Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it plans to put its Boeing's 737 Max back to service for the first time since the aircraft model was involved in a crash that claimed 157 lives three years ago. Chrystal Zhang has studied the business models of a...

Panel releases findings of historical review into actions of the Netherlands during the Asian nation's war of independenceA historical review has found that the Dutch military "used extreme violence" condoned by the government during the Indonesian s...

JAKARTA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia has registered more than 5 million cases of COVID-19 since the first case was confirmed in the country in March, 2020. On Thursday, the country's health ministry reported that the coronavirus cases across the ar...

JAKARTA -- All the G20 member countries should proactively react in addressing climate change, Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said Thursday, warning that the issue poses a greater threat than the COVID-19 pandemic. The minister co...

JAKARTA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced House of Representatives' former deputy speaker Azis Syamsuddin to 3.5 years in jail for his involvement in a bribery case. Syamsuddin, a senior politician of the Golkar Party, wa...

Central bank taking steps to boost local currency settlements with neighboring nationsThe Chinese government is planning to work with other Asian nations to strengthen the use of local currencies in trade and investment as part of a broader plan to b...

JAKARTA, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia will promote the use of local currency settlement (LCS) in cross-border trade and investment, as an effort to reduce dependency on the U.S. dollar, the country's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said Wedne...

PHNOM PENH -- Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son tested positive for COVID-19 upon his arrival in Cambodia on Wednesday afternoon, Cambodia's Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said. Son visited Cambodia for the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat, wh...

JAKARTA, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Group of 20 (G20) second Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBD) meeting held here on Feb. 15-16 produced a communique draft containing a long-term economic recovery strategy for better prevention, preparedness and r...

JAKARTA, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Wednesday confirmed 64,718 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,966,046, the country's Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by ...

JAKARTA, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan worth 150 million U.S. dollars to support a facility that can accelerate Indonesia's economic recovery, local media reported Wednesday. The facility, the Sustainable De...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

© 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.

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...

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...

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...

The Migration Act has become a fest of discrimination, deteriorating rapidly under the Abbott and Morrison Governments.

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 ...

ABU DHABI, 9th February, 2022 (WAM) -- Mohammed Saif Al-Suwaidi, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, received Husin Bagis,...

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...