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Indian sugar mills are aggressively signing export contracts after New Delhi approved a subsidy for overseas sales and as global prices hit their highest level in 3-1/2 years, four industry officials told Reuters on Thursday.
Grab and GoTo ought to merge. A union of the Singaporean and Indonesian food delivery-to-ride-hailing companies, currently valued at $18 billion, is "inevitable", Macquarie's sales team told its clients in a note published in February. GoTo says it's not in talks about a deal but it's easier than ever to see the logic of such a Southeast Asian combination.
Short video app TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, said on Thursday it would invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia over the next few years, as it doubles down on the region amid intensifying global scrutiny over its data security.
The London Metal Exchange (LME) has approved the listing of the first ever Indonesian brand of refined nickel.
Asia's policymakers are taking increasingly urgent and unusual steps to shore up their economies on the front line of the global energy supply shock, with currencies falling to record lows and pressure already forcing up interest rates.
A pause in a broad selloff in U.S. treasuries and other global bonds last month has given foreign investors time to rethink their Asian holdings and shift money to safer markets such as China, away from riskier countries like Indonesia and India.
As Brazil, Russia and Turkey lift interest rates to ward off inflation and currency pressures, investors are beginning to prod Asia's central banks to follow suit, setting up a potential showdown with countries keeping rates at record lows.
Facebook (FB.O) said on Monday it planned two new undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia and North America in a project with Google and regional telecommunication companies to boost internet connection capacity between the regions.
A magnitude 6.0 quake hit near Indonesia's Talaud islands on Saturday at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), Indonesia geophysics agency BMKG said via Twitter.
Eni has made a major gas discovery in the Ganal block offshore Indonesia, the Italian oil and gas group said on Monday in a statement.
Malaysia's maritime agency has launched a search and rescue operation for 14 people missing after a boat believed to be carrying undocumented Indonesian migrants sank off its western coast on Monday.
The Asian Games in Hangzhou started on Tuesday with all eyes on hosts China playing India in the men's soccer competition, with each team representing a nation of over a billion people.
Indonesia has issued a regulation standardising banks' investments into financial technology companies in response to a booming digital finance sector, the country's financial regulator said in a statement on Wednesday.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.93 struck West Papua region of Indonesia on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) said on Friday that Tokyo Olympics hopefuls will have until June 15 to secure qualification for the Games after a number of World Tour events were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hundreds of Indonesian doctors and nurses on Monday urged lawmakers to halt discussions on proposed revisions to healthcare laws that they said would dilute protections for medical practitioners.
An Indonesian court on Thursday rejected cargo company PT My Indo Airlines' (MYIA) request to restructure the debt of PT Garuda Indonesia as it failed to meet legal requirements, its lawyer said.
Indonesia is expected to post its ninth monthly trade surplus in a row in January, but the amount is set to be smaller than the preceding month after growth in exports slowed, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday.
Indonesia's state oil company PT Pertamina said on Thursday it had started building a jetty and developing four tanks near its Kasim refinery in West Papua, in an effort to boost access to crude oil products in the country's remote eastern region.
Southeast Asian online lending platform Akulaku, which is backed by China's Alibaba , secured up to $100 million of debt financing from the Singapore branch of London-based HSBC , Akulaku's CEO said, as it aims to make the company more profitable.