BEIJING, Dec 19 —China's economy is expected to see more favourable conditions and more opportunities than challenges in 2024, state media said citing officials of the Chinese Communist Party's finance and economy office.

JAKARTA, Dec 19 — The Indonesian Health Ministry confirmed the finding of cases of transmission of Covid-19 with the variant JN.1 in Jakarta and Batam City, Riau Islands Province.

CAIRO, Dec 19 — Egypt's National Election Authority (NEA) declared on Monday that incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won the 2024 presidential election with some 40 million, or 89.6 per cent, of valid votes, Xinhua reported.

TOKYO, Dec 18 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has once again highlighted the hypocrisy over the crisis in Gaza by “so-called countries that promote democracy and human rights.” In an exclusive interview with Japan’s leading media group The Nikkei, and conducted by journalist Norman Goh...

BEIJING, Dec 18 — China’s economy is expected to see more favourable conditions and more opportunities than challenges in 2024, state media said, citing a government readout.

RAMALLAH (Palestine), Dec 18 — Telecommunications service partially returned to the Gaza Strip on Sunday after a four-day blackout, Anadolu Agency (AA) quoted the telecoms company Jawwal.

JAKARTA, Dec 17 — Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) encouraged Asean and Japan to implement a comprehensive strategic partnership as a capital to strengthen relations amid the current global uncertainty.

TOKYO, Dec 17 — Asean and Japan can collectively play a significant role within the global community towards achieving a peaceful and durable solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 — The death toll in the Gaza Strip and West Bank from continuous Israeli aggression since October 7 has rose to 19,088, with over 54,450 individuals wounded.

SEOUL (Reuters) -An arrest warrant has been issued for a former Samsung Electronics official accused of giving semiconductor technology information to a Chinese chipmaker, as Seoul cracks down effort on industrial espionage.

MOSCOW, December 16 — Tokyo will host a three-day commemorative Asean -Japan summit from Saturday to mark 50 years of friendship and cooperation between Japan and the union of 10 Southeast Asian nations, Sputnik reported.

GAZA, Dec 15 — A complete outage of communications and internet services persists in central and southern Gaza, as well as part of Gaza City for the second consecutive day due to the ongoing Israeli offensive.

MANILA, Dec 15 — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Friday it has signed a grant of US$10 million with the Lao government to strengthen responses to food security in the country.

ISTANBUL, Dec 15 — At least 85 Palestinian athletes were killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and West Bank between Oct 7 and Dec.

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 — The situation in the Gaza Strip is "increasingly desperate and chaotic", a UN food agency official said Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 — After the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, an official of the assembly stressed on Wednesday that the resolution must be implemented.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 14 — Tesla said on Wednesday the company is recalling more than 2 million of its vehicles over autopilot safety issues after an investigation found its autopilot safety system was "not sufficient to prevent driver misuse".

NEW DELHI, Dec 13 — A "serious security breach" took place at the Indian parliament on Wednesday as two men jumped into the lower house from the visitors' gallery, causing a commotion.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 13 — A total of 32 students from the Allied Aeronautics Training Centre (AATC) have received assistance from the Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (Mitra) to pay their aircraft maintenance course fees this year.

JAKARTA, Dec 13 — Countries around the globe should continue to put tenacious efforts to end the raging war between Palestinian Hamas and Israeli occupation forces in Palestine's Gaza Strip, Indonesia's Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi stated.