Time to come home for the Bali Nine,left doing hard time in Indonesia
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Bali Nine

Time to come home for the Bali Nine,left doing hard time in Indonesia

Hope grows for remaining Bali Nine prisoners to return to Australia to serve their sentences.

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Losing ground to rebels,Myanmar junta tries an olive branch

Losing ground to rebels,Myanmar junta tries an olive branch

Just as resistance forces appear close to capturing the country’s second-biggest city,Mandalay,military rulers put up a new proposal.

  • bySui-Lee Wee
After Vietnam,Typhoon Yagi came for war-ravaged Myanmar

After Vietnam,Typhoon Yagi came for war-ravaged Myanmar

Even before the typhoon,the UN estimated 18.6 million people out of a total population of 55 million needed humanitarian assistance.

  • byZach Hope
Bibi was given $4 a day to survive. Now that allowance has been cut to zero

Bibi was given $4 a day to survive. Now that allowance has been cut to zero

As humanitarian crises unfold around the globe,the United Nations is looking at its books.

  • byZach Hope andKaruni Rompies
Australia’s least likely spy on tipping the balance in a brutal civil war

Australia’s least likely spy on tipping the balance in a brutal civil war

Sean Turnell was Aung San Suu Kyi’s financial Mr Fix-it and says everything is pointing to the defeat of Myanmar’s junta.

  • byMichael Ruffles
‘Hundreds’ including women and children killed in drone attacks crossing river to flee war
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‘Hundreds’ including women and children killed in drone attacks crossing river to flee war

Horrific stories are emerging of an atrocity in war-ravaged Myanmar,allegedly at the hands of a rebel army,which has denied responsibility.

  • byZach Hope andSaiful Arakani
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How Maya – who was banned from dancing – found her groove

How Maya – who was banned from dancing – found her groove

As a girl in Iran,she watched music videos in her room but being a professional dancer was not feasible. That changed when she came to Melbourne and joined hip-hop crew L2R.

  • byCarolyn Webb
Rebels celebrate taking key border town,Thailand left scrambling

Rebels celebrate taking key border town,Thailand left scrambling

Concerns of a Myanmar military counter-offensive at the border has drawn neighbouring Thailand closer to the conflict.

  • byZach Hope
Julie Bishop named United Nations special envoy for Myanmar

Julie Bishop named United Nations special envoy for Myanmar

Myanmar has been locked in civil war since the army took power from Aung Suu Kyi’s elected government in 2021.

  • byMichael Mehr andJohn Kidman
China’s cash promises in South-East Asia are coming up short,report says

China’s cash promises in South-East Asia are coming up short,report says

President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013,immediately winning over many foreign governments with promises of unprecedented investment.

  • byZach Hope
Dozens of Rohingya refugees feared dead in boat tragedy off Indonesia

Dozens of Rohingya refugees feared dead in boat tragedy off Indonesia

Asian news agencies,one citing an Indonesian official,reported the boat was headed to Australia. Border Force said this was not true.

  • byZach Hope andKaruni Rompies