© Provided by Xinhua Cai Tao and Hu Chun, the two giant pandas that have been living in Indonesia's Taman Safari park since 2017 are heating up the celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year of the Tiger.by Wang Aona, Hayati Nupus

by Wang Aona, Hayati Nupus JAKARTA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- A male panda called Cai Tao is chewing bamboo sticks, and sometimes climbs up a tree or rolls in the grass, while the female panda Hu Chun goes back and forth picking up carrots at the Panda Pal...

JAKARTA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Wednesday confirmed 7,010 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise since Sept. 8, 2021, amid the spread of the Omicron variant in the archipelago. With the increase, the country's tally of infections r...

Washington [US], January 26 (ANI): A book describing the "transformation" of Uttar Pradesh under Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath is evoking curiosity among the diaspora in the United States, its author Shantanu Gupta has said. Shantanu Gupta, who start...

Brawl between rival gangs in Indonesia ended with victims trappedA deadly rivalry between two gangs in West Papua's Sorong City ended with one person stabbed to death and 18 more trapped in a fire after a fight broke out in the Double O club on Monda...

PHNOM PENH - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday confirmed he had invited Myanmar's junta chief to a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on the condition he makes progress on a peace plan he agreed to last year.Hun S...

JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo and visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong signed agreements Tuesday on economy, travel bubbles and the extradition of fugitives. At a press conference with Lee after their meeting in Bintan ci...

JAKARTA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo and visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong signed agreements Tuesday on economy, travel bubbles and the extradition of fugitives. At a press conference with Lee after their me...

JAKARTA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Tuesday confirmed 4,878 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise since Sept. 12, 2021, amid the spread of the Omicron variant in the archipelago. With the increase, the country's tally of infections ro...

SEOUL -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired two unidentified missiles, believed to be cruise missiles, into the East Sea, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday citing unnamed military sources. The South Korean military...

Jakarta [Indonesia], January 25 (ANI): At least 19 people were found dead in a nightclub, which caught fire, after a clash between two community groups in Indonesia's West Papua province, Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday. Quoting a Provincial P...

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Provincial-level regions across China have hosted their annual legislative and political consultative meetings in recent weeks, underlining sci-tech innovation, common prosperity, further opening up ...

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Provincial-level regions across China have hosted their annual legislative and political consultative meetings in recent weeks, underlining sci-tech innovation, common prosperity, further opening up and green development,...

Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 24 (ANI): Thailand bounced back from their opening day defeat to secure a 4-0 win over Indonesia in Group B of the AFC Women's Asian Cup India 2022 at the D.Y. Patil Stadium on Monday. Kanyanat Chetthabut st...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday met with visiting Sri Lankan Minister of Trade Bandula Gunawardena to discuss bilateral and economic relations, the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan said. During the meeting, the Paki...

JAKARTA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Monday confirmed 2,927 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country's tally of infections to 4,289,305, according to the country's health ministry. The ministry's senior official Siti Nadia Tarmizi reported on Mond...

JAKARTA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia has allowed quarantine-free cross-border travel between Singapore and the two Indonesian cities of Batam and Bintan, with an aim to revive the tourism sector in both areas, an official said on Monday. "The gover...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 24 (ANI): Australia maintained the top spot in Group B with a 4-0 win over the Philippines in the ongoing AFC Women's Asian Cup India 2022 at Mumbai Football Arena on Monday. The Matildas took 51 minutes to break...

JAKARTA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia, the world's largest crude palm oil (CPO) producer and exporter, started on Monday the implementation of a stricter rule for CPO exports as an attempt to control a surge in domestic cooking oil prices. Under the...

A pair of migrant workers in Taiwan were slapped with a hefty fine for sneaking out to buy snacksA pair of Indonesian fishermen have been fined NT$100,000 (US$3,610) each by Taiwanese health authorities for leaving their quarantine hotel rooms for ju...

By Lee Kah WhyeSingapore, January 24 (ANI): In reporting its latest operating data, Singapore Airlines (SIA), co-owner of Gurgaon-based Vistara airlines, revealed that it carried 600,000 passengers in December, nearly doubled the number of passengers...

JAKARTA -- Indonesia on Sunday confirmed 2,925 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country's tally of infections to 4,286,378, according to the country's Health Ministry. The ministry said that in the past 24 hours, the death toll from COVID-19 in Indone...

JAKARTA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Sunday confirmed 2,925 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country's tally of infections to 4,286,378, according to the country's Health Ministry. The ministry said that in the past 24 hours, the death toll from ...

Every day, Aiden Lee joins the hundreds of thousands of people getting around Taipei on two wheels.But when most of his fellow riders head to a petrol pump to refuel, he takes his e-motorbike to one of Taiwan's increasingly commonplace battery-swappi...

© Provided by Xinhua by Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Wang AonaJAKARTA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Ahmad Faisal is a volunteer with the Harimau Kita (Our Tiger) Forum, a non-profit organization working to protect the Sumatran tiger in Indone

JAKARTA, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's Ministry of Health confirmed the first two deaths from the Omicron coronavirus variant on Saturday amid a spike in cases triggered by the more infectious virus. The ministry's spokesperson Siti Nadia Tarmizi s...

HERAT, Afghanistan -- At least seven civilians, including four women, were killed and nine others wounded when a bomb blast hit a minibus in Herat city, capital of Afghanistan's western Herat province, on Saturday, a provincial official said. (Afghan...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 22 (ANI): Navdeep Kaur, who won the Costume Round at the Mrs World 2022 competition held in Nevada, Las Vegas, recently spoke about her experience of winning the honour and urged people not to lose their individu...

JAKARTA, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Saturday confirmed 3,205 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise since Sept. 22, 2021, amid the spread of the Omicron variant in the archipelagic country. With the increase, the country's tally of inf...

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...