Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said that he would not hesitate to deploy military and police personnel to assist with clean-up efforts if local governments are unable to act swiftly.
He was arrested in 2023 after police found cannabis in a home he shared with his Malaysian business partner.
The grounding comes amid an investigation into a crash last year involving an aircraft of the same model.
Uruguay President Yamandu Orsi is the first South American leader to visit Beijing since the United States entered Venezuela in January and captured then-President Nicolas Maduro.
Dubai, Feb 3 - The Middle East does not need another confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, and Tehran needs to reach a nuclear deal with Washington, Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said at a World Governments Summit panel in Dubai.
The move is expected to reduce congestion, especially during peak travel periods.
Analysts urged caution citing a lack of clarity.
India’s support was decisive in Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971. Bangladeshi freedom fighters lacked the military capability to overwhelm the Pakistani army and bring down the Dhaka government. Hence, India’s direct military intervention was instrumental in Bangladesh
One of the tankers was later spotted as it sailed through the Singapore Strait.
Indian industry has welcomed lower tariffs, but experts caution against celebration until details are clearer.
A deal would propel South Korea up the league of the world’s top arms exporters.
Malaysian authorities are investigating a viral video posted on Sunday (Feb 1) showing a Grab driver reaching towards a female passenger and asking her inappropriate questions during a ride in Johor Bahru.
MOSCOW, Feb 3 - Russia is ready for the new reality of a world with no nuclear arms control limits after the New START treaty expires later this week, Russia's point man for arms control said on Tuesday.
With a population of five people, Licola is for sale for between A$6 million and A$10 million.
The passenger was told repeatedly to surrender a knife found during baggage screening, but he allegedly refused to comply.
The programme aims to foster nationalism and a stronger sense of service to the country.
Site operators warn that poorly implemented restrictions could harm the welfare of elephants.
Activist groups in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are crowdfunding fiber-optic drones for Ukraine. The locally built drones, with 3D-printed airframes, are reverse-engineered copies of Russian fiber-optic drones recovered by the Ukrainians. Fiber-optic drones have become
Mr Orsi's visit is the first by a South American leader to the Chinese capital since the US captured Maduro.
BEIJING, Feb 3 - China and Uruguay should should work together to advance an \"equal and orderly multipolar world\", President Xi Jinping told his counterpart Yamandu Orsi on Tuesday, according to a media pool report.
A powerful cold air mass has resulted in heavy snow along the Sea of Japan coast in recent weeks, with some areas seeing more than double the usual volumes.
The average age of students taking these courses is 63 to 64.
Car door handles will need to have both interior and exterior mechanical releases, and Chinese car models already approved for launch will have an additional two years to achieve compliance.
Newin Chidchob has been playing kingmaker over the years, joining in coalition governments regardless of ideology.
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina topped the list of individuals who appeared most frequently in disinformation headlines
Working in AI s quietly reshaping the lives of women from conservative backgrounds.
TAIPEI, Feb 3 - Taiwan must look to fellow democracies, not China, for trade and economic cooperation, President Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday, as his government mapped out how the island plans to work with the United States on areas like AI and critical minerals.
The People’s Party is the latest incarnation of the organisation that won the last election in 2023.
Some reasons for the decline were human encroachment, and pollution of rivers and lakes.
As the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group steams through the Arabian Sea and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warns that any American attack would trigger a regional war, the current crisis is following a distressingly familiar script. US President Donald Trump has
Caution is needed as AI-generated answers may be incorrect, said experts.
City council initiative sees Thaipusam coconuts converted into biofuel.
Karachi continues to function with a strikingly minimal presence of basic public amenities.
MANILA, Feb 3 - Philippine lawmakers met on Tuesday to decide whether to advance impeachment complaints against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who is accused of betraying the public's trust, corruption and violating the constitution.
French special envoy Benjamin Gallezot tells CNA how a partnership between Malaco and Carester could help Malaysia develop a full rare earth value chain and attract interest from foreign investors.
The 13-year-old boy swam 4km back to shore after his family members were swept out to sea.
Experts estimate thousands of children missing in China during the 1980s and 1990s.
Mr Prabowo has boasted the goal for the 8 per cent gross domestic product growth by the end of his term.
It makes China the first country to stop the use of designs first made popular by Elon Musk's Tesla.
Bhutan's plastic policy has failed to evolve with changing patterns of consumption.
The PM's message was at odds with her finance ministry that has worked to stem the currency’s decline.
In China, a vast trade in secretly filmed footage of Chinese women and girls has flourished.
The music video has garnered more than 1.4 million views and over 55,000 likes as of noon on Feb 2.
In total, 291GW of coal power capacity remained in the development pipeline by the end of 2025.
The next phase of global AI competition will hinge less on who can scale today’s transformer models the fastest but more on who can reinvent the architecture to deliver comparable capability at a fraction of the power cost, according to a top United States scientist. In simple