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Fri, 12 Aug 2022 01:55:31 GMT
Asia Album: 2022 GAIKINDO Indonesia International Auto Show
© Provided by Xinhua TANGERANG, Indonesia, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Opening here on Thursday, the 2022 GAIKINDO Indonesia International Auto Show will last until Aug. 21. The auto show emphasizes technologies, launches, and brands of the automotive indus...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 01:13:14 GMT
Fixing Jakarta's commuter pollution problem
The Indonesian capital's air quality is already bad. Emissions from vehicles commuting from its fringes worsens the situation. Jakarta is well known for its smog. A large urban city with over 10 million people, health costs due to air pollution in J...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:18:02 GMT
Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, Aug. 11
KUALA LUMPUR -- Market analysts at the CGS-CIMB Research in Malaysia on Thursday predicted crude palm oil (CPO) prices would weaken in the near term due to stiffer competition from the Indonesian palm oil. The CGS-CIMB Research said in a note that th...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:05:03 GMT
China's Chery showcases TIGGO series at automotive exhibition in Indonesia
TANGERANG, Indonesia, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese automotive brand Chery is showcasing five premium and luxury cars at the 2022 Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show held from Aug. 11 to 21 at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition in BSD City. The...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:05:02 GMT
Indonesia intensifies search for largest corruption suspect in history
JAKARTA, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian authorities said Thursday that they had intensified a search for the owner of palm oil corporation PT Duta Palma Group, Surya Darmadi, a suspect in an alleged corruption scandal estimated to have caused sta...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:55:01 GMT
Indonesia plans to plant 1 mln dwarf coconut trees
JAKARTA, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia is planning to plant 1 million dwarf coconut trees across the archipelago country, President Joko Widodo said on Thursday during a visit to Central Java province. The president, also known as Jokowi, visited two...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 11:38:44 GMT
Tesla to buy $5 billion of Indonesian minerals for batteries
JAKARTA, Indonesia: A senior cabinet minister in Indonesia has told CNBC Indonesia that U.S. carmaker Tesla has signed contracts worth some $5 billion to purchase minerals for electric batteries from nickel processing companies in the country.Indones...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 11:32:42 GMT
Diplomat Anarkali's arrest in Indonesia: Dhaka demands details from Jakarta
DHAKA, Bangladesh - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it would take strict action against diplomat Kazi Anarkali over the alleged possession of narcotics at her home in Indonesia.Representatives of the Foreign Ministry remarked in a Wednesday parl...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 11:05:01 GMT
98.5 pct of Indonesians have COVID-19 antibodies as of July: serosurvey
JAKARTA, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- A very high portion of Indonesians have antibodies to deal with the COVID-19 transmission, according to a serological survey conducted by the country's health ministry and the Faculty of Public Health of the University of...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:30:02 GMT
Foxconn to develop EV industry in Indonesia this year: minister
JAKARTA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said Wednesday that China's Taiwan region's tech giant Hon Hai Precision Industry, widely known as Foxconn, had signed a deal with the government and a domestic private com...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:05:23 GMT
Indonesia targets zero new foot-and-mouth cases by yearend
JAKARTA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia is targeting zero new cases of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) by the end of this year as vaccination has reached more livestock, government spokesperson for FMD handing Wiku Adisasmito said here Wednesday. "The nu...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:49:02 GMT
Chinese shuttlers gear up for BWF World Championships after draw
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced the draws for the 2022 World Badminton Championships on Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 2022 championships, to be held on August 22 in Tokyo, will feature five ...

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:05:15 GMT
Indonesia cuts reference price threshold for CPO export tax
JAKARTA, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Starting Tuesday, Indonesia lowered the reference threshold for crude palm oil (CPO) export tax to 680 U.S. dollars per ton from 750 dollars per ton, according to the Finance Ministry. Under the new policy, CPO export and ...

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:05:15 GMT
Indonesia opts for wheat alternative to address food security
JAKARTA, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia is preparing for alternatives to replace wheat whose supply chain has been disrupted by conflicts in Ukraine, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday. Ismail Wahab, cereal director at the directorate general of ...

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:05:14 GMT
Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, Aug. 9
MANILA -- The major Philippine economic indicators showed continued momentum of growth in June, with the total external trade in goods rising by 16.1 percent and the manufacturing production index growing steadily, the Philippine Statistics Authority...

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:37:26 GMT
Iran Comes 4th at Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran's men's team finished in fourth place at the Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy in Jakarta, Indonesia. - Sports news - The Singapore women's and men's 7s teams were crowned Asia Rugby Sevens Trophy champions.The Asia Rugby Sevens Troph...

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:30:01 GMT
Aussie state spends millions to stop foot-and-mouth disease in tracks
SYDNEY, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Australia's biggest cattle-producing state, Queensland, will recruit a squad of biosecurity officers to boost its frontline defences against outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), lumpy skin disease (LSD) and African sw...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:05:34 GMT
Chinese carmaker launches electric car in Indonesia
BEKASI, Indonesia, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW), a major Chinese automobile manufacturer, through its local unit SGMW Motor Indonesia (Wuling), on Monday launched here its production of the electric vehicle in Indonesia, named Wuling Air ...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:05:33 GMT
Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, Aug. 8
SINGAPORE -- Singapore reported 3,541 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total tally to 1,763,116. Of the new cases, 348 cases were detected through PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests and 3,193 through ART (antigen rapid test) tests, ac...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:30:01 GMT
Pickup van plunges into ravine in Indonesia, leaving 8 dead
JAKARTA, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- A pickup van plunged into a 30-meter-deep ravine in the Indonesian province of West Java on Monday morning, killing eight people and injuring nine others, local police said. The tragic accident took place in Cibeureum vill...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 01:55:13 GMT
Over USD 2.7 billion infrastructure projects in India, Asia listed on new Singapore Online Portal
By Lee Kah WhyeSingapore, August 8 (ANI): Last week, an infrastructure project online portal that connects government, developers, and financiers was launched by Infrastructure Asia, a platform set up by Enterprise Singapore and Singapore's Central B...

