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
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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
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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
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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.