Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 21 (ANI): Actor and environmentalist Juhi Chawla took to social media to pen a loving birthday wish for her daughter, Jahnavi Mehta, who turned 21 on Monday. The actor posted a beautiful picture of her and her d...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Timor-Leste beat host Cambodia 1-0 on Sunday to win Group A in the final group fixture of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U23 Championship 2022. With the Philippines edging Brunei 2-1 in an inconsequent tie of the ...

Myanmar's military government has criticized calls for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' special envoy to the conflict-torn country to meet bodies that oppose last year's coup, which the junta has declared as "terrorist" groups.With little ...

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JAKARTA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Sunday confirmed 48,484 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total tally to 5,197,505, the Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 has risen by 163 to 146,365, while the total...

Countries with some of the strictest border policies in the world are announcing reopening plans days after global Covid infections reached an all-time high.

Shravasti (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 20 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Sunday said that nations like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Indonesia do not have Triple Talaq but our secular natio...

Shravasti (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 20 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Sunday said that nations like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Indonesia do not have Triple Talaq but our secular natio...

The yuan ranks as the world's fourth most popular currency in cross-border paymentsChina's national currency, the yuan, retained its position as the fourth most actively used currency for global transactions in January, according to data from the Soc...

Beijing [China], February 20 (ANI): China is trying to stoke political instability in the Maldives, an archipelago country that is already hugely indebted to China, with an aim to gain dominance in the Indian Ocean region. China's Foreign Minister Wa...

washington - A major initiative to strengthen and cement America's ties with Asia and counterbalance China's expanding influence lacks robust trade incentives that are viewed as politically perilous in the United States, where protectionist sentiment...

Munich [Germany], February 20 (ANI): Reaffirming strong diplomatic relations with ASEAN nations, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Saturday dismissed a recent poll that suggested that trust of the southeast Asian bloc had decreased in I...

HONG KONG -- A delegation of mainland epidemiologists on Saturday continued visiting anti-COVID-19 institutions and facilities in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and learned about the environmental investigation carried out by th...

JAKARTA, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia confirmed 59,384 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, raising its tally of infections to 5,149,021, the country's health ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 1...

Bangkok - An annual joint military exercise between the United States and Thailand will kick off on Sunday on a reduced scale compared to pre-pandemic times, with traditional war games absent from a two-week program of largely humanitarian training d...

New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the government will draft policies to ensure that no hindrance comes in the path of the emerging new drone market in the country. The Prime minister flagged off 10...

JAKARTA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Finance leaders from the Group of 20 (G20) agreed on realizing a well calibrated, well planned, well communicated normalization in the monetary policy to minimize the impacts of the Fed's raising interest rates. The conse...

HONG KONG -- The election for the chief executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), originally scheduled for March 27, will be postponed to May 8 due to the COVID-19 epidemic, HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam said here on Fr...

JAKARTA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Group of 20 (G20) meeting's host country Indonesia has urged finance leaders from the world's 20 top economies to push the issue of green bonds as part of a sustainable finance instrument to fight climate change. Bank...

JAKARTA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Friday confirmed 59,635 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 5,089,637, the country's Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 216...

JAKARTA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The groups were confirmed for FIBA Asia Cup 2022 at the draw which was held here on Friday. The 16 participating teams were drawn into four groups of four teams each in the FIBA Asia Cup which will take place in Jakarta, ...

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...

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