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Sat, 19 Feb 2022 05:03:19 GMT
PM Modi assures support for emerging drone market in India
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...

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:55:01 GMT
G20 members agree to minimize impacts of Fed's raising interest rates
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...

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:18:01 GMT
Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, Feb. 18
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...

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:05:25 GMT
G20 economies urged to push green bonds to fight climate change
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...

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 12:55:02 GMT
Indonesia reports 59,635 new COVID-19 cases, 216 more deaths
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...

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:49:01 GMT
Draw results confirmed for the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup
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, ...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:41:08 GMT
Ethiopian Airlines is flying 737 Max again: here are the lessons learnt
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...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:13:43 GMT
Dutch military used extreme, widespread violence in Indonesia report
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...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:49:01 GMT
Indonesia's COVID-19 cases top 5 mln amid Omicron spread
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...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:44:01 GMT
Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1000 GMT, Feb. 17
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...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:44:01 GMT
Indonesia's ex-House deputy speaker gets 3.5 years in prison for graft
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...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:13:22 GMT
China dumping US dollar in trade & investment in Asia
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...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:18:16 GMT
Indonesia to promote local currency settlement in G20 meeting
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...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:18:15 GMT
Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, Feb. 16
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...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:49:01 GMT
G20 meeting drafts communique on long-term economic recovery strategy
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...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:44:08 GMT
Indonesia reports 64,718 new COVID-19 cases, 167 more deaths
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 ...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:44:08 GMT
ADB approves 150-mln-USD loan for Indonesia's green recovery
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...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 03:30:03 GMT
Myanmar 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 GMT
Myanmar 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 GMT
TYLOO'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 GMT
Indonesia'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 GMT
Indonesia 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 16:18:28 GMT
Indonesia 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 14:37:22 GMT
FIBA 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 GMT
Xinhua 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 GMT
Indonesia 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 GMT
Xinhua 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 GMT
Host 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 GMT
4 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 GMT
Indonesia 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 GMT
AFP 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 GMT
Asian 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...

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:36:08 GMT
Abu 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,...



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