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For several days, biologists from Buenos Aires will set traps at various locations on the southern island of Tierra del Fuego to analyze whether the captured rodents carry the Andes strain of the virus, the only one known to spread between people.
1 week agoBetter-than-expected exports and China's domestic fuel-pricing controls have helped weather the energy shock, but higher input costs threaten to squeeze already weak factory margins and further dampen consumer spending if the conflict drags on. ...
1 week agoWhen waste is not measured, it does not appear in performance metrics; when it does not appear in metrics, it is rarely prioritized. ...
1 week agoThe MV Hondius is expected to dock in the Dutch port of Rotterdam between 10:00 am (0800 GMT) and midday on Monday, according to officials, before disembarking the 27 remaining people on board: 25 crew and two medical staff.
1 week agoThe province recorded 748 cases as of April 30, with 51 cases having tested positive after laboratory tests, compared to March 5 data with only 387 cases.
1 week agoThe Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) Composite index plunged as the market opened on Monday, extending its downward trend following the MSCI index rebalancing announced last week.
1 week agoUsing the repatriation of Java Man as a springboard, it is time for Indonesia to develop a strong museum culture, not only to celebrate its vast historical and archaeological wealth but also to wield it as a soft power to elevate its economic, educational and geopolitical value and narrative influence.
1 week agoA year after debuting with an American record label, the Indonesian girl group is riding a Southeast Asian wave that is pushing the region’s music onto the global stage.
1 week ago"The public health risk has been reassessed with the most current information available, and the global risk remains low," said a WHO statement.
1 week agoInspection found that there was less than 5 percent of hazardous and toxic goods in one e-waste container.
1 week agoThe hantavirus infection often causes symptoms that are also seen in other illnesses, which potentially make the disease to be misdiagnosed as other ‘milder’ diseases, health experts have said.
1 week agoGrowing concern over global warming and plastic waste is accelerating research into environmentally friendly packaging for food and beverages. As consumers become more aware of sustainability issues, demand is rising for packaging that is biodegradable, renewable, safe and affordable.
5 hours agoAs the long-standing rules-based order fragments under global uncertainties due to geopolitics, economics and technology, the world urgently needs a coherent, credible and collective framework for stability.
1 week agoThe two are suspected to have used some Rp 7 billion (US$397,660) from the total Rp 28 billion embezzled from the Catholic Church parish' credit union in Aek Nabara, Labuhanbatu regency.
1 week agoEmpires rise and fall, but to my knowledge no state has ever deliberately, and systematically, killed its own power — much less with such speed.
1 week agoAt the museum’s inauguration, President Prabowo Subianto said the site reflects the government’s commitment to labor movements, while calling Marsinah’s murder ‘a brutal act’ that should not happen in the country.
1 week agoThe rupiah's persistent depreciation is a structural consequence of over-reliance on volatile capital inflows to finance a chronic current account deficit, persistent saving–investment imbalances, lasting fiscal deficit and a narrow, commodity-dependent export base.
1 week agoPresident Prabowo Subianto has pledged to address various problems surrounding his administration’s flagship free nutritious meal program, while defending the multibillion-rupiah initiative as essential for students and farmers nationwide amid mounting concerns over its governance.
1 week agoHousing is shifting inexorably from a milestone to a mirage in Indonesia. With a national backlog of 15 million houses, housing affordability has turned into a crisis spanning income groups, pushing many families to rent rather than buy. The government’s proposed 40-year mortgage scheme might ease monthly payments but raises a harder question: Does extending debt across most of a person’s productive life solve the housing crisis or merely redefine what desperation looks like?
1 week agoThe institutional reflexes that govern Jakarta were not built for a New York index provider that can erode a fifth of Indonesia's sovereign investor mandate overnight.
1 week agoWith a total of 202 strokes of rattan cane, it was the largest accumulation of strokes in the regency.
1 week agoForestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni pointed to strengthening prevention systems, integrated early warning, stricter law enforcement and community-based approaches at the site level as steps to decease forest fires.
1 week agoSigns of a flight to safer assets also emerge in the first quarter as rupiah weakness and heightened uncertainty prompt people to diversify wealth and seek protection from depreciation.
1 week agoParties with no seats in the House of Representatives also opposed ideas to raise the legislative threshold and proposed instead to abolish or lower the minimum votes needed for a political party to win a seat in the legislature.
1 week agoBali Health Agency gave an assurance that no case of suspected hantavirus had yet been found in Bali. However, surveillance and prevention measures have been strengthened after several suspected hantavirus cases were found in other regions in Indonesia.
1 week agoThere was plenty of pomp and pageantry, but when it came to substance, there was little for the rest of the world to cheer about.
1 week agoPresident Prabowo Subianto has downplayed the depreciation of the rupiah with statements economists say may send a dangerous signal to the market, potentially dealing a further blow to the currency.
1 week agoDanang Girindrawardana, executive director of the Indonesian Textile Association (API), said that local business community had also conveyed similar complaints to the government but did not receive an adequate response.
1 week agoTrump left Beijing on Friday after two days of talks with President Xi Jinping that featured pageantry and warm rhetoric but limited detail on concrete outcomes across trade and investment.
1 week agoA surge in arrests of suspected foreign scammers in Sri Lanka has authorities concerned that the island is fast becoming a hub for online crime, following sweeping crackdowns in hotspots Cambodia and Myanmar.
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