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Xi primed to meet Japan, Canada leaders after Trump summit
AFP, Published on 31/10/2025
» GYEONGJU — Chinese leader Xi Jinping was expected to meet Canada and Japan's new prime ministers for the first time on Friday, a day after agreeing to a trade war ceasefire with US President Donald Trump.
Indonesia conducts test flight using jet fuel mixed with palm oil
Reuters, Published on 06/10/2021
» JAKARTA: Indonesia conducted its first test flight using jet fuel partially from palm oil on Wednesday, a senior minister said, as the country plans to commercialise the fuel as it seeks creative ways to use the edible oil domestically.
Arrests, anger and court battles -- the case of Meng Wanzhou
AFP, Published on 25/09/2021
» NEW YORK - The 2018 arrest in Vancouver of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant, followed by China's detention of two Canadians, sparked an unprecedented dispute between Beijing and Ottawa.
Battered by virus and oil slump, biofuels fall out of favour
AFP, Published on 27/11/2020
» LONDON: Hit by the coronavirus pandemic and a sharp drop in oil prices, biofuel demand has declined for the first time in two decades and may struggle to recover, according to experts.
Green deal for Asean
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 16/12/2019
» In a move that could be seen as a reflection of the Green New Deal policy that it launched last week, the European Union (EU) is committing €24 million to support groups working to combat transboundary haze pollution and peatland fires in Southeast Asia.
Palm oil, pineapples threaten SE Asia's indigenous lands
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 24/09/2019
» Palm oil plantations in Indonesia and commercial fruit orchards in the Philippines have uprooted indigenous people and rural communities from their land, despite laws put in place to protect them, human rights groups said.
Indonesia slaps tariffs on consumer goods as rupiah slides
Reuters, Published on 14/08/2018
» JAKARTA: Indonesia's finance minister said on Tuesday the government was prepared to take "strict corrective" measures to control swelling imports as policymakers scrambled to contain a slide in the rupiah currency.