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Indonesia exported 4.33 million tonnes of palm oil products in August, data from industry group the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI) showed on Tuesday, up from 2.71 million tonnes in July.
Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to deepen his country's strategic partnership with Indonesia in a call with President Prabowo Subianto on Sunday, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Shares in Indonesia's first listed tech unicorn, PT Bukalapak.com (BUKA.JK) soared 25% on their market debut on Friday as investors scrambled to get a piece of the country's fourth-largest e-commerce company in a booming sector.
Renewable energy capacity additions have been dominated by China in recent years, but if 2030 climate targets are to be met other countries in Asia are going to have step up the pace of deployment.
Asian firms received their smallest upgrade in 12 months in June, hit by a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the region which prompted new restrictions on people's movement to curb fresh coronavirus outbreaks.
Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc said on Thursday it would buy the Philippines and Indonesian units of Dutch consumer finance company Home Credit BV (HC) for about 596 million euros ($621 million).
A Chinese court said on Wednesday it is seeking administrators in the event that it accepts bankruptcy and re-organisation proceedings involving China's third-largest stainless steel firm, Jiangsu Delong Nickel Industry, and three other firms.
Asian flour millers are likely to step up purchases as global wheat supplies are forecast to tighten in the months ahead, with dry weather reducing production in some key exporting countries.
Surging supplies of cobalt from Indonesia and Africa are forecast to outpace demand from electric vehicles, generating large surpluses over the next few couple of years which will keep prices of the metal under pressure.
Glencore stockpiled cobalt in the first half of the year, cutting supplies to the market to support prices of the electric vehicle battery material, the London-listed miner's CEO Gary Nagle said on Tuesday.
The Philippines on Saturday reported its highest single-day coronavirus deaths, mostly due to the reclassification of previous cases, the health ministry said.
Indonesia's central bank has briefed investors from Europe, the United States and Asia following its surprise rate hike, senior deputy governor Destry Damayanti told Reuters on Wednesday.
Malaysia recorded just over 25 million international tourist arrivals in 2024, falling short of its 27.3 million target that the tourism, arts, and culture ministry had set last year.
Indonesia's plan to build waste-to-energy projects in 33 cities across the country may require around 91 trillion rupiah ($5.49 billion) in funding, investment minister Rosan Roeslani told reporters on Friday.
The World Trade Organization largely backed Japan on Monday in its challenge to Chinese anti-dumping duties imposed in 2019 on imports of Japanese stainless steel.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a summit of the Group of Seven rich democracies on Monday there would be no return to the times before Russia's attack on Ukraine, which had ushered in long-term changes in international relations.
Indonesia's state food procurement company Bulog has more than doubled its domestic rice procurement target for this year to 3 million metric tons from 1.27 million tons in 2024, Bulog data showed on Monday.
The United States has issued fresh sanctions on 10 entities and four individuals based in Iran, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Indonesia that it accuses of supporting the production of Iranian drones, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.
Indonesia's central bank surprised markets by delivering its first rate cut in more than three years on Wednesday, moving to bolster growth in Southeast Asia's largest economy ahead of the start of an expected easing cycle in the United States.
Indonesia's PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk has received a $60 million credit line from Singapore's DBS Bank Ltd to help support the company's plan to grow export sales, Chandra Asri and DBS Bank said in a joint statement on Monday.