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...

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...

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