BOGOTA, June 10 — Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country's south on Friday (June 9), more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said.

LONDON, June 9 — El Nino has officially returned and is likely to yield extreme weather later this year, from tropical cyclones spinning toward vulnerable Pacific islands to heavy rainfall in South America to drought in Australia and in some parts of Asia.

JAKARTA, June 9 — The Asean Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) convened a meeting on June 7 in Bogor district, Indonesia's West Java province, to address food-related challenges such as the food crisis, El Nino and food reserves.

JAKARTA, June 9 — With the dry season this year expected to be more prolonged and intense under the La Nina phenomenon, Asean ministers stressed on the importance of expediting the establishment of the Asean Coordinating Centre for Transboundary Haze Pollution Control in Indonesia.

TOKYO, June 7 — The Japanese authorities have seized the second largest batch of synthetic drugs in the country's history, weighing 700 kilogrammes (1,543 pounds), in the port of Tokyo, reported Sputnik quoting Japanese media on Wednesday.

JAKARTA, June 7 — New obligations and prohibitions are being introduced for international visitors on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, stressing those who behave against local norms will be given sanctions.

SPERMONDE ISLANDS, Indonesia, June 7 — For nearly two decades, Indonesian marine scientist Syafyudin Yusuf has worked with former poachers to rehabilitate coral reefs destroyed by their use of dynamite for fishing.

TAIPEI, June 7 — The restoration of a 500-year-old handwritten Holy Quran was completed on Sunday, according to the Taiwan-based Buddhist Tzu Chi Charity Foundation.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 — Despite having set climate ambitions, not enough action has been taken by the governments across Southeast Asia (SEA) to meet nationally determined contribution targets by 2030, according to Southeast Asia’s Green Economy 2023 Report: Cracking the Code, by Bain & Company, Temasek, GenZero and Amazon Web Services.

MOSCOW, June 6 — The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is considering expanding its headquarters in Brussels to find room for Finland and other potential future members, reported Sputnik.

ISTANBUL, June 5 — The airline industry net profit is expected to reach US$9.8 billion (RM44.8 billion) in 2023 with a 1.2 per cent margin, which is more than double the previous forecast of US$4.7 billion (RM21.5 billion) made in December 2022, said the International Air Transport Association (IATA) today,.

JAKARTA, June 5 — The synthetic drug supply in East and Southeast Asia remains at extreme levels and is diversifying, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)’s report.

MOSCOW, June 5 — Bank of America chief executive officer Brian Moynihan said on Sunday (June 4) the United States (US) may face a mild recession in the second half of this year and in the first quarter of the next year.

ISTANBUL, June 5 — The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called on airlines in the Asia Pacific to strengthen their readiness in the transition to the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandate.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 5 — The S&P Global Asean manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) remained above the 50.0 mark for the 20th successive month in May, signalling a sustained improvement in operating conditions.

ISTANBUL, June 5 — The International Air Transport Association (IATA) wants more countries to take the necessary measures to prosecute unruly passengers under the Montreal Protocol 2014 (MP14).

VIENNA, June 5 — The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, a group known as OPEC+, on Sunday (June 4) agreed to adjust their overall production level to 40.46 million barrels per day (bpd) next year, reported Xinhua.

WELLINGTON, June 5 — Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has received one of the country's highest accolades in the King's Birthday honours list on Monday, reported the German News Agency (dpa).

ANKARA, June 5 — The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, known as OPEC+, confirmed on Sunday they would keep their current output cuts unchanged until the end of the year, with additional voluntary production cuts from Saudi Arabia of around 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in July.

JAKARTA, June 4 — A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku on Sunday morning, but did not potentially trigger a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.