These lines from the West Kalimantan folk song Aek Kapuas (aek means ‘water’ in the local Malay dialect) softly played in the writer’s mind upon setting foot in Pontianak - a city offering more than ...

Pressure is building inside the White House as advisers urge U.S. President Donald Trump to consider an exit strategy from the escalating conflict with Iran. Officials fear a prolonged war could ...

At first glance, Gunung Padang looked like a strange terraced hill in West Java. But deeper investigation suggested something much more extreme: a massive man-made structure with multiple buried ...