Event: Global Voices Online - Since mid June until today, most areas in the Riau province of Indonesia, south western coast of Malaysia and Singapore are affected by thick hazardous clouds of haze which originated from the southern part of the Sumatera Island. The source of the haze is mainly a 3,000 hectare peat land in the Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province, which was set ablaze by unknown parties on the…

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News: Indonesia will host the 2013 Miss World competition in the country's resort island of Bali and the capital, Jakarta, in September. Miss World organisers have axed the famed bikinis from this year's pageant, replacing them with conservative beach sarongs amid mounting protests from hardline Muslim groups. Adjie S. Soeratmadjie, one of the local organisers, said on Thursday that all contestants will be required to wear Bali's traditional long sarongs…

Event: The second US-Bangladesh Partnership Dialogue was held during 27-28 May 2013 in Dhaka. The partnership dialogue is now an annual reporting and performance evaluation event where Hasina government reports and takes policy directions from its master, the US. Through these dialogues the US can officially dictate on policy matters of Bangladesh ranging from politics, business to security issues. Sheikh Hasina's government had to discuss labour issues, the agreement on…