Indonesia Headlines
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 03:30:03 GMTMyanmar withdraws from AFF U23 due to COVID-19 complications
PHNOM PENH, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar Football Federation has withdrawn from the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U23 Championship 2022 in Cambodia due to COVID-19 complications, the AFF announced in a press release on Tuesday. As part of health...
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:06:11 GMTMyanmar Issue Hardens Divisions in ASEAN
Efforts by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to bring Myanmar back into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have cemented a split within the trade group between mainland authoritarian governments and democratic maritime powers, analysts said.Th...
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:55:07 GMTTYLOO's somebody retires from CS:GO play
TYLOO's HaoWen "somebody" Xu retired from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition on Tuesday.
somebody, 26, joined TYLOO in February 2015 and helped the organization to an appearance in the grand final at IEM Shanghai in 2018.
"As one of our c...
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:18:29 GMTIndonesia's foreign debt decreases in Q4 of 2021
JAKARTA, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's foreign debt fell 0.4 percent year on year to 415.1 billion U.S. dollars in the fourth quarter of 2021, after growing 3.8 percent year on year to 424.0 billion dollars in the previous quarter, the central bank...
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:18:28 GMTIndonesia reports 57,049 new COVID-19 cases, 134 more deaths
JAKARTA, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia confirmed 57,049 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, raising its tally of infections to 4,901,328, the country's health ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 13...
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:18:28 GMTIndonesia exports 1st locally-made SUVs to Australia
JAKARTA, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated on Tuesday the first shipment of Indonesian-made Toyota Fortuner cars to Australia. The exported sport utility vehicles (SUVs) were manufactured by PT Toyota Motor Manufacturin...
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:37:22 GMTFIBA Asia Cup 2022 Draw to Be Held on Friday
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The procedure for the FIBA Asia Cup 2022 Draw has been issued ahead for the event which will take place on Friday. - Sports news - Sixteen teams have qualified to play in FIBA Asia Cup 2022 with this being the first Asia Cup ever ...
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:55:01 GMTXinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1000 GMT, Feb. 15
SEOUL -- South Korea's presidential election campaigning officially kicked off on Tuesday for a 22-day run ahead of the election to be held on March 9. A total of 14 candidates are competing for the South Korean presidency of a single five-year term,...
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:05:01 GMTIndonesia posts trade balance surplus of 930 mln USD in January
JAKARTA, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's trade balance surplus in January 2022 was recorded at 930 million U.S. dollars, with an export value of 19.16 billion dollars and imports valued at 18.23 billion dollars, the Statistics Indonesia (BPS) has sai...
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:05:02 GMTXinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1615 GMT, Feb. 14
JAKARTA -- Finance ministers and central bank governors from G20 members will gather from Feb. 17 to 18 for their first meeting this year under the Indonesian presidency in Jakarta, despite a steady increase in daily COVID-19 cases. Perry Warjiyo, go...
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:30:01 GMTHost Cambodia beats Brunei 6-0 in AFF U23 Championship 2022
PHNOM PENH, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Host Cambodia on Monday night defeated Brunei 6-0 in its first match of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U23 Championship 2022. Held at the Morodok Techo National Stadium here and broadcast live on local Bayon TV ch...
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:05:25 GMT4 terrorist suspects arrested in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian police on Monday arrested four suspected terrorists in separate operations in the country's province of Central Java. The National Police's spokesman Ahmad Ramadhan said that these suspects were allegedly a...
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:44:02 GMTIndonesia reports 36,501 new COVID-19 cases, 145 more deaths
JAKARTA, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Monday confirmed 36,501 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,844,279, the country's Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 145...
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:04:10 GMTAFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw: Opening statement Budget Estimates
Statement made by AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee - Additional Estimates hearing - 14 February 2022We begin 2022 where we left off in 2021, seeing an ever increasing volume of federa...
