Seasonal air pollution has long afflicted Thailand, like many countries in the region, as colder, stagnant winter air combines with smoke from crop stubble burning and car fumes.

Insolvencies and layoffs have cast doubt on the town's future prosperity, echoing wider anxieties in Europe's biggest economy as it heads toward February 23 elections.

The new marriage law uses gender-neutral terms in place of "men", "women", "husbands" and "wives", also clearing the way for transgender people to wed, and grants adoption and inheritance rights to all married couples.

The Indonesian President posted a message on X on Tuesday to congratulate his newly installed US counterpart and to convey his government's commitment to continuing bilateral cooperation.

Indonesia’s senior diplomat has called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to make haste on securing lasting peace in Gaza as the truce between Israeli forces and Palestinian militant group Hamas entered its third day.

Musk dismissed criticism of the hand gesture as a "tired" attack.

The Republican leader also declared a "national energy emergency" to expand drilling in the world's top oil and gas producer, said he would scrap vehicle emissions standards that amount to an "electric vehicle mandate," and vowed to halt offshore wind farms, a frequent target of his scorn.

Trump said the WHO had failed to act independently from the "inappropriate political influence of WHO member states" and required "unfairly onerous payments" from the US that are disproportionate to the sums provided by other, larger countries, such as China.

The 47th US president will set to work almost immediately with a series of presidential decrees intended to drastically reduce the number of migrants entering the country.

Foreign Minister Sugiono has called for unity and the strengthening of ASEAN institutional capacity, underlining that it was “no longer possible” for Southeast Asian countries to go it alone as the current geopolitical landscape continues to present threats to the stability and security of the region.

According to data from Yu'e Bao, an online money market fund on the Alipay app, users born after 2000 each made an average of 20 deposits a month as of the end of 2024.

The government has never heard of a proposal suggesting that United States president-elect Donald Trump might relocate some Palestinians in Gaza to Indonesia, the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta said on Monday, as the long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas takes effect.

Han -- who is set to attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump later on Monday -- met with Musk and other American business representatives on Sunday, Xinhua said.

Republican Senator Marco Rubio appears on track for confirmation as Trump's secretary of state on Monday, clearing the way for meeting of Quad foreign ministers the following day, people familiar with the matter previously said.

“Hambali has been held at Guantanamo Bay for quite some time, but he has yet to be put on trial,” the minister added.

Two Indonesian migrant workers returned home over the weekend after being held against their will and forced into working for an online scam operation in Myanmar’s rebel-controlled Myawaddy border region.

Owned by China’s ByteDance, the app faces a complete US ban on Sunday unless it finds a non-Chinese buyer.

The Southeast Asian nation remains littered with discarded ammunition and arms from decades of war starting in the 1960s.

Most of Gaza's 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once by the Israel-Hamas war to other parts of the territory.

The court unanimously ruled that the law does not violate free speech rights and that the US government had demonstrated legitimate national security concerns about a Chinese company owning the app.

Trump in the election campaign threatened China and other US trading partners with huge tariffs, but he has also said he is open to talks with Xi, a leader he has long openly admired.

Other issues to be touched on at the meeting include cross-border online scams and human trafficking.

The court's 9-0 decision throws the social media platform - and its 170 million American users - into limbo, and its fate in the hands of Donald Trump, who has vowed to rescue TikTok after returning to the presidency on Monday.

President Prabowo Subianto is still considering many aspects before appointing the new Indonesian ambassador to the United States, a position that has been left vacant for 1.5 years since Rosan Roeslani was recalled to fill a cabinet position.

Khan has been held in custody since August 2023 charged with around 200 cases but his party claim the latest conviction was being used to pressure him into silence.

The Isesaki Police in Gunma arrested the 11 Indonesians and later named them suspects for murder and overstaying their visas.

Indonesia has joined a chorus of countries calling for swift implementation of the ceasefire deal and restoration of access to humanitarian aid agencies, including UNWRA.