcohol and drugs at the time of the crash The Jakarta Police will charge the driver of a Daihatsu Xenia who ran into 12 pedestrians on Jan. 15, killing nine and critically injuring More...
Strange Sea Species Found Off Greenland
Alien of the Deep Looking like a creature from the Alien movies, this nightmarish “longhead dreamer” anglerfish (Chaenophryne longiceps) was until recently an alien species to Greenland waters (map). The More...