Dian Sastrowardoyo, playing Dasiyah or Jeng Yah in the Netflix series “Cigarette Girl“, is seen experimenting with a recipe for a new cigarette flavor.

Smoke show: Netflix’s ‘Cigarette Girl’ lights up debate about cigarette depiction in media

Indonesia’s first-ever Netflix series Cigarette Girl causes controversy over on-screen depictions of cigarette smoking.

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Sam Altman joins Microsoft

"We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on social media platform X. He added Microsoft remains committed to its partnership with OpenAI. ...

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World's richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds: report

Among the key findings of this study are that the richest one percent globally -- 77 million people -- were responsible for 16 percent of global emissions related to their consumption. ...

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Jimmy Kimmel hosts the Oscars show at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, US, March 12, 2023.

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Jimmy Kimmel chosen to host Oscars for fourth time

The 96th Oscars will air on Walt Disney-owned ABC and broadcast outlets around the world on March 10, 2024.

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A screen grab from Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon'.

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Apple's Napoleonic $200 million gamble

The budget -- said to be close to $200 million -- has paid for some gargantuan battle scenes from Austerlitz to Waterloo, though the British director also focuses on the intimate side of Bonaparte's life, particularly his fraught love affair with his wife, Josephine.

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Two Lindu people fish on Lake Lindu in Sigi regency, Central Sulawesi, June 22, 2023.

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How customary laws help an Indonesian tribe preserve a forest

The Lindu tribe of about 5,000 people lives in the heart of Lore Lindu National Park, a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province that is a model of how humans and nature can co-exist in harmony.

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Proper bicycle lanes must accompany bicycle lane planning that prioritizes safety and comfort for experienced and prospective cyclists.

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Painting the bicycle lane green is never enough

A physical separator is vital to bicycle lane design, especially in a city like Jakarta.

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A sign hangs in front of the world headquarters of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston, Massachusetts, US, October 23, 2019.

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UK authorizes gene therapy for blood disorders in world first

US-based companies Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics welcomed the approval in a separate statement.

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‘Black widow’: A spinning-neutron star periodically swings its radio (green) and gamma-ray (magenta) beams past Earth in this artist's concept of a black-widow pulsar. The pulsar heats the facing side of its stellar partner to temperatures twice as hot as the sun's surface and slowly evaporates it.

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Brightest flash ever disturbed Earth's atmosphere last year

A massive burst of gamma rays from an enormous cosmic explosion around two billion light years away arrived at Earth on October 9, 2022, lighting up telescopes around the world.

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British band Coldplay front man Chris Martin walks barefoot on Jl. Galunggung near the Setiabudi reservoir in Central Jakarta on Nov. 14, 2023, a day before his first-ever concert in the city.

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Chris Martin enjoys morning walk before Jakarta concert

Despite protests from hardline conservative groups condemning the group's support for lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer (LGBTQ) causes, Coldplay is scheduled to perform at Bung Karno Sports Stadium (GBK) in Central Jakarta on Wednesday night.

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Standing on a sloping hill in Lebak Bulus, South Jakarta, Semesta's Gallery has gained recognition among the city's urbanites for being a unique art gallery-cum-green space in Jakarta. The gallery officially opened its doors to the public in October 2022.

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What happens when art meets nature? Meet Semesta's Gallery

Standing on a lush, sloping hill in South Jakarta's Lebak Bulus, Semesta's Gallery has steadily clinched a reputation as one of the most distinctive art galleries in the city.

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'Gadis Kretek', Netflix's original Indonesian miniseries, premieres on the global streaming platform on Nov. 2. The miniseries stars Dian Sastrowardoyo (pictured), Ario Bayu, Arya Saloka and Putri Marino.

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With 'Gadis Kretek', Kamila Andini and Netflix aim for 'best in class' Indonesian lore

Love, patriarchy, cigarettes, the harrowing 1960s. For the global streaming platform's latest Indonesian project, everything relies on the right story, and the right woman at the helm.

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To date, the Mikrotrans service operates 96 routes in Jakarta.

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‘Angkot’ make a modern-day comeback in Jakarta

Forget the ramshackle, rust buckets on wheels of the past: Revitalized and rebranded as Mikrotrans, public minivans have had a renaissance in Jakarta that could be replicated for all angkot services across the archipelago.

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Going international: The 38th Golden Disc Awards, one of the most revered South Korean music award shows, will be held in Jakarta for the first time in 2024.

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Indonesia to host K-pop award show Golden Disc Awards for the first time

In January Jakarta will for the first time host the the Golden Disc Awards, a testament to its huge K-pop fanbase albeit many years after other Southeast Asian hubs such as Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.

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US singer SZA arrives for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022. Pop's superstar women including Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish on November 10, 2023, dominated the nominations for the 66th annual Grammy Awards, the music world's top prizes, as SZA scooped the most chances at gold with nine.

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Women dominate music's Grammy nominations, SZA tops with nine

SZA -- the acerbic, R&B risk-taker whose layered tales of romance earned her acclaim with her debut Ctrl in 2017 and saw her top the charts again with 2022's SOS -- is poised to rule the night, with nominations spanning the categories.

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Health

US approves first vaccine against chikungunya virus

The vaccine, developed by Europe's Valneva which will be marketed under the name Ixchiq, was approved for people 18 and over who are at increased risk of exposure, the FDA said.

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An echidna walks amid vegetation in the Cyclops Mountains, Papua, July 22, 2023.

