Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (July 2, 2026) ...

Fact check - No scientific data or official warnings from either country. The only photos circulating are old images of Mount ...

The fall of Java revealed the deadly cost of a command structure built too quickly under impossible pressure. ABDA forces ...

Bandung is advancing three major transport projects, backed by foreign funding, to cut congestion and improve mobility.

In Southeast Asia, the average share of major appliances, including refrigeration, home laundry appliances and dishwashers, ...

Nachi was one of Japan’s powerful Myōkō class heavy cruisers, armed with ten eight inch guns and Type 93 Long Lance torpedoes ...

After more than 80 years overseas, a piece of history comes home to Jack County during a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the bond between two soldiers, two families and two nations.

Hello! This is the Demaecan note team. On May 31, 2026, "JJUG CCC 2026 Spring," the largest Java community event in Japan, was held. Demaecan sponsored the event, hosted a booth, and gave a session ...

March 1942. Java. With the capitulation of the Dutch, the Australian troops have been forced to surrender. They have been moved by the Japanese to a former Dutch army facility in Batavia (Jakarta) ...

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Somewhere In Java -- Japanese invasion forces, crossing the Java sea and fighting off heavy Allied air attacks, effected three landings on the north coast of Java Sunday and were ...

The brown, lean men gazed down the barrels of their Dutch and American rifles at the yellow visitors. The brown men fired. The yellow men fell. Dutch officers urged on the Amboinese—the best native ...

All the open spaces around the great naval airfield at Surabaya, Java, are set with bamboo stakes, about waist high, their tops whittled razor-sharp. A visiting journalist recently asked what they ...