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An American Tourist in Seoul

Julie Alvin | Posted 05.07.2013 | Travel
Julie Alvin

What was remarkable about the visit was how unremarkable it was. The lack of outward concern, the minimal departure from the daily routine, the refusal to stop traveling, reveling, shopping and dining -- this was as revealing as any protest could have been about life in South Korea.

Bomb Threats Shift Aerosmith's Tour Plans

AP | Posted 05.06.2013 | Entertainment

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Aerosmith canceled a show in Indonesia after authorities there said they had foiled a bomb plot targeting the Myanmar Embas...

This City Is Alive With Street Art

Posted 04.26.2013 | Arts

In this week's episode of MOCAtv's new web series, Global Street Art, the YouTube-based project turns its international lens on the graffiti world of ...

How the Sun Helps Nairobi's Slum Dwellers Get Clean Water

Josephine d'Allant | Posted 04.12.2013 | Impact
Josephine d'Allant

Access to water is a central issue for slum dwellers around the world. Getting water is often a time-consuming endeavor that involves waiting in long lines and walking great distances. Water is often more expensive for the poor than for the wealthy, demanding a large portion of families' budgets.

Inspiring 50,000 Indonesian Youth to Become Creators of the Economy

Akhtar Badshah | Posted 04.03.2013 | Impact
Akhtar Badshah

The energy in the stadium was indescribable, and was heightened as the lead singer of a major local rock band energized the crowd before the event began.

Mother Drowns Son For Having Small Penis

Agence France Presse | | Posted 04.30.2013 | World

An Indonesian woman drowned her nine-year-old son in the bath, claiming she was worried that his "small penis" would affect his prospects for the futu...

Informality: The Invisible Divider Between Urban Residents

Josephine d'Allant | Posted 04.24.2013 | Impact
Josephine d'Allant

Because residents of informal settlements in Mexico City are under constant threat of eviction, they do not make infrastructure necessary investments, thereby reducing their health and quality of life.

Give The Urban Poor Opportunity, Not Just Charity

Josephine d'Allant | Posted 04.11.2013 | Impact
Josephine d'Allant

Providing the poor and marginalized with employment is the best way to help them lift themselves out of poverty.

LOOK: Moving Images Of Indonesia's Devastating Floods

Posted 01.23.2013 | World

Flood waters have ravaged Jakarta, Indonesia, in the past week, leaving at least 26 dead so far. The Associated Press reports that torrential rains ca...

The Big Burg Theory

Marian Salzman | Posted 03.12.2013 | World
Marian Salzman

Megacities create megaproblems. Say "cities" and the negative associations come cascading out: noise, dirt, housing projects, shantytowns, concrete, crowding, crime, drugs, pollution, gridlock, stress, alienation. But they also spur people to figure out megasolutions.

Health Interventions and Local Mores: Approaches to Effective Intervention

Josephine d'Allant | Posted 03.12.2013 | Impact
Josephine d'Allant

What impact do local traditions have on health indicators? How can modern approaches be paired with indigenous customs to improve the health of communities? These are some of the questions that our correspondents set out to answer.

School Reportedly Expels Gang-Rape Victim For 'Tarnishing Institution's Image'

Posted 10.10.2012 | World

A private school in Depok City, Indonesia, has reportedly reversed its decision to expel a 14-year-old rape victim, following the media frenzy surroun...

Indonesian Politics: Where's the Party?

Rio Helmi | Posted 10.02.2012 | World
Rio Helmi

Though many individual Indonesian voters, eager to get the country back on track, may see his decisiveness as their best bet amongst a field of questionable candidates, and are therefore in a forgiving mode, Prabowo needs to remember that he needs the parties to forgive him as well.

The Courage to Jump in Indonesia

Stanley Weiss | Posted 11.12.2012 | World
Stanley Weiss

Five years ago, one of the most respected soldiers in U.S. history died too soon. Wayne Downing was a West Point graduate and four-star general who served two tours in Vietnam and came out of retirement after 9/11 to serve as anti-terrorism advisor to President George W. Bush.

Citibank Debt Collectors On The Run

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 07.27.2012 | Business

Irzen Octa, an Indonesian businessman, died in a Citibank office under mysterious circumstances last March, while debt collectors were questioning him...

Military Plane Slams Into Housing Complex

AP | ALI KOTARUMALOS | Posted 08.21.2012 | World

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers Friday resumed searching burned-out houses struck by an Indonesian air force plane that crashed into the military ...

Moving To Indonesia And Into The Present Tense

Kate Willsky | Posted 07.08.2012 | Travel
Kate Willsky

This afternoon, a monsoon opened up the sky and I went onto our sheltered patio and sat on the little couch out there and pulled out my box of Bahasa vocabulary cards

Would You Answer This Call?

Nisha Varia | Posted 01.09.2012 | Women
Nisha Varia

Anis Hidayah was literally going into labor with her second child when she answered her phone, suspecting it would be a migrant worker needing her help. She was right.

Hipsterdom Goes Global

www.csmonitor.com | Posted 01.09.2012 | Home

Hipster-oriented stores appear in Jakarta’s Western-style malls. At the youthful FX Sudirman mall, teenagers seek out skinny jeans, ironic T-shirts,...

Greenpeace Director Denied Entry To Indonesia

AP | Posted 12.14.2011 | Green

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia says it has barred the executive director of the environmental group Greenpeace from entering the country because of r...

Governor's Remarks On Taxi Rapist Fuel Jakartan 'Slut Walk'

Posted 11.19.2011 | World

Crawling Jakarta traffic helped stymie a taxi driver's escape after he allegedly raped a 28-year-old woman, The Jakarta Globe reports. The Indonesi...

WATCH: It Is Hard To Hate America When You're Laughing

Tom Rhodes | Posted 11.08.2011 | Travel
Tom Rhodes

When I came on, my opening line was: "Well, I don't think I have ever seen a foreign audience so happy to see an American before."

WATCH: It Is Hard To Hate America When You're Laughing

Tom Rhodes | Posted 11.08.2011 | Travel
Tom Rhodes

When I came on, my opening line was: "Well, I don't think I have ever seen a foreign audience so happy to see an American before."

Citibank Accused Of Murdering A Credit Card Deadbeat

Washington Post | Andrew Higgins | Posted 10.17.2011 | Business

The 50-year-old businessman, invited to a Citibank office in Jakarta in late March, collapsed in a tiny room set aside by the U.S. bank for question...

Indonesia Hit By Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake

AP | Posted 08.26.2011 | World

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's Papua province on Sunday, causing panic among residents but no immediate re...