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Indonesia issues full-page newspaper ad on military's expanded role
Published on 22/09/2025
» JAKARTA - Indonesia's defence ministry issued a full-page advertisement in the country's largest newspaper on Monday, detailing and defending non-defence programmes being run by the military, amid criticism of its wider role under President Prabowo Subianto.
EU concludes trade deal with Indonesia
Published on 17/09/2025
» The European Union and Indonesia have concluded trade talks after nearly a decade as part of the bloc’s efforts to diversify its supply chains and open new markets.
Regional shares advance after Wall Street rally
Business, Published on 30/08/2025
» RECAP: Most Asian stocks edged higher on Friday, riding a tech-driven rally on Wall Street, while mounting expectations for a US interest rate cut next month prompted investors to rotate back into riskier regional assets.
Indonesia to launch crackdown on illegal mines in forests
Reuters, Published on 28/08/2025
» JAKARTA — Indonesia's forestry task force is planning a crackdown starting Sept 1 on mines operating without proper permits in around 4.27 million hectares (10.55 million acres) of forest areas, an official said on Thursday.
Malaysia makes contingency plans for agriculture exports under EU deforestation rules
Reuters, Published on 27/08/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia has contingency plans in place to remain competitive in European markets as it works to avoid being classified as a "standard risk" country under the European Union's (EU) new deforestation rules, the commodities ministry said on Tuesday.
Is Asean now a new 'balancing wheel'?
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 15/07/2025
» Last week's Asean Foreign Ministers' Meeting reflects its continued relevance in an increasingly unstable world. Amid US unilateralism and US President Donald Trump's tariff nationalism, Asean has reasserted itself as a balancing wheel -- a stabilising force on which its dialogue partners can still depend.
How Thailand's craft chocolate industry is raising the bar with sustainable practices
South China Morning Post, Published on 12/07/2025
» When it comes to countries that produce chocolate, Switzerland and Belgium may be among the first to come to mind. But neither of them grow cacao, the fruit whose seeds are needed to make chocolate. In fact, 70% of the world's cacao comes from the Ivory Coast, in western Africa.
Tencent Cloud to usher in palm scan payment tech
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 14/05/2025
» Chinese tech giant Tencent's cloud computing unit wants to bring its contactless palm scan payment solution and super-app-as-a-service solution to Thailand, in a bid to cash in on the country's digital transformation.
Indonesia to seek US trade favour with finance, investment deals
Published on 14/04/2025
» Indonesia will seek to strike trade, investment and financial-sector deals in week-long talks in Washington aimed at forestalling or mitigating planned tariffs from one of its biggest trading partners.
The end of cheap palm oil? Output stalls as biodiesel demand surges
Published on 10/03/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR/JAKARTA - Prices of cooking oil could be buoyed up for years by stagnating production and a biodiesel push in top producer Indonesia that are making traditionally cheap palm oil costlier, eliminating an advantage that also curbed prices of rival oils.