Glodok was once the vibrant heart of this capital city’s Chinese community. Yet, a full decade since Chinese New Year became a public holiday in Indonesia, Jakarta’s historic Chinatown is a faint shadow of its once-bustling self. To be sure, there are sp

The daughter of former President Megawati Sukarnoputri has been promoted to chair the main opposition party’s bloc in the House of Representatives, but she denied the move was part of efforts to groom her for a possible presidential run. The decision for

The Chinese New Year has special significance for the ethnic Chinese population of Indonesia, where they have long existed as a despised and envied minority group. Only recently has Indonesia removed measures that prohibited the exhibition of Chinese lan

(MENAFN - Jordan Times) India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, and Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia - these women leaders dominated South and

NEW Delhi, India (AP) — If North Korea’s new leader is looking for advice on how to carry on his family’s dynasty, he could turn to Rahul Gandhi, who is on a quest to become the fourth generation of his family to rule India. Or to Joseph Kabila, who is c

The new year is here, but it isn’t a happy one. It should have felt like the beginning of something new, but it feels, instead, like the end of all that might have been. And so, 2012 doesn’t look like it will be a good year for India. The term Arab Spri