JAKARTA, June 9 — Indonesia has launched an export acceleration scheme aimed at shipping at least one million tonnes of crude palm oil and derivatives following a recent export ban, according to a trade ministry regulation made public on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, June 9 — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that the effect of the war in Ukraine on food security is "speeding up." He was speaking at a news conference to release a report from the UN Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance, which said the...

GENEVA, June 9 — There is a “real” risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic countries, the World Health Organisation warned on Wednesday, while also reiterating that the Covid-19 pandemic “is not over.” “More than 1,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox have now been reported to WHO from...

PHNOM PENH, June 9 — Cambodia started providing the fifth dose of Covid-19 vaccines to priority groups across the country on Thursday, the Health Ministry's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said.

NEW YORK, June 9 — The world is facing a cost-of-living crisis unseen in at least a generation, partly due to the Ukraine conflict, said a UN report on Wednesday.

JAKARTA, June 8 — The Indonesian government has postponed its plan to hike the entrance fee to the iconic Borobudur Temple announced earlier, Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo said.

HANOI, June 8 — Vietnam is considering cutting taxes on fuel to help ease prices at all-time highs, but inflation remains under control and helped by domestic food production, its finance minister said on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has to follow through with inclusive and equitable developments, leaving no one behind in order to achieve sustained growth, be it in a crisis or in good times.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — The prolonged Russia-Ukraine war will cause disruptions in food security in the long term, as sanctions on Russia will have an adverse implication for the global market, an analyst said.

NEW YORK, June 8 — PayPal said its users will be able to transfer digital coins from their accounts to other wallets and exchanges with immediate effect, enabling the payment service to become a broader part of the cryptocurrency trade.

HANOI, June 8 — Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, is considering injecting the fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccines to vulnerable adults or those whose jobs put them at high risk of exposure to the virus, starting this month.

MANILA, June 8 — The Philippines said on Tuesday it has extended until the end of 2022 an executive order that lowers the tariff rate for rice imported from outside Southeast Asia to 35 per cent from 40 per cent-50 per cent.

PHNOM PENH, June 7 — Cambodia has become a Covid-zero country after the last patient recovered, according to a Health Ministry statement on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, June 7 — President Joe Biden waived tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations for two years and invoked the Defense Production Act to spur solar panel manufacturing at home, the White House said on Monday, confirming a Reuters report.

NEW DELHI, June 6 — There is no financial emergency in Pakistan but the government will come up with an austerity plan, the country's Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Monday.

JAKARTA, June 6 — The provincial government of Jakarta, Indonesia, has expanded the odd-even zones to 25 from the previous 16, effective today to reduce traffic congestion.

LONDON, June 6 — Tory MPs will take a vote of confidence in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership on Monday evening, the party’s 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Bradley said.

SINGAPORE, June 6 — The Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) today said that it was informed on June 4, by the New South Wales Health Ministry that a man who had transited through Singapore en route to Australia on June 2 was diagnosed with monkeypox.

MANILA, June 5 — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Sunday raised the alert level for Bulusan volcano from zero to one after the volcano in Sorsogon province, southeast of Manila, spewed a grey plume about a kilometre high into the sky.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale struck the Tonga Islands at 9.07pm tonight.