JAKARTA: Four Indonesian Cabinet ministers appeared in the Constitutional Court on Friday to provide testimony in the trial of the dispute over the results of the 2024 presidential and vice-presidential election (PHPU).

YANGON: The number of civilian casualties, including children, who were killed or maimed by landmines and explosive ordnance in Myanmar more than doubled last year to 1,052, the UN children’s agency said on Thursday, as conflict raged in the impoverished country.

SINGAPORE: A Singapore court today convicted a second defendant in its biggest ever money laundering probe, news outlet The Straits Times reported, a case that has seen the seizure or freezing of US$2.2 billion of assets.

BANGKOK: Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday said it had accepted a case seeking the dissolution of the opposition Move Forward Party, in another blow to a popular anti-establishment movement pushing major institutional reforms in the country.

MANILA: The Philippines warned of “high tsunami waves” and called for the evacuation of coastal areas across the country Wednesday after a 7.4-magnitude quake in neighbouring Taiwan.

BANGKOK: Thailand’s senate passed the first reading of a bill to legalise same-sex marriages today, taking the kingdom another step closer to becoming the first Southeast Asian country to recognise marriage equality.

BANGKOK: Thailand’s cabinet has approved a plan to widen the budget deficit target for next year by about US$4.2 billion to help stimulate Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy.

JAKARTA: Dengue fever cases in Indonesia in the first quarter of 2024 has increased almost three times compared to the same period last year, said the health ministry on Sunday.

MANILA: Countermeasures by the Philippines to China’s conduct in the South China Sea will entail strengthening its defence capabilities with allies and exhausting all diplomatic measures to resolve disputes, a security official said on Monday.

JAKARTA: The Vatican's supreme leader, Pope Francis, will visit Indonesia on Sept 3, according to Minister of Religious Affairs, Yaqut Cholil Qoumas.