JAKARTA: President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said that a human trafficking network is suspected to be behind the arrival of Rohingya refugees in Indonesia.

MANILA: The retail price of rice will continue to go up as the lowest cost of the staple was at P52 per kilo, former Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor said.

Sabang: More than 100 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province last week, officials said, but locals threatened to push them back to sea.

BANGKOK: Thailand will raise the average daily minimum wage by 2.37pc effective Jan 1 next year, a senior official said on Friday, short of the level promised by the ruling party in its election campaign.

PETALING JAYA: Singapore has reportedly just recorded the highest number of weekly Covid-19 cases this year.

MANILA: A passenger severely injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in the central Philippines has died, taking the death toll from the accident to 17, authorities said on Wednesday.

BANGKOK: A double-decker coach smashed into a tree in southern Thailand, killing at least 14 people and injuring 32, police said Tuesday.

AGAM: The total number of hikers found dead after a volcano eruption in Indonesia has risen to 13 after two more bodies were found, a local rescue official said Tuesday.

MANILA:  Police in the Philippines are chasing four men, including two linked to a local militant group, in connection with the deadly bombing of a Catholic mass in the restive south, authorities said today.

MANILA: A cat wearing a black-and-yellow security vest strolls nonchalantly past security guards lined outside a Philippine office building waiting to receive instructions for their shift.