QALA-E-NAW, Afghanistan -- At least 12 people were killed and many others wounded after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Afghanistan's western province of Badghis on Monday, a local official said. The source added that multiple houses were affected by ...

NANNING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- A freight train left the port of Qinzhou on the south China coast bound for the inland province of Yunnan on Saturday, loaded with goods such as sugar from Pakistan and coconut milk from south China's Hainan Province. The...

JAKARTA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has seized 218.46 kg crystal methamphetamine and 16,586 ecstasy pills, and arrested 11 suspects in three provinces over recent days, said the head of the BNN, Commissioner Gener...

JAKARTA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday visited the construction site of the Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway (HSR) No. 2 Tunnel to inspect the construction progress. Widodo said the construction of the Jakarta-Bandu...

JAKARTA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Monday confirmed 772 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country's tally of infections to 4,272,421, according to the country's Health Ministry. Senior official Siti Nadia Tarmizi said the total number of infecti...

JAKARTA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's foreign debt in November 2021 was recorded at 416.4 billion U.S. dollars, down from the previous month's 422.3 billion dollars, the country's central bank Bank Indonesia (BI) said Monday. Of the 416.4 billion ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo has chosen Nusantara, or archipelago in English, as the name of the new national capital to be built on the country's Kalimantan island, a senior government official said Monday. "I just r...

JAKARTA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia recorded a declining trade surplus of 1.02 billion U.S. dollars in December 2021, down from 3.51 billion dollars in the previous month, official data showed on Monday. The exports in December last year were valu...

New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on Monday congratulated Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty for clinching the men's doubles final of the Indian Open 2022. Tendulkar also congratulated Lakshya Sen for wi...

JAKARTA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo has approved the extension of the luxury sales tax (locally known as PPnBM) incentive for automotive products, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said. Cars with...

New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): Shuttler Satwiksairaj Rankireddy has said winning India Open was on his bucket list ever since he started playing badminton. The Indian duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty clinched the victory in the ...

© Provided by Xinhua Hospitals in Indonesia are preparing to deal with cases of the more contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19, which has overwhelmed medical facilities in more than 150 countries and regions.by Hayati NupusJAK

New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the 'State of the World' special address at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos Agenda on Monday. According to Prime Minister's Office (PMO), PM Modi will address the W...

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - A massive volcanic eruption in Tonga that triggered tsunami waves around the Pacific caused 'significant damage' to the island nation's capital and smothered it in dust, but the full extent was unclear with communications st...

BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A study showed that the ancient relatives of modern humans in northern China may have had an "Einstein's brain" at the time they lived 200,000 to 160,000 years ago. An international team led by Chinese archaeologists foun...

JAKARTA, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Sunday confirmed 855 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country's tally to 4,271,649, according to the country's health ministry. The ministry also reported three more deaths, bringing the death toll to 144,170,...

New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): Indian shuttler Chirag Shetty, who along with Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, clinched the victory in the men's doubles finals of the ongoing Indian Open 2022, on Sunday, said that the summit clash was one of the best ga...

New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the 'State of the World' special address at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos Agenda on Monday, said Prime Minister's Office on Sunday. PM Modi will address the WEF a...

New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): India shuttler Lakshya Sen won the men's singles final of the ongoing India Open 2022 here at the KD Jadhav Stadium here on Sunday. Lakshya Sen defeated Singapore's Loh Kean Yew 24-22, 21-17 in the summit clash th...

New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): Indian duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty clinched the victory in the men's doubles finals of the ongoing Indian Open 2022, which is part of the BWF World Tour tournament series, at the KD Jadhav Sta...

New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): The 16-year-old Tasnim Mir who became the first Indian badminton player to be ranked world number one, has said that her sole focus is doing well in the senior ranks as well. "I always want to perform well. This [...

Washington [US], January 16 (ANI): Stable ColorOS 12 updates based on Android 12 are now officially available for Oppo's F19 Pro 5G, Reno6 Z 5G, and A73 5G. As per GSM Arena, stable ColorOS 12 updates based on Android 12 are now seeding for OPPO F19 ...

© Provided by Xinhua BOGOR, Indonesia, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The New Year comes, with the atmosphere of reunion and nostalgia getting stronger. In Indonesia's Bogor, craftsmen use bamboo to make traditional dragon and lion heads to celebrate the upcom...

