TALUQAN, Afghanistan -- Forty-two people have fallen ill from mass food poisoning in Afghanistan's northern province of Takhar, local police said on Monday. The incident occurred during a wedding ceremony in Takhan Abad village of Chah Hab district o...

JAKARTA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen people were killed and 16 others injured in a bus crash in East Java province of western Indonesia on Monday, a doctor and an official said. The incident took place at a toll road in Mojokerto district on Monday mo...

Jakarta [Indonesia], May 16 (ANI/PRNewswire): In light of the readiness to welcome back international travellers, Wonderful Indonesia will proudly present some of the country's best destination highlights and new experiences at South Asia's Travel an...

MOGADISHU -- Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was re-elected as the tenth President of Somalia, defeating incumbent President Mohamed Farmajo in the third round of vote held in the capital, Mogadishu on Sunday. The 67-year-old Mohamud, w...

London for decades sought to drive a wedge between Moscow, Beijing, the Arab world and Africa through fake news, a researcher claimsA secretive unit within the British Foreign Office waged a "black propaganda" campaign against the USSR and China from...

Washington [US], May 16 (ANI): US State Secretary Antony Blinken during the US-ASEAN Special Summit met with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi where he highlighted the importance of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, women's rights in Afghan...

Jakarta [Indonesia], May 15 (ANI/Xinhua): One person was killed and five others wounded as an oil refinery operated by an Indonesian state-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina caught fire in Balikpapan town of East Kalimantan province on Sunday, a res...

By Vivek Prabhakar SinghBengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 15 (ANI): Former India shuttler Trupti Murgunde has lauded the achievement of Indian team which won their maiden Thomas Cup title in Bangkok on Sunday. The 2006 Commonwealth Games bronze meda...

JAKARTA, May 15 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and five others wounded as an oil refinery operated by an Indonesian state-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina caught fire in Balikpapan town of East Kalimantan province on Sunday, a rescuer said. The...

JAKARTA -- One person was killed and five others were wounded as an oil refinery operated by Indonesian state owned oil-and-gas firm PT Pertamina caught fire in Balikpapan town of East Kalimantan province on Sunday, a rescuer said. The accident occur...

ISLAMABAD -- Four people were killed and two others injured on Sunday in a firing between two rival groups in Buner district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local media reported. According to the reports, the incident took place ...

New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held a special interaction via phone with the Indian badminton team which made history in Thailand by winning its maiden Thomas Cup trophy. On the call, the Prime Minister remark...

Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 15 (ANI): Hailing the Indian men's badminton team for defeating 14-time champions Indonesia, Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan congratulated the Indian team for their historical maiden Thomas Cup...

Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 15 (ANI): After the Indian men's badminton team on Sunday scripted history after lifting the Thomas Cup title, Kidambi Srikanth's father lauded the team and called it a great achievement for India. Indian badminto...

New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Praising the Indian men's badminton team for defeating 14-time champions Indonesia on Sunday, the Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur announced Rs 1 crore cash award for the team for winning the ...

New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): After registering the historic win in Thomas Cup on Sunday, winners Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Chirag Shetty and others thanked PM Narendra Modi for 'motivating and encouraging them to do better.'Follo...

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 15 (ANI): There is an atmosphere of happiness and pride back at the residence of badminton player Lakshya Sen, who is the part of the Indian team that clinched its first-ever Thomas Cup trophy in Thailand on Sunday....

New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Indian men's badminton team created history when they upset 14-time champions and holders Indonesia 3-0 to clinch their first ever Thomas Cup title in Bangkok on Sunday. The underdogs, who had not reached the last fou...

JAKARTA, May 15 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and five others were wounded as an oil refinery operated by Indonesian state owned oil-and-gas firm PT Pertamina caught fire in Balikpapan town of East Kalimantan province on Sunday, a rescuer said. T...

By Vivek Prabhakar SinghNew Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Former Asian badminton champion Dinesh Khanna on Sunday congratulated the Indian badminton team for winning its first-ever Thomas Cup trophy, saying that it is like India's first-ever triumph i...

New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Sports fraternity on Sunday sent words of praise and extended congratulations to the Indian badminton team for winning the first-ever Thomas Cup trophy in Thailand. Indian badminton team created history on Sunday as t...

New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday congratulated the Indian badminton team which made history by clinching the Thomas Cup trophy for the first time in Thailand. "India clinched the Thomas Cup. A momentous day for...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 15 (ANI): As the Indian men's badminton team scripted history in the Thomas Uber Cup 2022 by defeating 14-time Champions Indonesia in Bangkok on Sunday, actor Taapsee Pannu took to Twitter to hail the historic win. "...

