THE bedroom of one 3x4-meter house with aluminum sheet roofing and plywood walls is connected to the kitchen. Mary Jane Fiesta, her husband, and their two children, used to live in this house, located in Esguerra village in Talavera, Nueva Ecija province, in the Philippines. "Its condition has not changed much since she left," Floramay Ladrillano, a cousin of Michael Candelaria, Mary Jane's husband, told Tempo, last week.

THE lyrics became very famous in Sudan after the 1955 Asia-Africa (AA) conference in Bandung. The song Asia-Africa was again played repeatedly in Sudan ahead of the 60th anniversary of this year's conference. The Sudanese creator and composer, Abdel Karem Wlkabili, was inspired by the spirit of Sudan's struggle for independence.

A LIMITED cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office on March 16 was disrupted by the intermittent protests of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said. His source of unhappiness was Presidential Deputy Chief of Staff Darmawan Prasodjo who commented on Sudirman's speech. And to add insult to injury, Darmawan gave his own presentation on the Mahakam Block at this ministerial meeting led by President Joko Widodo himself.