DENPASAR: Three Australians were arrested in Indonesia over the murder of a male compatriot on the resort island of Bali and face the death penalty, police said Wednesday, after a days-long manhunt.
JAKARTA: A plane carrying hundreds of hajj pilgrims back from Saudi Arabia was diverted in Indonesia on Tuesday after an email bomb threat was sent to authorities, Indonesia’s aviation body said.
DENPASAR: Two suspects allegedly involved in the murder of an Australian man at a villa on the popular Indonesian resort island of Bali have been arrested after a days-long manhunt, police said Tuesday.
PHNOM PENH: A Cambodia-Thailand Joint Boundary Commission (JBC) meeting was held here in the capital of Cambodia on Saturday to discuss border issues following a recent military clash.
JAKARTA: President Prabowo Subianto and United States President Donald Trump, via a phone call, on Thursday evening (June 12), discussed bilateral cooperation and efforts to promote global peace.
BANGKOK: An Air India flight from Thailand’s Phuket to India’s capital, New Delhi, received a bomb threat today and made an emergency landing on the island, airport authorities said.
HANOI: Vietnam’s National Assembly on Thursday approved plans to merge provinces and cities, slashing nearly 80,000 state jobs, as part of major reforms to the communist country’s administrative structure.
SINGAPORE: Jetstar Asia will cease operations on July 31, with over 500 employees in Singapore set to lose their jobs, parent company Qantas announced today.
MANILA: With a 500-percent surge in new human immunodeficiency virus or HIV cases per day, the Philippines now has the fastest-growing number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Western Pacific region. .
MANILA: Kanlaon Volcano registered an increase in sulphur dioxide emissions Friday, according to 24-hour monitoring by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
BANGKOK: Myanmar’s ruling military on Saturday hit back at a UN resolution aimed at curbing labour violations in the war-torn nation, calling it “politically motivated”.
JAKARTA: The Indonesian government is allowing environmental damage including deforestation and violations against Indigenous people to go unchecked around a multi-billion dollar industrial park on a once-pristine eastern island, a report said today.
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over border disputes with Thailand, prime minister Hun Manet said today, after a Cambodian soldier was killed in a recent frontier clash.
SINGAPORE: US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth rankled Singaporeans on Saturday by likening President Donald Trump to the city-state’s late founding premier Lee Kuan Yew.