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In ancient times Sumatra was known by the Sanskrit names of Swarnadwīpa (Island of Gold) and Swarnabhūmi (Land of Gold), due to the gold dep...

There seems to be a recent pattern of visiting sites of human suffering but my visit to Aceh province in Northern Sumatra was to go diving a...

On my way to the Malaysian border, the only thing I knew about Malaysia before this visit was that in 1993 the Australian PM, Paul Keating c...

I spent 3 weeks in Malaysia and connected a loop around the peninsula from Penang, the British East India company trading colony. I crossed...

To understand the recent ‘Red Shirt’ protest’s that lasted approximately 2 months, you need to go back to the 1997 constitution, understand ...

The only way to describe the islands is the way I saw them… ‘They are oversubscribed and the locals don’t care about their environment!!’. ...

I visited the Hellfire Pass Museum on the site of the longest and deepest excavation on the 415km railway built by the Japanese during WWII....