NEW DELHI, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Australia crushed Indonesia 18-0 on Friday in the ongoing Women Asia Football Cup in India. Australian women scored nine goals in each half in the Pune city of India's south-western state of Maharashtra. Indonesian girl...

SEOUL -- One person was confirmed dead and three others were injured in a fire that broke out at an automotive battery factory in South Korea's southern city, Yonhap news agency reported Friday. The fire broke out at about 3:00 p.m. local time (0600 ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Friday confirmed 2,604 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise since Sept. 24, 2021, amid the spread of the Omicron variant in the archipelago. With the newly reported cases, the total tally of infect...

JAKARTA, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Four people died and 22 others were injured in a multiple-vehicle crash in Indonesia's Balikpapan city, East Kalimantan province, a police officer said Friday. A container truck running on a downhill road on Friday mornin...

London [UK], January 21 (ANI): The people in Afghanistan are facing numerous challenges - be it the drought, COVID-19, an impounding economy and declining rights under the new regime, says experts during a recently held virtual summit. The event titl...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 21 (ANI): Title-chasing Australia proved far too strong for an inexperienced Indonesia, as they surged to an 18-0 win in their Group B opening AFC Women's Asian Cup India 2022 match at Mumbai Football Arena on Fr...

New Delhi [India], January 21 (ANI): India's first High-Performance Director (HPD) for Weightlifting, Aveenash Pandoo, said on Friday that his approach for Indian weightlifting would be to adopt an athlete-centric approach where India would focus on ...

© Provided by Xinhua JAKARTA, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Take a look at the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) at Medan Zoopark in North Sumatra province, Indonesia.Sumatran tigers are critically endangered as fewer than 400 are holding on for survi...

Teenage pilot Zara Rutherford landed in Kortrijk, Belgium Thursday to officially become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo.The Belgian-British 19-year-old landed her single-seat Shark ultralight aircraft to cheers and honking horns from ...

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 20 (ANI): Indonesia is embarking on a program to modernize its navy and build up a more effective deterrent to confront future incursions by Chinese ships into the 200-nautical-mile economic exclusion zone (EEZ) along its...

JAKARTA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia confirmed 2,116 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest single-day rise since Aug. 7 last year, amid the spread of the Omicron variant in the archipelago. The increase of infections has brought the total tal...

Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 20 (ANI): Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah says Beijing now speaks less of the 'nine-dash line' and more often of the 'Four Sha' and expressed doubts on China's changing claims in the strategic South-Chin...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 20 (ANI/BusinessWire India):This C funding brings the entire Series-C financing round to $62 million. "This strategic investment will fortify Zenlayer's position as the edge cloud provider of choice in Indonesia ...

© Provided by Xinhua Nusantara, which the new capital is called, will be built in two districts in East Kalimantan -- Penajam Paser Utara and Kutai Kartanegara. It is set to occupy about 256,000 hectares of land.Nusantara will

GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Jan. 19, 2022 - Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that Australia's Therapeutic Goods Adminis...

An Islamic militant who eluded capture for 18 years was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after an Indonesian court found him guilty of hiding information about the 2002 Bali bombings from authorities and harboring other suspects.Prosecuto...

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 19 (ANI): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted Seram, in Indonesia at 14.29 UTC on Wednesday, according to the US Geological Survey. "Prelim M5.5 Earthquake Seram, Indonesia Jan-19 14:29 UTC," tweeted US Geologica...

JAKARTA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- A convicted terrorist masterminding the deadly Bali bombings in 2002, Arif Sunarso, known as Zulkarnaen, was sentenced to 15-year-imprisonment on Wednesday by Indonesia's East Jakarta Court. The sentence is lower than a l...

JAKARTA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia confirmed 1,745 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day rise since Sept. 30 last year, amid the spread of the Omicron variant in the archipelago. With the increase, the country's tally of infecti...

JAKARTA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- A Bornean orangutan baby was born in the Lamandau Wildlife Reserve on Indonesia's second-largest island of Kalimantan, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry said on Wednesday. The baby, a female, was later named Mely. ...

Washington [US], January 19 (ANI): The filming of Julia Roberts and George Clooney's romantic comedy 'Ticket to Paradise' has been paused due to COVID-19 concerns. A source close to the Universal Pictures production confirmed to People magazine that ...

Melbourne [Australia], January 19 (ANI): India's Sania Mirza along with her Ukrainian partner Nadiia Kichenok suffered an opening-round loss in the women's doubles event of the ongoing Australian Open on Wednesday. Kaja Juvan and Tamara Zidansek of S...

JAKARTA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law on the relocation of the nation's capital to the island of Kalimantan, which the country shares borders with Malaysia and Brunei, from the most populated island of Java. The mo...

Melbourne [Australia], January 19 (ANI): India's Rohan Bopanna alongside Edouard Roger-Vasselin suffered an opening-round loss in the men's doubles event of the ongoing Australian Open on Wednesday. Playing at Court 5, the wild card entries, Treat Hu...

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 19 (ANI): Indonesia on Tuesday replaced sinking capital Jakarta with Nusantara, as Jakarta is prone to flooding amid climate change. The lawmakers approved the shift from Jakarta to Kalimantan -- a jungle-covered area on ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Tuesday asked his people to reduce mobility, avoid crowds and work from home whenever possible as the country is struggling with a possible third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered...

JAKARTA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- The administration of the Indonesia's capital here has called on all residents in the city to be more cautious amid predictions of a third wave of COVID-19 in the country in the coming weeks. The total number of confirmed...

Indonesia wants to create a 'smart metropolis? to attract ?global talent? and combat Jakarta's current urban problemsIndonesia's parliament has passed legislation paving the way for the nation's capital relocation from Jakarta to a forested patch of ...

Moscow [Russia], January 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The Indonesian House of Representatives formally passed legislation establishing the country's new capital of Nusantara in East Kalimantan province at its 13th plenary session on Monday, Indonesian magazine ...

The Indonesian parliament today passed a bill to move the capital from Jakarta to a forested area on the island of Borneo, DPA reported. The decision of the deputies paves the way for the construction of the new city.The law was approved by most poli...

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 ...