Thailand coup: Junta disbands Senate, tightens grip across country

Lindsay Murdoch Thailand's military junta has dramatically tightened its grip across the country, disbanding the Senate and purging the bureaucracy of senior officials seen as allies of the deposed government.

Obama to shun Anwar Ibrahim on Malaysia visit

Lindsay Murdoch Barack Obama plans to shun the popular opposition leader when he becomes the first US President to visit Malaysia in nearly half a century.

China's maritime push rattles a region

Lindsay Murdoch When Chinese tugboats edged a structure as high as a 40-storey building into the South China Sea in April, Beijing's neighbours never foresaw that it would trigger a chain reaction in one of the...

What the government isn't telling you about Bangkok

Lindsay Murdoch The Australian government’s smartraveller.gov.au advisory for travelers doesn’t say it. But it’s time to speak bluntly: Do not enter or go near anti-government protest sites in...

Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: search continues as stolen passports raise terrorism fears

Lindsay Murdoch, Nick Toscano, Philip Wen, Melanie Kembrey, Amanda Hoh The fate of a Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared on its way to Beijing has baffled the six nations now desperately searching for the aircraft.

Missing Malaysia Airlines jet: Criticism of authorities mounts as search area is widened

Lindsay Murdoch Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's military detected radar signals showing what could be the missing Malaysia Airlines plane hundreds of kilometres off course over the Straits of Malacca.

Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: Will the mystery of flight MH370 ever be solved?

Lindsay Murdoch Kuala Lumpur: Authorities in Kuala Lumpur admit that two weeks after Malaysia Airlines MH370 vanished they are pursuing no strong leads and may never unlock one of the most baffling mysteries of...

MH370 search continues with no strong leads

Lindsay Murdoch Authorities in Kuala Lumpur admit that two weeks after Malaysia Airlines MH370 vanished they are pursuing no strong leads and may never unlock one of the most baffling mysteries of modern aviation.

Missing Malaysia Airlines flight: Plane crashed in Indian Ocean, all 239 passengers dead

Lindsay Murdoch Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed into a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people on board, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak announced early Tuesday.

Search for MH370: New satellite images of 122 objects, AMSA sightings

Lindsay Murdoch, Saffron Howden New satellite images have identified 122 objects in a 400-square-kilometre area of the Indian Ocean which Malaysian authorities believe are from the missing Malaysian airliner.

Push to take control: Australia to lead the probe into MH370

David Wroe, Tom Allard, Lindsay Murdoch The air crash investigation into the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is likely to be based in Australia, amid a push for the wreckage and the black box to be scrutinised here.

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Obama turns focus on Asia

Lindsay Murdoch BARACK OBAMA arrives in Bangkok on Sunday, the first stop in a whirlwind trip to south-east Asia that aims to reinforce the US's role as a counterweight to China.

Arms race explodes as neighbours try to counter China

Lindsay Murdoch PHNOM PENH: An arms-buying spree across south-east Asia will be the elephant in the room when almost 20 world leaders meet in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, on Tuesday.

Asian nations feud over South China Sea

Lindsay Murdoch Phnom Penh: Tensions over rival territorial claims in the South China Sea have flared at a meeting of Asia leaders, overshadowing wider talks Tuesday on security, economics and trade.

Gillard pours oil on troubled waters

Lindsay Murdoch PHNOM PENH: The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has stressed the importance of shipping routes through the South China Sea for Australia as new tensions flared over rival claims to the resource-rich...

Tensions flare over sea dispute at summit

Lindsay Murdoch South-east Asia Correspondent Phnom Penh PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has stressed the importance to Australia of shipping routes through the South China Sea, as new tensions flared over rival claims to the resource-rich area at a summit of...

Wen Jiabao adamant on South China Sea claim

Lindsay Murdoch Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has made a strong defence of his country's claim to almost all of the South China Sea at summit of world leaders.

Rare earths move for Anwar, but only if proved safe

Lindsay Murdoch Malaysia's Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has pledged to back Australian miner Lynas operating a controversial rare earths processing plant, if a new public inquiry proves it to be safe.

Legal rows and cash crises stall justice in Cambodia

Lindsay Murdoch, Phnom Penh As one notorious Khmer Rouge killer learns his fate, the future of further genocide trials is in doubt.