Indonesia's GDP shrank 3.49% from a year ago, but officials saw hope in the fact that the contraction was narrowing. Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said the worst is over.
About 70% of Indonesia’s mangrove forests have been damaged by aquaculture. But nature-based solutions can help produce food in a more sustainable manner.
Japan is paying about $114 million to 30 firms to raise production in Southeast Asia, in the first round of a multi-billion dollar programme to diversify supply chains.
The possible areas of further expansion of defence and military ties were discussed during talks between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and General Prabowo Subianto.
A clash between culture and medical procedure is resulting in frequent reports of corpse stealing, where family members or, in extreme cases, local mobs take away bodies.
In episode 492 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta looks at the complex geopolitics behind the India-China border dispute, and how a new world order is emerging.
Authorities are stepping up surveillance amid fears of a new wave of infections with the return of thousands of people to cities after the Eid al-Fitr holidays.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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