Nithin Coca

In early 2017, South Korea decided to deploy the U.S.-made THAAD missile defense system, designed to protect …

Internment camps with up to a million prisoners. Empty neighborhoods. Students, musicians, athletes, and peac…

Kana Naito had worked eight years at a prestigious American brokerage firm in Tokyo when she decided she was …

Xinjiang is the home to the Uyghurs, a Turkic people who mostly follow Islam and have a distinct culture and …

Reuters journalist Wa Lone is escorted by police as he leaves court outside Yangon, Myanmar (Jan. 10, 2018). …

"China's extensive use of digital trade barriers ... have reshaped the production and sales of many global te…

Early last year, Indonesia's new President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, a political outsider elected with the suppor…

Big news from Indonesia - President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo recently announced a comprehensive ban on new mining…

Over the past half-century, they've been destroyed at a rapid clip. And it's only getting worse. Just last ye…

Late last year, devastating fires engulfed 2 million hectares of land in Indonesia. They were driven by years…

Pekanbaru, in the heart of the biodiverse, tropical island of Sumatra, is one of Indonesia's richest cities. …

By now, most people have recognized "the sharing economy" as more a convenient slogan than as heralding a new…

Taiwan has in recent years experienced some of the world's most dramatic protests. The Sunflower Movement, a …

When marketers decide how to spend their advertising money online, a few stats are crucial. First, usage time…

In the heart of Medan, Indonesia third largest city and the setting for much of Joshua Oppenheimer's Oscar-no…

In early 2008, months before China was to welcome the world to the Olympic Games in Beijing, an uprising bega…

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has prohibited Singapore-based Golden Agri Resources (GAR) from…

In 2000, Indonesia was facing a crisis. With a shambolic economy and a newly established, but weak, democracy…

Last year, thousands of Indonesians collected coins in a last-minute attempt to save a migrant worker, Satina…

2014 was a banner year for protests in many rapidly growing and changing countries in East and Southeast Asia…

At most literary soirées, mentioning the works of Okky Madasari, Ayu Utami or Seno Gumira Ajidarma would resu…

Indonesia may be Southeast Asia's most successful democracy, but communist and regional parties are still ban…

Indonesia polls are a contest between two diametrically opposed views of the country's troubled past.

Indonesia's Muslim parties fared better than expected in April's parliamentary vote but are unlikely to win p…