Environment

Long-lost mammal rediscovered in remote Papua mountains

Having descended from the mountains at the end of the trip, biologist James Kempton found the images of the small creature walking through the forest undergrowth on the last memory card retrieved from more than 80 remote cameras.

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People

Cultural insights in street fashion: A Japanese icon's perspective

Fashion, by design, looks up and down and around for the latest inspiration, going back in time and peering to the future for the next season and drop.

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This undated handout obtained on November 2, 2023 from the European Space Agency ESA shows an alternative crop of astronomical image of a Horsehead Nebula taken during ESA's Euclid space mission, which is built and operated by the European Space Agency ESA and with contributions from NASA.

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Euclid space telescope releases first images

Euclid blasted off in July on the world's first-ever mission aiming to investigate the enduring cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

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A wall display featuring ‘batik tulis’ (hand-drawn batik) is seen on Oct. 29, 2023 at the Angsukayana Mangkunegaran Batik exhibition, held at Sisworini Hall of Mangkunegaran Palace in Surakarta, Central Java.

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Pura Mangkunegaran presents royal heritage in Angsukayana batik exhibit

The Mangkunegaran duchy has launched an exhibition and fashion show to present its rich batik heritage that has developed over the centuries.

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A screen displays images as Mexican journalist and UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan (not pictured) hosts a second briefing on unidentified flying objects, known as UFOs, at Mexican Congress, in Mexico City, Mexico November 7, 2023.

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Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies

At Tuesday's session, Maussan was more focused on proving the bodies, which were not on display this time, were not fake, ushering in a string of doctors who all said the bodies were those of real, once-living organisms.

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G-Dragon has been denying drug use accusation through his lawyer since the news first broke out. On Oct. 31, 2023, he said he submitted all the necessary evidence for the probe and repeated he will “sincerely cooperate in the investigations.”

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‘Justice will prevail’: G-Dragon insists no drug use, tests negative

On what he talked about during the four-hour grilling, he said it “was done laughing,” but quickly said, “That was a joke.”

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Pop diva Barbra Streisand is a loud and proud Democrat who has made no secret of her disdain for Donald Trump.

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Streisand's new memoir says she's 'still hurt' by insults over looks

In doing press for the memoir Streisand has said penning her life's story herself has been "the only way to have some control over my life."

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Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong (center) walks with his mother Hong Ra-hee on his left and one of her younger sisters, Lee Seo-hyun on his right at a Samsung concert hall in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province on Oct. 19, 2023.

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Samsung family members selling $2b worth of shares to cover inheritance taxes

Since the death of late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee in October 2020, his family members have been paying inheritance taxes in installments for the assets inherited according to a five-year plan.

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It's all about the aesthetic for many young Koreans, who embellish their bags with key rings, which seemingly serve no practical purpose and have no keys attached, and are also known as bag charms.

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Plush bag charms in high demand among young Korean women

It's all about the aesthetic for many young Koreans, who embellish their bags with key rings, which seemingly serve no practical purpose and have no keys attached, and are also known as bag charms.

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Barren land: Rows of dead coconut trees are seen in this photo taken on July 25, 2023 in one of the former coconut plantations of Kuala Selat village in Indragiri Hilir, Riau. Seawater is intruding further inland as the village loses the mangrove forests that protect it from waves and erosion.

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Sumatran coastal village scrambles to save lost livelihood, disappearing land

First, they lost their home, then their source of livelihood and clean water. Villagers and officials are scrambling to save Indragiri Hilir in Riau from coastal erosion before the encroaching seawater seizes their lives forever.

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Fans surround Beatles Paul McCartney (center) and George Harrison (second from right) upon their arrival at Orly airport on June 20, 1965, before their concert at the Palais des Sports the same evening. When the Beatles broke up more than 50 years ago, devastated fans were left yearning for more. Now, artificial intelligence is offering just that.

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New Beatles single 'Now and Then' released

The song comes more than four decades after it was originally recorded as a demo, but despite the hype left critics distinctly underwhelmed.

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Bicycle lanes can be integrated with public transportation to make it easier for cyclists to travel long distances by mixed commuting.

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Jakarta needs to reduce cars and motorcycles, not bicycle lanes

Congestion in Jakarta causes annual economic losses of up to Rp 100 trillion (US$6.3 billion) and 100,000 traffic accidents yearly.

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Joining the festivities: Jakarta's moviegoers visiting Jakarta Film Week 2023 take photos with the cast and crew of Indonesian family drama 'Budi Pekerti’, which was screened as the opening film of the festivity at CGV Grand Indonesia, Central Jakarta, on Oct. 25. Jakarta Film Week 2023 took place at CGV Grand Indonesia, Galeri Indonesia Kaya and Kineforum Taman Ismail Marzuki until Oct. 29.

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Jakarta Film Week 2023: A celebration of genres and the enduring power of cinema

From immigrant romance to acclaimed body horrors, this year's edition of Jakarta Film Week drew in the city's cinephiles by screening different genres for different tastes.

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Lost cover: An aerial photo taken on Sept. 25, 2022, shows a destroyed part of the mangrove forest at Kuala Selat village in Indragiri Hilir, Riau. While most parts of the village’s mangroves are cut down by humans, the remaining ones are not strong enough to withstand the waves and are eroded along with the coastal land.

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After mangroves disappear, Sumatran village braces for worsening tidal waves

Mangrove deforestation in Indragiri Hilir, Riau removes coastal villagers’ protection against the threat of large waves. The climate crisis puts them at a higher risk than ever.

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