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View all search resultsIn a statement issued late Thursday, the foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations urged "all parties for an immediate cessation of violence" in Myanmar, which has been roiled by conflict since the military seized power in a February 2021 coup.
Duterte on Jan. 30 called for the independence of his hometown island Mindanao in the southern Philippines as his alliance with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr disintegrated last week over disagreements around efforts to amend the constitution.
It has been five months since Philip Mehrtens, who works for the frontier airliner Susi Air, was abducted by the West Papua Liberation Army (TPNPB), an affiliate of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) following a flight to Nduga, Papuan Highlands.
While it remains to be seen whether the recently signed US-PNG defense cooperation will ruffle not a few feathers in Jakarta over the issue of Papua, we would do well to look at our own housekeeping rather than seek to cook up a far-fetched conspiracy theory.
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