Amanda Hodge

Amanda HodgeSouth East Asia Correspondent

Amanda Hodge is The Australian’s South East Asia correspondent, based in Jakarta. She has lived and worked in Asia since 2009, covering social and political upheaval from Afghanistan to East Timor. She has won a Walkley Award, Lowy Institute media award and UN Peace award.

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King Sino and his Aussie subjects

He calls himself King of Kings and runs a money cult that has drawn in dozens of Australians.

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The World

Daughter lets fly at Najib wife

The step-daughter of the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has issued a rebuke to her own family.

Amanda Hodge

The Nation

MH370 search to be ‘suspended’

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be suspended if it’s not located in the current search area.

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Financial Services

(FILES) This file photo taken on February 22, 2016 shows Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak (C) arriving for a joint police-army exercise at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia's prime minister and the company he founded, 1MDB, have weathered a year-long barrage of corruption allegations with nothing-to-see-here assurances, but a string of recent revelations is placing those denials under growing strain. / AFP PHOTO / MOHD RASFAN

US probes ANZ affiliate

The US is probing hundreds of millions of dollars in dubious transactions completed through ANZ’s Malaysian affiliate.

Ben Butler and Amanda Hodge

The Nation

Lee Chee Kiang (pictured), is understood to have fled Sarawak on June 23, two days after activist and opposition party candidate Bill Kayong was shot dead.

Malaysian suspect flees here

A Malaysian businessman implicated in the murder of a land rights activist in Sarawak last month has fled to Australia.

Amanda Hodge

The World

Santoso, alias Abu Wardah, leader of the East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT), is believed to have been killed by security forces in the jungles of Poso, Central Sulawesi. Source: YouTube

Jakarta takes out ISIS leader

Indonesia’s most wanted terrorist, Santoso, believed to be killed in joint police and military operation in central Sulawesi.

Amanda Hodge and Nivell Rayda

The World

Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's former prime minister, speaks during an interview in his office in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Monday, April. 04, 2016. Sanjit Das/The Australian

Mahathir to fight Najib Razak

The former Malaysian prime minister has ruled out leading the party, saying he will instead provide guidance.

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ExclusiveThe World

Dili eyes gap in sea row

East Timor has accused Australia of hypocrisy for refusing to use international law to resolve the Timor Sea dispute.

Amanda Hodge

The World

Philippine and Japanese Coast Guard personnel conduct a drill as they board a Philippine Coast Guard boat during their annual anti-piracy exercise in the waters off Manila Bay on July 13, 2016, a day after a UN-backed tribunal declared China has no "historic rights" in the South China Sea. China warned of "conflicts and confrontation" in the South China Sea as it angrily rejected July 13 an international tribunal's verdict that its claims to most of the strategically vital waterway had no legal basis. / AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE

Fishing folk up for some action

News of Manila’s legal victory over Beijing this week was greeted in Infanta with a euphoria reserved for sport.

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The World

Protesters shout slogans during a rally outside of the Chinese Consulate hours before the Hague-based UN international arbitration tribunal is to announce its ruling on the South China Sea Tuesday, July 12, 2016, in Makati city, east of Manila, Philippines. The protesters are urging China to respect the Philippines' rights over its exclusive economic zone and extended continental shelf as mandated by the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Ruling a victory for all: Aquino

Ex-Philippines’ president Benigno Aquino called it a “victory for all” and Filipinos on social sites dubbed it CHexit.

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