Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said that Musk has confirmed his attendance at the ceremony and that he would also speak in one of the seminar sessions at the WWF.

The case is being seen as an important test of social media platforms' legal responsibilities and of the use of geoblocking.

South Korea is readying plans for a support package for chip investments and research worth more than 10 trillion won ($7.30 billion), the finance minister said on Sunday, after setting its sights on winning a "war" in the semiconductor industry.

China on Friday announced some of its most sweeping measures yet to stabilise the crisis-hit property sector, allowing local governments to buy "some" apartments, relaxing mortgage rules and pledging further efforts to deliver unfinished homes.

OpenAI on Friday confirmed that it has disbanded a team devoted to mitigating the long-term dangers of super-smart artificial intelligence.

Indonesia is hosting the Global Digital Transformation Center (DTC) Workshop 2024, organized by International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a United Nations agency specializing in information and communication technology (ICT), and multinational technology company Cisco, the annual workshop brings together the focal points of all digital transformation centers from Asia and the Pacific, Africa, the Americas and Arab regions.

Speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum, Prabowo said criticism of Indonesia's downstreaming policies for coal, palm oil and nickel was misplaced and insisted that all nations maintained at least some trade restrictions.

Asian stocks inched lower on Friday as traders pondered the near-term US monetary policy path after Federal Reserve officials suggested that interest rates may need to stay higher for longer even as inflation shows early signs of easing.

Asian stock markets rallied on Thursday, buoyed by Wall Street's surge to all-time peaks overnight after a milder US inflation report raised expectations the Federal Reserve will deliver at least two rate cuts this year.

Asian markets wobbled Wednesday ahead of key US inflation data later in the day, with traders struggling to pick up the baton after a record performance on Wall Street.