The Taiwan arms sale announcement is the second under US President Donald Trump's current administration, and comes as Beijing ramps up its military and diplomatic pressure against Taiwan, whose government rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims.

They join tech boss Michael Dell and his wife Susan in contributing to the so-called "Trump accounts," part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" that the Republican president pushed through Congress in July.

The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) has temporarily suspended trading in the shares of pulp producer PT Toba Pulp Lestari (INRU) following a government-ordered halt to its operations. 

WBD has urged shareholders to reject a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, in favor of a deal offered by streaming giant Netflix.

Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump ordered a complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers attempting to leave Venezuelan waters, and those arriving, as Washington massed troops and warships in the region.

Some of the projects set to commence include a US$24 billion aluminium smelter, refinery facilities for bio-aviation fuel in Central Java and a bioethanol facility in East Java.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the aim of the meeting is to convince Thailand and Cambodia to stop escalating tensions along the disputed border

The Philippine coastguard said over the weekend that three Filipino fishermen were injured and two fishing vessels damaged when Chinese coastguard ships cut their anchor lines and fired water cannon near the Sabina Shoal on Friday, actions the Philippine defense secretary denounced as "dangerous" and "inhumane".

In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance.

With the world’s attention turning increasingly toward South Asia, the National University of Singapore (NUS) has launched a new master’s programme that studies a region at the centre of global conversation.

A coastal dolphin species that went viral after its unusual appearance in the Batang Lubuh River in Rokan Hulu regency has been found dead a little over a week after it was first spotted.

Indonesian comic-turned-filmmaker Ernest Prakasa returns to the director’s chair with a comedy that peels back the humor and humanity behind one of the most glamorous, and misunderstood, professions.

Asian shares fell on Thursday as the tech sector took a beating on renewed angst about AI spending, while investors braced for a wave of central bank meetings set to underscore policy divergence worldwide.

US troops have carried out more than 20 strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September, killing more than 80 people as Trump escalates a military buildup against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government.

Lagat Paroha Siadari, head of the Riau Islands Ombudsman, said the agency’s investigation found that 30 special-needs children in Batam could not be admitted to public special-needs schools this year because the city’s only such school, Sekolah Luar Biasa Negeri (SLBN) Batam, lacks capacity.

Indonesia needs to be more active in promoting values or legacies of the 1955 Bandung Conference to advance the global decolonization process in today’s more fractured world, international law experts have said.

Prosecutors from the Attorney General's Office (AGO) have charged four activists arrested after the August unrest, accusing them of spreading social media content deemed inciting hostility toward the government and encouraging students to take part in riots.

President Prabowo Subianto’s aspiration to expand palm oil plantations in Papua for biofuel production has drawn strong backlash from environmentalists, who warn the policy risks repeating the ecological disasters already unfolding in Sumatra. 

Grief has engulfed Sumatra. Flash floods and landslides have devastated the provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra, leaving behind not only the ruins of homes and infrastructure but also the deepening realities of hunger, displacement and profound uncertainty. Yet the government's decision to slash disaster funding to its lowest level in years is now testing its ability to help the affected rebuild their lives.

From their hospital beds in Banteay Meanchey province in northwest Cambodia, several soldiers and police described experiencing respiratory problems after Thai aircraft dropped what they said was "poisonous water".

A continued push for transit-oriented development (TOD) is reshaping Jakarta’s property landscape, helping retail outlets along MRT corridors and producing new growth hot spots.

To fund recovery and reconstruction after the cyclone-induced floods and landslides, the administrations of Aceh and West Sumatra are requesting the central government to not cut the regional transfer fund (TKD) for 2026.

Chinese nationals working at a gold mine allegedly attacked five soldiers and a security guard after the foreigners flew a drone in a mining area.

For more than a decade, the warnings have been mounting. Children have taken their own lives after enduring relentless cyberbullying. Teenagers report rising anxiety and body dysmorphia driven by idealized online imagery, with some reports noting that children as young as ten express interest in using anti-ageing beauty products.

Bank Indonesia has kept the BI Rate unchanged in its final policy meeting of 2025 after having cut the benchmark interest rate five times throughout the year.

Funerals of the Jewish victims of the attack began on Wednesday, amid anger over how the gunmen - one of whom was briefly investigated for links to extremists - were allowed access to powerful firearms.

The IKN Authority announced that Nusantara International Airport is in the process of changing its status from a special-purpose airport to a public airport, a necessary step to serve commercial flights.