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Vltchek: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Commentary, April, 30 2006
Andre Vltchek
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the most important Southeast Asian novelist and prominent Indonesian dissident, died in Jakarta in the morning of April 30.
Vltchek: Southeast Asia: Those Beloved Malls
Commentary, April, 26 2006
Andre Vltchek
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Paragon in the center of Bangkok is not just some ordinary mall - it is a gigantic marble, steel and glass shopping, dining and entertainment center, surrounded by fountains, connected with the rest of the city by a state of the art "Sky Train". I...
Vltchek: Ubud In Bali: One More Victim Of Globalization
Commentary, April, 03 2006
Andre Vltchek
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Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Ubud used to be one of the most serene places in Asia: a small town of eight thousand inhabitants built on lush-green tropical hills in the middle of "The Island of Gods" - Bali. Its rivers flowed through deep and mysterious...
Vltchek: Condoleezza Rice Revisits The Scene Of Us Crimes
Commentary, March, 27 2006
Andre Vltchek
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"Do you know how Chileans first learned about Indonesia?" asks Jorge Insulza, foreign secretary of the Chilean Communist Party. "Long before the coup of Pinochet, right wingers were intimidating members of progressive movements and parties: '...
Vltchek: 40 Year After Indonesian Holocaust - Silence
Commentary, October, 11 2005
Andre Vltchek
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Jakarta. They came to commemorate the 40th anniversary of one the most intensive massacres in human history. Not many, but at least some 50 or 60 people came. Of all places in Jakarta they gathered in the modest complex of German cultural centre -...
Vltchek: Hurricane Katrina Ð View From Asia
Commentary, September, 01 2005
Andre Vltchek
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Jakarta. More than 8 months ago, one of the worst natural disasters in a human history destroyed substantial part of a province under Indonesian control Ð Aceh. Although the exact number of dead will never be known, close to 250 thousand people...
Vltchek: Hurricane Katrina – View From Asia
Commentary, September, 01 2005
Andre Vltchek
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Jakarta. More than 8 months ago, one of the worst natural disasters in a human history destroyed substantial part of a province under Indonesian control – Aceh. Although the exact number of dead will never be known, close to 250 thousan...
Vltchek: Colonia Dignidad In Chile – Fall Of The “godsâ€
Commentary, August, 01 2005
Andre Vltchek
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Four-lane highway Number Five is smooth and fast, offering outstanding views of The Andes, haciendas surrounded by vineyards and green meadows. It is connecting the capital with Puerto Montt – more than one thousand kilometers south â̈́...
Vltchek: Will Indonesia Be Saved By “euro – 2004�
Commentary, July, 05 2004
Andre Vltchek
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It appears on Indonesian television almost every night: huge red banner advertisements for Gudang Garam, a popular local brand of clove cigarettes, backed by the roar of football fans. ‘Euro-2004’ live from Portugal has begun!
Vltchek: East Timor – Australia’s Shame
Commentary, June, 28 2004
Andre Vltchek
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What can you do if your country is tiny and poor and your wealthy neighbor shamelessly exploits commonly shared area rich in natural resources depriving you of funds so much needed to feed your people?
Vltchek: Thailand: What’s Going On?
Commentary, May, 14 2004
Andre Vltchek
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On Wednesday April 28th, more than a hundred militants clashed with Thai security forces in the three impoverished southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Songkhla near the Malaysian border. They apparently launched coordinated attacks on ten poli...
Vltchek: Indonesia – Not Even Yet At The Crossroad
Commentary, December, 12 2003
Andre Vltchek
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There was no powerful scent of spring flowers in bloom in Jakarta. No girls wearing colourful light dresses, no miniskirts. No passionate embraces in front of the barricades, no guitars, almost no long hair.
Vltchek: East Timor – Indonesian Amnesia
Commentary, August, 31 2003
Andre Vltchek
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Timor Leste: At 55 she looks shockingly old and frail. She lives in Ermera - poor town lost in the green lush hills of East Timor – Timor Leste, the youngest country on earth. Of course she has a name, but it is irrelevant to quote it here...
Vltchek: “activist Nuns†From Tennessee
Commentary, July, 08 2003
Andre Vltchek
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Sister Anne Hablas is a fragile looking lady, over 70 years of age. She is alert, quick and knowledgeable on wide range of domestic and international issues. She has a Master’s degree in history. She is a nun; a nun who doesn’t hes...
Vltchek: New Violence In Gujarat – Don’t Blame It Just On Muslims
Commentary, October, 22 2002
Andre Vltchek
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The night was dark, but the enormous Akshardham Temple and the Cultural Complex in Gandhinagar, belonging to the powerful Swaminarayam sect of Hinduism, was brightly illuminated. Sounds of sporadic explosions and gunfire were coming from the direc...
Vltchek: It’s Illegal To Have Aids In Burma
Commentary, September, 11 2002
Andre Vltchek
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ICG, the International Crisis Group, warns that “HIV prevalence is rising rapidly in Burma/Myanmar, fuelled by population mobility, poverty and frustration that breeds risky sexual activity and drug-taking. Already, one in fifty adults are...