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 19:35:43 GMT
AI a jolt of energy for Indonesian medical research
Indonesia's growth as a medical research hub will only go as far as its capacity to power its public health facilities. AI could speed up the process. The numbers don't lie: Indonesia's public health and medical research is in need of help. On the H...

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 19:35:23 GMT
Machine learning to help predict future dengue fever outbreaks
Indonesia's dengue fever outbreaks are increasingly frequent. Artificial Intelligence can help to predict where the next hotspot will be. With 390 million dengue virus infections a year, researchers need all the help they can get in tracking infecti...

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 19:34:54 GMT
AI shows its worth in making sense of online health
Natural language processing is an emerging, complex form of analysis. But a study from Indonesia showed computers can draw sense from doctors' chats. An Indonesian analysis of doctors' chat records in online health forums has revealed that some kind...

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 18:13:39 GMT
UK waged 'dirty' propaganda operation in Africa Guardian
Secretive British ?dirty tricks? unit smeared Kenya's leftist vice president during the Cold War, The Guardian reportedA covert unit within the British Foreign Office targeted Kenya's first vice president, Oginga Odinga, in the 1960s as part of a "bl...

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 13:13:47 GMT
UK waged 'dirty' propaganda operation in Africa - Guardian
Secretive British ?dirty tricks? unit smeared Kenya's leftist vice president during the Cold War, The Guardian reportedA covert unit within the British Foreign Office targeted Kenya's first vice president, Oginga Odinga, in the 1960s as part of a "bl...

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 12:18:01 GMT
Cambodia bags 28 medals at 11th ASEAN Para Games in Indonesia
PHNOM PENH, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia won a total of 28 medals at the just-concluded 11th ASEAN Para Games in Solo city, Indonesia, a senior official said here on Sunday. Defense Minister Gen. Tea Banh, who is the president of the Cambodian SEA Gam...

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 12:14:01 GMT
UK waged African dirty propaganda operation - media
During the Cold War, Britain's secretive ?dirty tricks? unit smeared Kenya's leftist vice president, The Guardian reportedA covert unit within the British Foreign Office targeted Kenya's first vice president, Oginga Odinga, in the 1960s as part of a ...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 23:23:07 GMT
Indonesian VP receives a delegation from Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace
JAKARTA, 29th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Indonesian Vice President Ma'ruf Amin received Al-Mahfouz bin Bayyah, Secretary General of the Abu Dhabi For...

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:44:27 GMT
Vietnamese team arrives in Indonesia for ASEAN Para Games 11
JAKARTA, 27th July, 2022 (WAM) -- The Vietnamese sport team arrived in Surakarta, the Indonesian province of Central Java, on Tuesday evening...

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 11:34:41 GMT
Torch relay begins for 2022 ASEAN Para Games in Indonesia
Grobogan, Indonesia, 23th July, 2022 (WAM/ANTARA) -- The 2022 ASEAN Para Games torch began today its journey on a relay course after its flam...

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:00:07 GMT
Positive results for Mubadala Petroleum's Andaman acreage following exploration drilling campaign in Indonesia
ABU DHABI, 13th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Mubadala Petroleum, the Abu Dhabi headquartered international energy company, today announced that the dri...

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:14:49 GMT
Abdullah bin Zayed participates in G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting, reiterates UAE's support of Indonesia's efforts
BALI, 8th July, 2022 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, partici...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:26:46 GMT
Abdullah bin Zayed meets Indian Minister of External Affairs in Indonesia on sidelines of 2022 G20 Bali
BALI, 7th July, 2022 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met with Su...

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:21:50 GMT
Abdullah bin Zayed, Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister meet on sidelines of G20 meetings
BALI, 6th July, 2022 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met with Re...

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 15:27:45 GMT
CEPA agreements with India, Israel, Indonesia to achieve national economy's growth by 2.6% by 2030: Thani Al Zeyoudi
ABU DHABI, 4th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, said the comprehensive economic partne...

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:36:54 GMT
UAE President, Indonesian President witness signing of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
ABU DHABI, 1st July, 2022 (WAM) -- President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan witnessed the signing of the UAE-Indonesia Compre...

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:21:46 GMT
CEPA with UAE to bring economic prosperity to Indonesian SMEs, common people: Indonesian envoy
By Binsal Abdulkader ABU DHABI, 1st July, 2022 (WAM) -- The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) signed between Indonesia and t...

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:21:46 GMT
CEPA with UAE to bring economic prosperity to Indonesian SMEs, common people: Envoy
By Binsal Abdulkader ABU DHABI, 1st July, 2022 (WAM) -- The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) signed between Indonesia and...

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 18:14:35 GMT
UAE President receives Indonesian President
ABU DHABI, 1st July, 2022 (WAM) -- President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today received Joko Widodo, President of Indonesi...

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:26:44 GMT
UAE President, Indonesian President perform Jumuah Prayer at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
ABU DHABI, 1st July, 2022 (WAM) -- President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Joko Widodo, President of Indonesia, performe...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 22:38:29 GMT
UAE president receives Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs
ABU DHABI, 16th June, 2022 (WAM) -- President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today received the Coordinating Minister for Mari...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:50:02 GMT
UAE Minister of State for Defence Affairs receives Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs of Indonesia
ABU DHABI, 16th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi, Minister of State for Defence Affairs, has received General Luhut Binsar Pa...



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