Nday, as he is known to his friends, is a successful Indonesian who has gone global.

Since graduating with a degree in architecture from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in 1993, Nday has worked in Singapore, Hong Kong and San Francisco, where he is now based.

Moch N. Kurniawan (VS ‘09) writes about the Indonesian community in the Bay Area for The Jakarta Post.

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In the spring of 2008, Howard Hsu (’09) traveled to Burma as part of a UC Berkeley international reporting class.

View the report and slideshow he produced for FRONTLINE/World about China’s growing trade with Burma, which is rapidly depleting forests and has created a thriving trade in exotic animals.

A group of UC Berkeley Digital TV students traveled to China in the summer of 2008 and produced this multimedia package for the Washington Post about the lives, work  and passions of different Chinese individuals, from Beijing and beyond.

It was a meaningful moment this morning for Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be present in the General Assembly Hall to listen to President W. Bush’s last speech to member states. But, is this a message to the United States? It certainly is. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the mood in Tehran and Washington has changed.

Omid Memarian (’09) writes for the Huffington Post.

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Pakistan is in crisis. Islamic extremism has metastasized from the lawless tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan to Pakistan’s cities. Terrorists tried, and failed, to assassinate the Prime Minister in the capital, Islamabad, on Sept. 3. The nation’s economy is a shambles. And Asif Ali Zardari, the man who has just taken the helm of this nuclear-armed country, is a onetime playboy who has spent more time in prison than in government and who wriggled out of a 2006 corruption trial in Britain by pleading mental instability.

Aryn Baker (’01) reports from Islamabad for TIME Magazine.

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THE god was ready for his night of conjugal bliss. The priests of the temple, muscular, shirtless men with white sarongs wrapped around their thighs, bore the god’s palanquin on their shoulders. They marched him slowly along a stone corridor shrouded in shadows to his consort’s shrine. Drumbeats echoed along the walls. Candles flickered outside the doorway to the shrine’s inner sanctum. There, Meenakshi, the fish-eyed goddess, awaited the embrace of her husband, Sundareshwarar, an incarnation of that most priapic of Indian gods, Shiva.

Edward Wong (’98) writes about his travels in South India for the The New York Times.

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Habiba Sarabi should be wearing spurs and a sheriff’s badge. The diminutive Governor of Bamiyan, one of Afghanistan’s least developed provinces, is laying down the law. The environmental law, that is.

Aryn Baker (’01) writes for TIME Magazine.

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