I'm guessing you'll never read this since I've taken so long to notice your comment and respond, but the answer is quite mundane — I don't like to spend a lot of time reading the news. AJE has good coverage of South-East Asia and the Pacific and to my eye, is effectively as good if not better than BBC News and ABC News (Australia, unrelated to the American one) but with less filler. Just out of curiosity, where do you source your news and what is there not "to get" about reading AJE?
Current Affairs: http://inside.org.au/