The Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 disaster serves as a warning for aviation safety regulators, not only in Indonesia but worldwide.Four minutes after taking off from Jakarta in heavy rain on Janu

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - ULAN BATOR -- Mongolia reported 13 more COVID-19 cases in the pas

JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday received the COVID-19 vaccine shot developed by China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech. The president, widely known as Jok

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

In a rebuke from Congress, U.S. Representatives Gregory Meeks of New York and Michael McCaul of Texas chastised the heads of USAGM and Voice of America on Tuesday for reassigning a VOA White House

PYONGYANG -- The 8th congress of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea closed here on Tuesday, reported official media on Wednesday. Kim Jong

Indonesian President Joko Widodo receives the first shot of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine. (Courtesy of BPMI)JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo on W

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Indonesian authorities have retrieved one of the black boxes from a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea at the weekend, a navy spokesman said on Tuesday.T

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of victims of two landslides that hit an Indonesian village over the weekend rose to 16 on Tuesday after rescuers retrieved three bodies from

JAKARTA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Divers on Tuesday retrieved a flight data recorder (FDR), also known as the black box, of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plane that plunged into the water off the coa

Perth surfer Taras Mulik found dead on Bali beach PerthNow

MOSCOW -- A fire in a nine-story residential building in the western Russian city of Yekaterinburg killed eight people Tuesday, including one child, according to the regional Investigative Committe

BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - MOSCOW -- Russia confirmed 22,934 new COVID-19 cases in the past

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JAKARTA, Jan, 12 (Xinhua) -- Divers on Tuesday retrieved a black box of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plane that plunged into the water off the coast of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturda

KUALA LUMPUR -- Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac is partnering with Malaysian pharmaceutical company Pharmaniaga for the supply of 14 million doses of its inactivated COVID-19 vaccines to Mal

JAKARTA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 10,047 within one day to 846,765, with the death toll adding by 302 to 24,645, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. Accor

Bangkok [Thailand], January 12 (ANI): India's ace shuttler PV Sindhu on Tuesday crashed out of the ongoing Thailand Open in the opening round after losing the hard-fought match against Denmark's Mia B

Asian markets fluctuated Tuesday as hopes for the rollout of coronavirus vaccines and a new stimulus out of Washington competed with fears over surging infections, new lockdowns and brewing politic

Bangkok [Thailand], January 12 (ANI): Indian mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa kicked off the Thailand Open with a scintillating win on Tuesday. The duo staged an upse

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

SANAA -- Yemen's government on Monday welcomed the move by the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to designate the Houthi militia as "a terrorist organization," the Yemeni Foreign Ministry said in

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - MOSCOW -- Russia recorded 23,315 more COVID-19 cases over the pas

SEOUL -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that his government can hold dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) anytime, anywhere and even in a contactless way.

Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee display the debris of the Sriwijaya Air plane found during

KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said Monday that his country will start its first phase 3 clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines which involved a Chinese vaccine candidate f

JAKARTA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's food and drug authority BPOM on Monday issued the emergency use authorization for Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine as the country will begin administering doses o

JAKARTA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 8,692 within one day to 836,718, with the death toll adding by 214 to 24,343, the Health Ministry said on Monday. Accordi

JAKARTA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported among overseas Indonesians rose to 2,742 with seven more positive infections detected, the Indonesian Foreign Ministr

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 11 (ANI/Xinhua): The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 8,692 within one day to 836,718, with the death toll adding by 214 to 24,343, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

Asian markets were mixed Monday as traders struggled to track another record performance on Wall Street, though investors remain broadly upbeat on the prospect of a further massive stimulus for the

Divers pulled body parts, wreckage and clothing from waters off Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Sunday, as the military picked up a signal from the wreckage of a passenger jet that crashed with 62 p

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Authorities have pinpointed the location of two black boxes from a crashed Indonesian jet, they said Sunday, referring to cockpit voice and flight data recorders that could be

The black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air's plane that crashed on Saturday appear to have been located.The cause of the crash is still unknown, with all 62 pass

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Divers pulled body parts, wreckage and clothing from waters off Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Sunday, as the military picked up a signal from the wreckage of a passenger jet t