New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Hailing the Indian men's badminton team for defeating 14-time champions Indonesia, Anurag Thakur, the Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports on Sunday announced Rs one crore cash award for the team for winning th...

NEW DELHI, May 15 (Xinhua) -- India sprang into a celebratory mood on Sunday after the country's shuttlers won the Thomas Cup badminton tournament for the first time, convincingly defeating 14-time champions Indonesia 3-0 in the final in Bangkok. Lak...

BANGKOK, May 15 (Xinhua) -- India's men's badminton team made history on Sunday, winning Thomas Cup for the first time by sweeping defending champions Indonesia 3-0 in dominant fashion. India's first singles shuttler Lakshya Sen set the tone for the ...

New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday extended his congratulations to the Indian badminton team which won the Thomas Cup trophy for the first time in Thailand. "The Indian badminton team has scripted history! The ent...

Bangkok [Thailand], May 15 (ANI): Indian badminton team created history on Sunday as they lifted the Thomas Cup trophy for the very first time. In what was India's first-ever appearance in the tournament finale, they defeated the record 14-time champ...

ISLAMABAD, May 15 (Xinhua) -- In the just-concluded U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit, U.S. President Joe Biden said that "the ASEAN centrality is the very heart of my administration's strategy in pursuing the future we all want to see. And I mean that since...

by Dames Alexander Sinaga JAKARTA, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia is coping with the re-emergence of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) which spreads among cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep, pigs and goats. During the past weeks, thousands of c...

India banned wheat exports without government approval Saturday after its hottest March on record hit production, in a blow to countries reeling from supply shortages and soaring prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.The announcement drew sharp c...

Kabul [Afghanistan], May 14 (ANI): Grabbing of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan may have brought a sense of gratification to the powerful army-intelligence nexus of Pakistan but it has created rippling effects for which Islamabad might be ill-prep...

Bangkok [Thailand], May 14 (ANI): HS Prannoy, who emerged as the hero of India's historic victory in the semi-finals on Friday despite getting injured during the match, said that winning against Denmark was big as they have three top-ranking players ...

Here's the latest Chinese sports headlines over the past week:1. China edged by S. Korea in Uber Cup final, suffers quarterfinal exit at Thomas CupChina's women's badminton team was edged by South Korea 3-2 in an epic final that lasted seven hours on...

Chinese belligerence forcing Southeast Asian countries to explore security alliancesBeijing [China], May 14 (ANI): China's belligerent attitude in the Indo-Pacific including an uptick in Chinese naval activity and its ongoing militarization of the So...

Washington [US], May 14 (ANI): South-East Asia suddenly became the power theatre of the East as the United States steps up to leave the rivalry with China behind in wooing the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). US President Joe Biden con...

JAKARTA, 14th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo has mourned the death of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. "I...

BANGKOK, May 14 (Xinhua) -- India's men's badminton team made history by defeating Denmark 3-2 in the Thomas Cup semifinals here on Friday and will vie for the trophy against the reigning champions Indonesia. Although India's first singles Lakshya Se...

WHITE HOUSE - Despite U.S. President Joe Biden's urging that Southeast Asian countries take a firmer stance on the Ukraine war, the U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit ended Friday without condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a sign of the geopolitica...

© Provided by Xinhua JAKARTA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- A digital art exhibition themed "Saving the Future of Our Water Resource" was showcased in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.

Bangkok [Thailand], May 13 (ANI): Indian men's badminton team scripted history on Friday as they triumphed over Denmark in a hard-fought semi-final to make it to the finals of the prestigious Thomas Cup for the first time ever. The thrilling battle a...

© Provided by Xinhua *The U.S. administration has long taken pleasure in organizing destructive meetings under the guise of constructive engagements. *The so-called "Indo-Pacific Strategy" it is selling at this s

New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): The 7th roundtable of the ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks (AINTT) was organized in hybrid mode on May 12-13, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday. The meeting was organised by MEA in collaboration ...

JAKARTA, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia has been monitoring the increase in COVID-19 cases after this year's Eid al-Fitr holiday, when a massive exodus occurred. During the holiday, urban people leave big cities where they work to return to their homet...

