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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday extended his support for Ukraine at the G20 summit while confirming a long-planned order for warships from BAE Systems .
Japanese shuttlers had won 15 straight matches at the Tokyo Games but that incredible streak came to a halt on Tuesday with losses in both men's and women's doubles, leaving badminton superpower China as the only nation yet to taste defeat.
India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to review their trade pact by 2025, the Indian government said on Monday, less than a month after India's trade minister called the agreement unfair to the Indian industry.
India slashed its export tax on raw hides and skins of buffalo to 30% from 40% earlier, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday.
Indonesia is studying the implementation of a biodiesel blend that contains 50% palm oil in 2026, and is also looking at a 3% blend for jet fuel next year, energy ministry official Eniya Listiani Dewi told parliament members on Tuesday.
One of the world's biggest palm oil producers, FGV Holdings , expects output to rise between 1% and 3% in 2025 on the year, boosted by improvements in yields and oil extraction rate, its chief executive told Reuters on Wednesday.
Wildlife authorities in some Asian countries are seeing an increase in seizures of tigers and tiger parts despite efforts by conservationists to protect the endangered animal, according to a report by wildlife trade watchdog TRAFFIC.
Indonesia's economy likely grew at its slowest pace in nearly four years last quarter as weak household spending weighed on overall growth and offset a boost from exports, according to a Reuters poll of economists.
Oversupply in the global nickel market is expected to persist over the next few years given production capacity expansion and slower growth in demand for the metal used in batteries and stainless steel, speakers at an industry event said this week.
Malaysia's labour-reliant palm oil companies are looking to recruit recovering drug addicts and prisoners to solve a severe shortage of migrant foreign workers as the coronavirus pandemic shuts borders and hampers output of the edible oil.
The Philippines is backing a new defence partnership between the United States, Britain and Australia, hoping it can maintain the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific region, a view that contrasts sharply with some of its neighbours.
Indonesia's central bank will keep intervening in the foreign exchange markets to ensure moves in the rupiah exchange rate reflect the currency's fundamentals, it said on Wednesday, as the rupiah trades near a historic low.
Indonesian anti-corruption activists have suffered a surge of digital attacks, from the hacking of messaging accounts to the sabotage of a Zoom conference with pornography, and they say they fear they are being targeted for speaking out.
Thousands of residents in Indonesia's East Java were on high alert on Monday after a violent eruption at the island's tallest volcano prompted authorities to impose an 8-kilometer no-go zone and forced evacuations of entire villages.
Dismayed by the plastic waste strewn over their home island of Bali, sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen have channelled Ted Talks and international conferences in raising global awareness through a youth-led movement to try to eliminate the scourge.
Antibodies triggered by Sinovac Biotech's (SVA.O) COVID-19 vaccine declined below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, but a third shot had a strong booster effect, a lab study showed.
The early retirement of an Indonesian coal power plant has hit a snag amid wider challenges to the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) programme, a G7-backed funding initiative to help developing nations cut carbon emissions.
An Australian man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to attempting to broker weapons and commodities deals with North Korea, contravening United Nations sanctions.
Indonesia exported 15,684.23 tonnes of robusta coffee beans from its Sumatran province of Lampung in January, data from the local trade office showed on Thursday.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke briefly with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at a regional summit in Cambodia on Sunday, amid anticipation of a formal summit with President Xi Jinping.