The advisory issued by Japan's embassy in China came as a senior Japanese foreign ministry official travelled to Beijing to hold talks on Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart to try and tamp down tensions.

On Monday, The UN Security Council voted in favor of a US-drafted resolution bolstering Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan that includes the deployment of an international force and a path to a future Palestinian state.

"We will be doing that. We will be selling F-35s," Trump told reporters when asked if Washington would agree to sell Riyadh the jets at Tuesday's meeting. "They've been a great ally," he added.

The report, published on Tuesday by AidData, a research lab at US university William & Mary, said China's lending and grant giving totalled $2.2 trillion across 200 countries in every region of the world from 2000 to 2023. 

Giving local governments more autonomy and prioritizing human rights are key to advancing Indonesia’s renewable energy aims.

Recent ASEAN summits marked an important point in the bloc’s efforts to navigate its own way in the global system, reinforcing its internal cohesion and developing an outward-looking agenda.

The International Labour Organization is facing a "serious" and "unprecedented" financial crisis as it grapples with dramatic cuts in international funding, its chief warned Monday.

Oslo's model shows that streamlined regulatory and incentive policies can help propel market evolution toward an EV ecosystem, while a separate study shows that vehicle electrification doesn't necessary require nickel or the resulting social and environmental harms.

Following the death of Sultan Pakubuwono XIII on Nov. 2, two of his sons from different wives proclaimed themselves the rightful heir.

Many who fought the Marcos dictatorship with fierce resolve – people who once swore to resist every Marcos who came to power – are not joining those who want Marcos Jr. removed.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency reported that the natural disaster occurred around 4 p.m. on Saturday. Hours of heavy rainfall caused a large hill in the village to collapse, burying 30 houses, farms and rice paddies under debris.

The irony of declaring Soeharto a national hero is that Prabowo doesn't actually need the strongman's ghost to cement his legitimacy: He already has it in spades, and all he need do to carve out his legacy is to break with the past and forge ahead.

A peace plan authorizes the creation of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) that would work with Israel and Egypt and newly trained Palestinian police to help secure border areas and demilitarize the Gaza Strip.

As the United Nations climate summit enters its second week, calls are mounting for Indonesia to take stronger action to protect small islands and the ocean from the looming threats of global warming and industrial emissions.

President Prabowo Subianto has announced that the government will assume responsibility for repaying the Rp 1.2 trillion (US$71.81 million) cost overrun debt incurred by Indonesia's first high-speed railway, Whoosh. Prabowo justified the government's intervention by framing the railway as a public service obligation (PSO), arguing that its benefits extend beyond profit. He further stated that the government intends to fund the repayment using assets recovered from corruption cases, though the feasibility of this approach remains uncertain.

The government and the House of Representatives look set to pass the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) bill into law soon, prompting concerns from civil society groups about its contentious articles and rushed deliberations that allegedly skirted public participation.

A spokesperson for the government's anti-radiation team has said that aside from two footwear shipments linked to the same contamination source in Banten, no other incidents have been reported in recent weeks.

The upcoming policy would allow community health centers (Puskesmas) to send patients directly to hospitals best equipped to treat them, cutting out multiple intermediate steps that often delay care.

MH told her he had been bullied repeatedly since starting junior high school in July, including being hit, kicked and jabbed with a plastic straw.

Now that the Constitutional Court has issued its final and binding ruling to bar active-duty officers from also holding a public post, neither the force nor the government have an excuse to delay police reform.

Mining firms are urging the government to revise the domestic coal price benchmark, arguing that rising production costs make the current domestic market obligation (DMO) scheme unviable, even as authorities consider raising the mandatory sales quota.

Speaking at an event hosted by the Chief Editors Forum on Sunday, Purbaya said the press had grown “increasingly muted” in recent years, leaving poor public policies insufficiently challenged and weakening policy outcomes.

PT Medco Power Indonesia plans to export its first green electricity to Singapore in 2028 as part of a broader strategy to tap the country’s vast renewable energy potential and rising regional demand.

A landslide in the city of Cilacap last week buried a dozen houses in Cibeunying village, the disaster mitigation agency said. Search and rescue efforts were challenging as people were buried 3 to 8 metres (10 to 25 feet) deep, it said.

Based on the latest projections, the Finance Ministry expects to collect less than half of what the state had hoped to secure from tax evaders by the end of the year.

The dispute erupted after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told Japanese lawmakers earlier this month that a Chinese attack on Taiwan threatening Japan's survival could trigger a military response, a scenario previous administrations have avoided discussing in public to avoid provoking Beijing, which claims the self-ruled island. 

The draft, which has been revised several times as a result of high-stakes negotiations, "endorses" the plan, which allowed for a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas to take hold on October 10 in the war-wracked Palestinian territory.