© Provided by Xinhua Analysts believe that U.S. attempts to court support among ASEAN leaders in pursuit of its geopolitical interests are unlikely to gain traction.KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden is meeting

Deception, exploitation and cover-up are messages Australia is sending to our foreign neighbours, writes Dr Kyle Mervin.IT IS AN UNFORTUNATE truth that it is sometimes necessary for a government to conduct its business in secret. That necessity is bo...

KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden is meeting with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Washington this week, in a move widely seen as an attempt by the United States to pull members of t...

World leaders pledged more than $3 billion on Thursday for the global fight against the pandemic, as the United States marked a grim point in its own COVID-19 battle - and without the billions of dollars in emergency funding Biden has sought from Con...

JAKARTA, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia has alerted its public on the dangers of severe acute hepatitis following the deaths of three children from a mysterious liver disease last month.The three children, aged two, eight and eleven, died in a hospital...

BANGKOK, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese men's badminton team suffered a disheartening 3-0 defeat against defending champions Indonesia at the Thomas Cup quarterfinals here on Thursday, which tied China's previous worst result at the tournament. In a repe...

White House - The Biden administration and ASEAN leaders have agreed to put out an empty chair to represent Myanmar's overthrown civilian government during the two-day U.S.-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Special Summit that President ...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday appealed to world leaders to step up efforts to respond to the next phase in the global pandemic, as the United States itself reaches a grim COVID-19 point - without the billions of dollars in emergency funding Bi...

The Russian blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports risks causing a global food crisis, given that Ukraine is one of the world's top agricultural exporters. Analysts say this shows how Russia is weaponising food in its geopolitical games - but it's a w...

Jakarta [Indonesia], May 12 (ANI/PRNewswire): Entering 2022, Indonesian insurtech startupThe company distributes retail insurance products to consumers for car, bike, home, and health through its omnichannel platform. Based in Indonesia, the platform...

New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the second Global COVID Virtual Summit on Thursday at the invitation of US President Joe Biden. The summit intends to galvanize new actions to address the continued cha...

BANGKOK, May 12 (Xinhua) -- China's men's badminton team fell short of expectations in an epic Thomas Cup battle against Denmark here on Thursday, which lasted more than six hours and ended past 3 a.m. local time. The 3-2 result in favor of Denmark ...

BANGKOK, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Defending champions China are set to face Indonesia in the Uber Cup quarterfinals, according to the draw made here after the group matches on Wednesday. China achieved a perfect record in all three group matches to become ...

Bhubaneswar (Odisha), May 11 (ANI): The duo of Dular Marandi and Ranjita Devi are two women who dream of making it to the national side on the back of their strong performances for SSB FC in the Indian Women's League. Having netted five goals for her...

New Delhi [India] May 11 (ANI/ATK): Asian-African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AACCI) organized the prestigious 4th Asian African Leadership Forum 2022 in New Delhi on Sunday, 24th April at India International Centre which consisted of a grand s...

New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the Second Global COVID Virtual Summit on May 12 at the invitation of US President Joe Biden. The Summit intends to galvanize new actions to address the continued chall...

ABU DHABI, 4th May, 2022 (WAM) -- His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of t...

DUBAI, 25th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), the UAE Federal export credit company, and its Indonesian counterpart PT Reasu...

April 14, 2022 - Hanoi, Vietnam - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded a successful visit to Indonesia and Vietnam. The visit focused on deepening our countries' already strong relation...

April 14, 2022 - Hanoi, Vietnam - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded a successful visit to Indonesia and Vietnam. The visit focused on deepening our countries' already strong relation...

April 11, 2022 - Jakarta, Indonesia - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today, met with Retno Marsudi, Indonesia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Jakarta. During her visit to Indonesia, Minister J...

April 9, 2022 - Brussels, Belgium - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that she will be travelling to Indonesia and Vietnam from April 9 to 14. While visiting these two strategic pa...

DUBAI, 29th March, 2022 (WAM) -- The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has participated in the panel discussion held by the Indonesian government und...

JAKARTA, 23rd March, 2022 (WAM) -- Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Head of the Emirati Parliamentary Division Delegation at the Inter-Parliamentary ...

JAKARTA, 23rd March, 2022 (WAM) -- The Indonesian government has extended the visa on arrival (VoA) programme to cover international travelers...

BALI, 21st March, 2022 (WAM) -- Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Head of the Emirati Parliamentary Division Delegation at the Inter-Parliamentary Uni...

ABU DHABI, 17th March, 2022 (WAM) -- His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander o...