JAKARTA: Indonesia has seized an Iranian tanker and Panamanian vessel suspected of illegally transferring oil in the Southeast Asian nation’s waters, authorities said Monday.

SULU: The Philippine Army is organising the first-ever battalion of reservists to boost community-based security forces against the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits in Sulu, military officials announced Monday.

JAKARTA: State-run vaccine manufacturer PT Bio Farma (Persero) announced that it had completed the production of four million doses of Covid-19 vaccine that will be ready for distribution in February 2021.

MANILA: The Department of Health has approved the use of saliva as alternative specimen in Covid-19 tests in Philippine Red Cross laboratories, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said.

MANILA: Despite the travel restrictions due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, foreigners with valid visas can enter the Philippines but are subject to strict health and quarantine protocols, Malacañang said on Friday.

WEST JAVA: Indonesia will soon have a new police chief with the House of Representatives (DPR) approving Com.Gen.Listyo Sigit Prabowo as the successor to General Idham Azis, who retires on February 1, 2021.

JAKARTA: A local Indonesian fisherman has once again discovered a submerged object or underwater drone (pic) – with Chinese symbols on its bullet-like casing – in the waters of the Anambas Islands located in Riau Islands.

SULU: Another Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) group declared persona non grata against all Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the Municipality of Kalingan Caluang here Tuesday.

DENPASAR: Foreigners caught not wearing face masks on the Indonesian resort island of Bali are being subject to an unusual punishment: push-ups.

MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte (pic) supports the decision of the Department of National Defence to terminate its three-decade agreement with the University of the Philippines that bars the entry of the military or police in campuses without prior notice to the UP administration, Malacañang said.