Papuans wait impatiently for autonomy -- or freedom

Papuans wait impatiently for autonomy -- or freedom

By Ridwan M. Sijabat

JAYAPURA, Irian Jaya (JP): A visit to urban areas in Irian Jaya, popularly now known as Papua, offers one of many scenes exposing the much cited stark difference among locals and migrants.

2. 5Illegal -- Crackdown may be hard to achieve 2 X 21 36pt NCSB

Vice industry crackdown frustrated by blind eyes

BANGKOK: Night time entertainment is a perennial target of governments. None has been successful in enforcing the law.

Purachai Piumsombun is not the first interior minister to promise to stamp out social ills, including illicit drugs, prostitution and casual sex among teenagers. Like his predecessors, he identifies night time entertainment places as dens of iniquity. They all believed that people's indulgence in such vices should be regulated and that enforcement of the law forbidding people under the age of 20 from entering nightclubs can always be tightened.

3. 5Thai -- Thailand needs leadership 1 x 26 36pt NCSB

Thais await Thaksin transformation

By Sooksan Kantabutra

BANGKOK: In times of crisis, a transformational leader is one who can reorient his nation by charisma and a strategic vision

Thailand is struggling through a period of significant change. One might question what kind of leadership the country currently needs. The answer from many leadership scholars would be transformational leadership, which characterizes one who has an ability to transform an organization, whether it be a country, a ministry, a province or even a village.

4. 5Susul 2 x 28

Arroyo woos Sultan Bolkiah to revive old megaprojects

By Belinda Olivares-Cunanan

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM: Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, supreme ruler of the fabled kingdom of Brunei, pulled all the stops during the three-day visit of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that ended Friday morning.