There are a multitude of reasons why the London Metal Exchange should approve China’s Tsingshan Holding Group’s request to register aluminum produced in Indonesia. Not because markets owe Jakarta a favor, nor because China’s industrial champions deserve another victory lap, but
SYDNEY, May 12 - An Australian court on Tuesday ordered miner Fortescue to pay A$150 million ($108 million) in compensation to an Indigenous group for cultural loss caused by iron ore mining on their land without their permission.
Jakarta has been on alert as cases of the rodent-borne disease surface in Asia.
North Korea’s capital is experiencing a surge in passenger cars, creating traffic jams for the first time.
It scares wild animals away by emitting different sounds, along with shining a bright LED light.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, May 12 - Seven people, including two police officers and five civilians, were killed and dozens wounded in a blast at a market in north-western Pakistan on Tuesday, a senior police officer said, the second deadly attack in the region in four days.
Singapore also calls Strait of Malacca model a guide for global waterway disputes .
Indonesia’s Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said on Monday (May 11) that no agreement has been reached on the hub’s location but it hopes to partner with Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines to advance the proposal.
China has learnt that playing to the US president’s ego may not be worth the extra effort.
Any rapport between the leaders may do little to diminish the tech competition.
He says he may meet Norwegian defence minister in Singapore to convey message.
Himanta Biswa Sarma is seen as one of the architects of BJP's rapid growth in India's northeast.
Calbee is one of many in Japan's corporate landscape suffering from the impact of the Iran war.
Meetings between Chinese and American leaders are not exactly routine, but few are historically groundbreaking. The exceptions include the very first visit by a sitting US president to China, when Richard Nixon met with Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in February 1972 – at a
The latest warning from Washington that China could face visa restrictions over deportation cooperation points to a broader pattern: migration policy is increasingly being pulled into the orbit of geopolitical rivalry. While US officials frame the issue as a matter of
The country was expected to spend about 10 times more on fuel subsidies than before the conflict.
During the incident, three passengers complained of throat irritation.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said such cases were 'creating uncertainty in business confidence'.
The government is cracking down, but free speech advocates say it is the wrong approach.
Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, a former national police chief, has sought refuge in the senate.
Prisons will also contribute some raw materials for the kitchens through agricultural activities.
Trump’s world is not rules-based globalization or full Cold War fragmentation — it’s perpetual leverage economics. This week’s summit in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will showcase that reality more clearly than any major diplomatic encounter since Trump returned
The boat was carrying 37 undocumented migrants believed to be from Indonesia.
The US-Israel war on Iran has acted not as a mere diversion but as a brutal accelerator of history, fundamentally rupturing the Middle East’s security architecture and accelerating the very realignment it sought to prevent. In the war’s destructive wake – marked by the
The disaster killed 168 people and displaced thousands, laying bare lapses in construction safety while leaving survivors and families struggling to rebuild their lives and seek answers.
Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his supposed anti-China advocacies.
WASHINGTON/DUBAI, May 12 - Hopes for a peace deal on Iran faded on Tuesday after Donald Trump said a ceasefire with Iran was \"on life support\" as Tehran rejected a U.S. proposal to end the conflict and stuck to a list of demands the U.S. president described as \"garbage\".
WASHINGTON, May 11 - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held separate calls with his Australian and British counterparts on Monday to discuss Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said.
The disease has been detected in Indonesia in the past two years, with dozens of people infected.
Over 8,000 suspected cases of measles and 10 deaths were recorded in the first three months of 2026.
May 12 - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this week for talks in Beijing certain to feature the issue of democratically-governed Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, although Taipei rejects those claims.
Samsung's labour union has threatened an 18-day strike starting on May 21.
Bear attacks killed 13 people in Japan in 2025, more than twice the previous high.
Around 22.1 per cent of the children examined had blood pressure above normal levels for their age.
LOS ANGELES, May 11 - The mayor of Arcadia, California, a heavily Chinese-American suburb of Los Angeles, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of acting as a foreign agent of China, spreading propaganda on behalf of Beijing, U.S. officials said on Monday.
A total of 45 firefighters were deployed to the scene.
President Trump needs China more than China needs him, say political analysts.
The boat is believed to be carrying undocumented Indonesian migrants.
Mr Xi Jinping saw in any sign of disobedience the seed of a political threat to his rule.
Trump's whirlwind visit to China is the most significant for years - but will it bear fruit?
An Indonesian guide who led hikers up Mount Dukono has described the moment of Friday's eruption which killed three people.
As trade disputes loom over this week’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, proposals for a “Board of Trade” and a separate “Board of Investment” may be on the table.
Countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand are recalibrating their tourism strategies, while tour operators have ramped up intra-Asia offerings as airspace restrictions and rising costs weaken long-haul demand.
India heavily relies on foreign imports for its fuel needs and is also one of the world's largest importers of gold.
The United States has sanctioned a new group of mainland China- and Hong Kong-linked companies and individuals accused of helping Iran secure drone materials and missile-related components, raising fresh tensions days before US President Donald Trump’s state visit to China. The
WASHINGTON, May 11 - The U.S. government on Monday announced sanctions against three people and nine companies, including four based in Hong Kong and four in the United Arab Emirates, for aiding Iran's shipment of oil to China. The ninth company is based in Oman.
Kokuho is a colourful, lengthy epic, spanning five decades and running almost three hours, set in the world of kabuki – Japan’s most popular traditional performing art. It has been a huge hit in Japan, becoming the country’s highest-grossing live-action film ever. The film’s