WASHINGTON, Jan 17 — US State Secretary Antony Blinken will visit China on February 5-6, reported Sputnik.

LONDON, Jan 17 — Nurses in England and Wales will stage walkouts in February after talks for better pay broke down.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16 — Searchers found the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder on Monday from a passenger flight that crashed, killing at least 70 people in Nepal's worst plane accident for 30 years, officials said.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 16 — No Malaysians have been reportedly affected by the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that jolted Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia, early this morning, the Malaysian Consulate General in Medan confirmed.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16 — Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed killing at least 68 people in Nepal's worst plane accident in 30 years, officials said.

ANKARA, Jan 16 — Rescuers on Monday resumed searching for four people still missing after a plane carrying 68 passengers and four crew members crashed in Nepal, Anadolu Agency reported.

HONG KONG, Jan 16 — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 jolted the Izu Islands, Japan, at 04:49:52 GMT on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.

DAVOS (Switzerland), Jan 16 — The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 53rd Annual Meeting convenes today with 2,700 leaders from 130 countries, including 52 heads of state at the ski resort town here.

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA, Jan 16 — A move by top palm oil exporter Indonesia to restrict shipments and boost domestic biodiesel consumption is set to squeeze global vegetable oil supplies already undercut by lower output in Southeast Asia and Latin America.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16 — Rescuers resumed searching on Monday in Nepal for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said.

SINGAPORE, Jan 14 — Singapore’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan will be on a four-day official visit to Malaysia from Sunday (Jan 15), according to the republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

BUENOS AIRES, Jan 13 — The annual inflation rate in Argentina skyrocketed to 94.8 per cent in December, the highest level in 30 years, the country's statistical office Indec said on Thursday.

TOKYO, Jan 13 — Japanese prosecutors on Friday indicted the man suspected of killing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to local media.

JAKARTA, Jan 13 — An Indonesian corruption court on Thursday found businessman Benny Tjokrosaputro guilty in a stock manipulation case involving state insurance firm Asabri and fined him 5.7 trillion rupiah (RM1.61 billion) Tjokrosaputro was spared a jail term because he is already serving a...

KUALA LUMPUR, January 13 — Palm oil production in the world's largest producers, Indonesia and Malaysia, will remain squeezed this year amid anticipation of rising demand from key market China, industry officials said in a seminar on Thursday.

BERLIN, Jan 13 — Football governing body FIFA on Thursday revealed the candidates shortlisted for the 2022 The Best, which has Qatar World Cup champion Lionel Messi as favourite to take the men's award.

ANKARA, Jan 12 — The world’s oceans were at their hottest ever on record in 2022, according to a new study.

BANGKOK, Jan 12 — Thailand plans to start collecting a 300 baht (RM39.31) fee from foreign tourists arriving in the country beginning in June, with the money raised to support visitors involved in accidents and develop tourist destinations, a minister said on Wednesday.

JAKARTA, Jan 11 — Indonesia’s upstream oil and gas regulator SKK Migas on Tuesday announced that Indonesia has approved the first development plan for the Hidayah oil field, off Java Island, which will be run by Malaysia’s Petronas Carigali.

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