Kimpton’s Malaysian debut promised contrasts of modernity and tradition. It actually delivered.

The European Union is working on new rules to protect children from the addictive designs of social media such as TikTok, Meta and X, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) in Perak said it was alerted early Monday by a local fisherman who found the survivors floating at sea.

The state asset fund is evaluating the development of its investment in GoTo and has yet to determine the size of any additional stake. 

As the government intensifies its food estate ambitions in Papua, a staggering 58-to-1 military-to-insurgent ratio reveals a development strategy that prioritizes industrial expansion over the basic human rights and ancestral lands of the indigenous population.

Brazilian activist Thiago Avila returned to Sao Paulo on Monday following his detention and deportation from Israel, where he alleged he was tortured and witnessed abuses of Palestinian prisoners during 10 days in custody.

Pertamina and LanzaTech signed a memorandum of understanding to develop technology-based low-carbon energy solutions during the recent Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, the United States.

President Prabowo Subianto had mandated the government to extend the repayment period from 30 to 40 years to ease homebuyers’ installment burden.

Climate change has driven record-breaking outbreaks of fire in Africa, Asia and elsewhere this year, with conditions expected to get worse as the northern hemisphere's summer approaches and El Nino weather patterns kick in, scientists warned on Tuesday.

PT Pertamina (Persero) reaffirms its alignment with Halliburton following a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in February between the two parties focusing on priority areas of cooperation and the development of a more concrete implementation pathway.

If completed, the integration would combine the global and domestic strengths of both entities and potentially create one of the country’s largest financial institutions, with combined assets exceeding Rp 480 trillion (US$27.5 billion).

The planes landed at Eindhoven Airport shortly after midnight, carrying eight Dutch nationals. Other passengers of different nationalities will continue on to their home countries from the Netherlands, authorities previously said.

President Donald Trump warned the ceasefire in the Middle East war was on "life support" Monday after rejecting the latest counteroffer from Iran, which said its military stood ready to respond to any act of aggression.

Indonesians effectively pay more to fly from Jakarta to Surabaya than from Denpasar to Sydney, a signal that something in the structure of the domestic market is not working as it should.

Keir Starmer came under renewed pressure late Monday when four ministerial aides stepped down and more than 70 Labour lawmakers publicly called for the British prime minister's resignation after his appeal for another chance seemingly fell on deaf ears.

Misinformation circulating on social media about vaccines causing disease paralysis, behavioral problems, or worse has become an issue as the number of measles cases in Indonesia has soared, becoming the second-highest in the world behind only war-torn Yemen, according to the Indonesian Pediatric Society (IDAI).

The hantavirus-hit MV Hondius departed the Spanish island of Tenerife for the Netherlands on Monday as the last six passengers and some crew members were evacuated from the luxury cruise ship.

Whether a trapdoor now opens beneath the dollar if the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz reopens is a central question for global markets.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would discuss the topic of arms sales to Taiwan and the case of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week.

Oil prices climbed on Tuesday as US-Iran talks stalled, while markets were mixed as traders appeared to shrug off uncertainty over the 10-week-old war.

As Indonesia chases its "Golden 2045" dreams, the tragic raid of a Yogyakarta childcare center reveals a haunting truth: our economic future is stalled by a systemic refusal to treat childcare as a public priority.

A boat carrying 37 undocumented migrants believed to be from Indonesia sank off Pangkor island on Malaysia's west coast, leaving 14 people still missing, maritime authorities said.

The scamming syndicate also held two Japanese captives, who were forced to work as scam operators.

Japan and the US reaffirmed their close cooperation in dealing with exchange rate moves, including on currency intervention, Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama told reporters after a meeting in Tokyo with her US counterpart, Scott Bessent, on Tuesday.

China is currently leading the energy transition in terms of competitive advantage as the Middle East crisis exposes the deep divide between petrostates and electrostates, and although Europe has begun to strategize its shift to clean power, sustained financing remains a crux.

When political systems neither collapse nor improve, they enter a state of fatigue that erodes the very possibility of reform. Indonesia has transitioned from the explosive ruptures of 1998 to a modern era of managed stagnation, leaving a generation to navigate a democracy that functions as a procedure but fails as a promise.

Questions are mounting over the key figure behind the sponsorship of a Jakarta-based online gambling network, following last week’s raid that uncovered hundreds of foreigners operating across 75 domains and gambling websites from an office building in the heart of a business district in West Jakarta.