Authorities have been unable to explain why the plane crashed just four minutes after take-off.Some analysts have opined that bad weather, pilot error, poo

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Asian markets mostly enjoyed fresh gains Thursday as investors await Joe Biden's proposals for a vast new stimulus as well as comments from the head of the Federal Reserve on its policy outlook.

The monsoon season has caused havoc on the Indonesian island of Bali, causing

The U.S. state of California announced Wednesday that all residents over age 65 would be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine."There is no higher priority than efficiently and equitably dist

Bangkok [Thailand], January 14 (ANI): Indian men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on Thursday bowed out of the Thailand Open after stumbling to a loss in the second round. T

JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday that China and Indonesia reached a five-point consensus during his visit to the country.

PanARMENIAN.Net - More than 43 million hectares of forest -- an area bigger than Germany -- have been lost in a little over a decade in just a handful of deforestation hotspots, co

JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday that the idea of multilateralism should be earnestly upheld, principles of multilaterali

JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo met with Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday with both sides pledging to join hands to firmly uphold multinational

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic in seven more prefectures including Osaka and Aichi on Wednesday, broadening the scope of th

New Delhi [India], January 13 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday criticised three municipal corporations in Delhi for not providing cashless medical services to their retired employees including

JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia reported 11,278 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon, the highest single-day rise since the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country, brin

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Sriwijaya Air has not had a fatal crash since starting operations in 2003.More than 3 000 personnel are taking part in the recovery effort.

JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian police's Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team has identified four people killed in the Sriwijaya Air plane crash days ago. "As of Wednesday at 9

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 13 (ANI): The Indonesian President Joko Widodo received his first shot of the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine, Sinovac, on Wednesday, marking the launch of the country's mass imm

Equities mostly rose as investors struggled for traction in Asia on Wednesday following a tepid lead from Wall Street, with hopes for another vast US virus relief package offset by political upheav

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

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