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View all search resultsMatcha is enjoying a renewed boom in Indonesia in 2025, driven by social media trends, specialty cafés and matcha-infused treats. As the powdered green tea goes mainstream, purists continue to defend its cultural roots through chado, the Japanese tea ceremony.
Following the Myanmar crisis, which remains unresolved to date, the ongoing Thai-Cambodian border conflict presents a decisive moment for ASEAN to reclaim its standing as a force for peace and stability in Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asian countries are pitching in to present an ASEAN pavilion in addition to individual booths at the 36th World Expo from April 13 to Oct. 13 in Osaka, Japan, aiming to promote trade and investment opportunities in the region as well as closer ties between member states.
"The alarming spike in the spread of the virus in Jakarta threatens not only our health and safety but also those of our families and loved ones. We commute by the public transport system, which potentially exposes us to the virus. The visitors who enter the ASEAN Secretariat premises also create further risks to our health," Phuong wrote in the page on the website referring to the spike of the death toll and the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Despite Indonesia’s plan to move its capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan, the ASEAN Secretariat is to remain in Jakarta, ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi has said, likening the city to New York, where the United Nations is seated.
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