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 group of influential retired Thai generals, politicians, academics and businessmen with close links to China have revived plans to construct a US$28 billion canal to link the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Australia, the United States and Japan have denounced island-building and militarisation of the South China Sea in a joint statement likely to prompt an angry response from China.
Diplomats say the ASEAN documents on the South China Sea were carefully worded to avoid angering China.
Weeks after China threatened to attack Vietnam over oil and gas drilling in the flash point waters, Vietnam wants more help.
Singapore's government has taken a bitter feud in the family of the city-state's founder Lee Kuan Yew to the courts.
The hero of East Timor's independence struggle has resigned from the presidency of his party only days after national elections.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will this weekend push for a further widening of sanctions against North Korea at Asia's biggest security forum where the rogue state faces a diplomatic barrage over its nuclear weapons program.
A former adviser to Malaysia's Najib Razak has reportedly been charged over corruption allegations.
A Thai activist has been abducted by armed men in Laos where he operated a community radio network affiliated with Thailand's opposition "red shirt" movement.
Fears that children are being kidnapped across Cambodia to have their kidneys cut out and sold have sparked mob violence and cries by authorities of "fake news".
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