JAKARTA, Indonesia — The defense ministers of Indonesia and Japan signed a cooperation agreement on Monday, Jakarta said, underlining the need to safeguard regional peace and stability in the face of ...
The United States is able to move forward with its relationship with China following President Joe Biden's meeting with leader Xi Jinping last year, but that requires Beijing to make clear its own intentions, Washington's top diplomat said on Tuesday.
The foreign ministers of the Group of Eight Arab-Islamic states on Sunday strongly condemned the actions of far-right Israeli police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir towards participants in the Gaza-bound flotilla while they were in Israeli detention.
Indonesian badminton player Markis Kido, an Olympic doubles gold medallist, has died aged 36 from a heart attack, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said in a tweet on Monday.
Indonesia's central bank cut interest rates in a surprise move on Wednesday, stepping up support for Southeast Asia's largest economy against a backdrop of global uncertainties.
Mandatory vaccinations against the coronavirus are an "absolute last resort", the World Health Organization's top Europe official said on Tuesday.
Kusini Yengi's stoppage-time goal saved Australia from a calamitous defeat by Bahrain in World Cup qualifying on Tuesday but the Socceroos will be smarting over another blown chance to steal a march on Asian rivals on the road to 2026.
Indonesia's central bank held its main interest rates steady on Wednesday, as expected by a narrow majority of analysts, to support the sliding rupiah, which hit a four-month low earlier in the day.
Indonesia's incoming president met candidates for senior government posts for a second day.
Southeast Asian used-car marketplace Carsome Group said it has raised $170 million in a funding round from investors including Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek (2454.TW), cementing its position as Malaysia's largest tech unicorn, valued at $1.3 billion.
Chinese commodities firm Xiamen Xiangyu Co on Monday said its state-owned parent plans to acquire its claims against Jiangsu Delong, China's third-largest stainless steel producer, which could face court-ordered bankruptcy reorganisation.
Britain's armed forces minister James Heappey on Thursday said there has been an "overhyping" of controversy over a new trilateral security pact between Australia, the United States and Britain.
A short, porous border is all that separates tiny East Timor from one of Asia's biggest coronavirus epidemics in neighbouring Indonesia.
Asia's rich and their bankers said they are backing an eventual recovery in China and betting exposure to a region that even in a slowdown is the fastest-growing in the world will pay off.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed a ruling finding a former Alstom SA executive not guilty of committing foreign bribery, saying prosecutors had not proved he was under the control of a U.S. company.
Global vegetable oil supplies have tightened in the last couple of years even as the pandemic slowed the demand growth rate, and that has had the most profound price impact on palm oil, the most widely used vegetable oil.
Global nickel usage surged by an extraordinary 16.2% last year on the back of booming demand from both the dominant stainless steel and fast-growing battery end-use sectors.
Indonesia's PT Arsari Tambang, a tin mining company controlled by the family of President Prabowo Subianto, is in discussions to acquire a mining asset in Canada, its chief executive told reporters on Wednesday.
Singapore-headquartered data centre company Digital Edge said on Monday it had raised over $1.6 billion in new capital via a combination of equity and debt financing to fund its next phase of growth.
Taiwan will tighten border controls to keep out the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, authorities said on Friday, requiring arrivals from five countries, including Britain, to be placed in centralised quarantine facilities.
Fujifilm Holdings Corp (4901.T) will restart a clinical trial in Japan of its antiviral drug Avigan for the treatment of COVID-19, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Sunday.