TOKYO -- Japan reported 25,742 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, surpassing the 25,000-mark for the first time since Aug. 26, 2021, according to a tally based on data from local governments across the country. In the last two weeks, the daily count has...

by Hayati Nupus JAKARTA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Hospitals in Indonesia are preparing to deal with cases of the more contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19, which has overwhelmed medical facilities in more than 150 countries, said the Chairperson of the ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Saturday confirmed 1,054 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise since Oct. 13, 2021, amid the spread of the Omicron variant in the archipelago. With the hike, the tally of infections in Indonesia ros...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 15 (ANI): Shilky Devi, a 16-year-old member of the Indian women's football team, who apart from wearing the captain's armband in junior international matches, is also set to lead the charts in one particular cate...

New Delhi [India], January 15 (ANI): While the world is still reeling under the Wuhan virus, India emerged as a 'saviour' by providing medicines globally across the continent, amply describing the epithet - the pharmacy of the world. India has delive...

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 15 (ANI/Xinhua): Over 900 houses and buildings were destroyed, and two people were wounded after a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's capital Jakarta and its surrounding provinces on Friday, disaster agency o...

New Delhi [India], January 15 (ANI): While the world is still reeling under the Wuhan virus, India emerged as a 'saviour' by providing medicines globally across the continent, amply describing the epithet - the pharmacy of the world. India has delive...

JAKARTA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Over 900 houses and buildings were destroyed, and two people were wounded after a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's capital Jakarta and its surrounding provinces on Friday, disaster agency officials said on ...

Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh) [India], January 14 (ANI): Chakrasnanam was held with religious fervour in Tirumala on Friday. The Sudarshana Chakrattalwar was brought to Sri Bhu Varaha Swamy temple between 5 am and 6 am and Snapana Tirumanjanam was perfor...

HONG KONG -- The current anti-epidemic measures will be extended for 14 more days until Feb. 3, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Friday. A series of updates regarding anti-epidemic measures were announced by...

JAKARTA, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Friday confirmed 850 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the country's tally of infections to nearly 4.27 million, according to the Indonesian Health Ministry. Health authorities reported on Friday that the total nu...

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 14 (ANI): Students from various campuses under the aegis of the Islamic Student Alliance (AMI) staged a demonstration in front of the Chinese Embassy, Jakarta on Friday. The students in a statement said: "Human Rights Org...

JAKARTA, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has lifted the entry ban on international visitors with travel histories from 14 countries in the last two weeks to restore the country's economy, the COVID-19 Task Force said on Friday. The task...

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 14 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia's capital Jakarta, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed on Friday. "Earthquake of Magnitude: 6.6, Occurred on 14-01-2022, 14:35:46 I...

SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest free trade pact, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), could help export-reliant Asian companies and may be good diplomacy, experts say.The trade agreement went into effect Jan. 1.In Thailand, Pra...

Cambodia on Wednesday postponed the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting under its 2022 chairmanship, the government said, amid reports of differences among the bloc's members over Prime Minister Hun Sen's visit to Myanmar last week, ...

Malaysia is world's second-largest producing country of palm oilMalaysia's commodities ministry said on Thursday the nation plans to adopt an ?attacking and aggressive? approach to marketing its palm oil, a vital commodity for the national economy.Th...

HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) announced on Thursday that its research team has successfully developed "anti-virus 3D printing material" that can kill the COVID-19 virus on surfaces as well as most common viruses and bacter...

JAKARTA -- Four people were killed after a train hit a minivan in Indonesia's East Java Province on Thursday afternoon, an official of state-owned railway operator Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) said. The accident occurred when the minivan carrying four ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed after a train hit a minivan in Indonesia's East Java Province on Thursday afternoon, an official of state-owned railway operator Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) said. The accident occurred when the mini...

JAKARTA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government is preparing nearly 700 pinisi ships and a number of cruises as additional accommodations for tourists during the forthcoming world-class MotoGP motorcycle event in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara pro...

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 13 (ANI/Xinhua): Indonesia on Thursday confirmed 793 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total tally to 4,268,890, according to the Indonesian Health Ministry. The ministry reported that the total number of coronavirus relat...