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:36:47 GMTAsian Stocks Fall, Oil Prices Rise on Ukraine Invasion Fears
BEIJING - Asian stock markets fell Monday and oil prices rose amid concern about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.Tokyo's benchmark index fell by an unusually wide daily margin of 2.6%. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul also retreated.On Wall Stree...
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 04:30:19 GMTAsia Album: A jeep adventure to discover Mount Merapi in Indonesia
© Provided by Xinhua JAKARTA, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Wondering what to do in Indonesia? Try a jeep lava tour near Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta. It is a good way to get up close to the most active volcano in Indonesia.
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:18:42 GMTAFF U23 Championship 2022 ready to kick off in Cambodian capital
PHNOM PENH, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- The third edition of the 2022 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U23 Championship will kick off on Monday afternoon at the new Morodok Techo National Stadium in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, the AFF said in a press relea...
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:30:02 GMTXinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, Feb. 13
CANBERRA -- Thousands of Australians have gathered in the nation's capital to protest coronavirus vaccine mandates. Up to 10,000 people during the weekend took to the streets of Canberra to urge the federal, state and territory governments to immedia...
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:18:14 GMTIndonesia reports 44,526 newly-confirmed COVID-19 cases, 111 more deaths
JAKARTA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Sunday confirmed 44,526 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,807,778, the country's Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 111...
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 07:52:08 GMTMorrison's Migration Act is cruel and callous
The Migration Act has become a fest of discrimination, deteriorating rapidly under the Abbott and Morrison Governments.
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 06:05:01 GMTBeach ritual accident leaves 11 drowned in sea in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Eleven people were killed after being swept by tidal waves into the sea from the southern coast of Indonesia's East Java province on Sunday, said a local disaster management official. The accident occurred at about 00:25 ...
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 16:05:48 GMTXinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 12
ISTANBUL -- Turkey announced on Saturday new economic measures to ease the burden of Turkish citizens against the skyrocketing cost of living amid high inflation. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at an economic meeting in Istanbul via vide...
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 16:05:46 GMTIndonesia reports over 55,000 new COVID-19 cases
JAKARTA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Saturday confirmed 55,209 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,763,252, the country's Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 1...
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:52:12 GMTMorrison's Migration Act is cruel and compassionless
The Migration Act has become a fest of discrimination, deteriorating rapidly under the Abbott and Morrison Governments.
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 02:29:09 GMTYoung girl wins first medal for country in ISSF Shooting Grand Prix
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Bangladeshi girl shooter Nafisa Tabassum won the first medal for the country in the ISSF Shooting Grand Prix Friday in Jakarta, Indonesia, after capturing bronze in the 10m air rifles women's event.Nafisa won the medal after maki...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:27:30 GMTAmid Ukraine crisis, US participation in Quad meet underscores our commitment to stay in focus on Indo-Pacific: Blinken
Melbourne [Australia], February 11 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said even as the US continues to work relentlessly to resolve the Ukraine crisis, its participation in the 4th Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Melbourne underscores Was...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:44:28 GMTIndonesia reports 40,489 newly COVID-19 cases, 100 more deaths
JAKARTA, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Friday confirmed 40,489 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,708,043, the country's health ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 100...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:55:37 GMTStrong Quad will deliver benefits to people in the region: Blinken
Melbourne [Australia], February 11 (ANI): Noting that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) has been and always will be an affirmative partnership, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday said that the stronger the Quad gets more mutual b...
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:15:48 GMTUS greenlights sale of F-15 jets to Asian nation
The US State Department has said that aiding Indonesia's security efforts is ?vital? to America's national interestsJakarta has asked to buy up to 36 F-15ID fighter jets as well as aircraft engines and related equipment, including munitions and commu...
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:36:08 GMTAbu Dhabi Fund for Development, Indonesian Ambassador discuss potential strategic investment opportunities
ABU DHABI, 9th February, 2022 (WAM) -- Mohammed Saif Al-Suwaidi, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, received Husin Bagis,...
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 02:16:07 GMTAustralia Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Grants Provisional Registration for Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine
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...