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In South-east Asia, cyber criminals make hay of government websites
A top level investigation into cyber crime has identified nearly 9000 malware-laden servers and hundreds of compromised websites, including government portals in Asia.
Lindsay Murdoch is a three-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia's top award for journalistic excellence. Lindsay is a former correspondent based in Singapore, Jakarta and Darwin. In 1999 he covered the tumultuous events in East Timor, and in 2003 he covered the Iraq war while embedded with US Marines.
A top level investigation into cyber crime has identified nearly 9000 malware-laden servers and hundreds of compromised websites, including government portals in Asia.
A Filipino lawyer asked the International Criminal Court to charge the Philippine President with mass murder and crimes against humanity in the killings of thousands of people over three decades.
Several times customs officials noticed a man carrying a strange-looking case across crossing the border from north-eastern Thailand to Laos, a known smuggling route.
Najib Razak, preparing to call early elections, has accused journalists of fabricating fake news about Malaysia.
Thai authorities have ordered the clearance of food stalls across the capital by the end of the year.
Malaysia's former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has filed a new legal challenge to his five-year jail sentence on sodomy charges that are widely seen as politically-motivated.
The well-planned abduction by at least 15 masked men of a protestant pastor and the disappearances of three other church-linked people in Malaysia.
Filipino drug users and addicts at risk of execution under President Rodrigo Duterte's so-called war on drugs were among devotees at an annual Easter ritual where men nail themselves to the cross.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been "hung out to dry" over atrocities on Rohingya Muslims, according to two politicians from outside Myanmar.
Thailand's military government has banned its citizens contacting or sharing social media posts from three outspoken critics living outside of the country.
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