BENGALURU, Oct 17 — Bank Indonesia (BI) will follow its regional peers and leave its interest rate unchanged on Oct.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG, Oct 17 — Chinese civil servants and employees of state-linked enterprises are facing tighter constraints on private travel abroad and scrutiny of their foreign connections, according to official notices and more than a dozen people familiar with the matter, as Beijing wages a campaign against foreign influence.

SINGAPORE, Oct 17 — Singapore's exports fell for a 12th straight month in September on a year-on-year basis as the trade-reliant economy grappled again with global headwinds on inflation and declining demand.

NAIROBI, Oct 16 – Settlement talks have collapsed between Facebook's parent company Meta and Kenyan content moderators over a lawsuit alleging unfair dismissal, a tech rights group working with the moderators said on Monday.

SYDNEY, Oct  16 — An Australian regulator has fined Elon Musk's social media platform X A$610,500 (US$386,000) for failing to cooperate with a probe into anti-child abuse practices, a blow to a company that has struggled to keep advertisers amid complaints it is going soft on moderating content.

JAKARTA, Oct 16 — An unexpectedly large slump in imports led Indonesia to book a bigger-than-expected trade surplus in September despite exports remaining weak, data from the statistics bureau showed on Monday.

SIEM REAP (Cambodia), Oct 16 — Chinese-invested Siem Reap Angkor International Airport (SAI) here in northwest Cambodia's tourist hub commenced operations on Monday, raising hope for tourism revitalisation, reported Xinhua.

SHANGHAI, Oct 16, — China's central bank ramped up liquidity support to the banking system as it rolled over medium-term policy loans on Monday, but kept the interest rate unchanged amid concerns about the risk of more sharp yuan declines.

SINGAPORE, Oct 16 — The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) on Monday raised competition concerns about a plan by Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab to acquire Singapore's third-largest taxi operator, Trans-cab.

ISTANBUL, Oct 16 — Amnesty International said on Sunday that there are no areas of the Gaza Strip that could guarantee the safety of Palestinian civilians from Israeli airstrikes.

GENEVA, Oct 15 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) has strongly condemned Israel’s orders for the evacuation of 22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 patients in northern Gaza.

GAZA CITY, Oct 15 — The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Saturday that Israeli bombing on the eighth day of attacks on the enclave has left 300 Palestinians dead.

ANKARA, Oct 15 — Amnesty International on Saturday published evidence about the Israeli military’s use of white phosphorus in densely populated civilian areas in the Gaza Strip.

RAMALLAH, Oct 15 — Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila said Saturday the Israeli army has killed 28 medical workers in the Gaza Strip with its continuous shelling of the enclave since October 7, reported Anadolu Agency.

MUMBAI, Oct 15 — The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is exploring plans for the creation of the Olympic Esports Games, IOC president Thomas Bach said here on Saturday.

GENEVA, Oct 15 — People in several European countries took to the streets Saturday to show solidarity with Palestine amid a worsening situation in the Gaza Strip.

GENEVA, Oct 14 — Attacks on medical facilities are prohibited under international humanitarian law, a United Nations (UN) human rights spokesperson told Anadolu Agency on Saturday in response to an Israeli order for a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate.

SINGAPORE, Oct 14 — A 30-year-old Australian man and a 39-year-old man were charged with false bomb threats in two separate cases on Saturday, according to a statement by the Singapore Police Force, reported Xinhua.

ANKARA, Oct 14 — At least 11 journalists have been killed amid a massive Israeli air campaign in the Gaza Strip, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said yesterday.

GAZA CITY, Oct 14 — Thousands of Palestinians have taken shelter at the Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, from ongoing Israeli airstrikes.