JAKARTA – Despite a vast labor force, local businesses continue to struggle with hiring and retaining top talent. As the government looks to prohibit arbitrary practices like withholding employees’ ...

NEW YORK, United States — Boeing’s CEO confirmed Wednesday that China had stopped accepting new aircraft due to the US-China trade war, as the company’s shares surged following a smaller than expected ...

Garment export volume to the destination also rose by a strong 24.64 per cent, along with a 3.55 per cent increase in unit ...

MANILA – Impunity continues to be a scourge across the world. Despite global and regional averages for conflict and violence remaining “relatively stable,” raw data from key indicators point to an ...

The three nations announced on Sunday that they have agreed to accelerate negotiations on their trilateral free trade agreement and enhance cooperation in supply chain management and export controls, ...

BANGKOK – Amidst the tense situation on the Thai border with Myanmar and Cambodia, due to the Thai government’s crackdown on call-centre gangs, the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in the Bokeo ...

Headaches and Cigarettes: Conviction of North Korean spies reveals playbook of codes, signals The North Korean spy agency sent its instructions to the South Korean network online using steganography, ...

JAKARTA – Indonesia has recorded a historically low poverty rate, according to the latest survey conducted by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), but inequality has worsened slightly and remains particularly ...

DHAKA – Bangladesh has expressed concern over China’s plan to build a massive hydropower dam upstream on the Brahmaputra in Tibet and has formally requested detailed technical information from Beijing ...

JAKARTA – Two coconut processing companies based in Riau have laid off a total of 3,500 workers as they struggle to maintain production in the face of a shortage of the fruit as a key raw material.

JAKARTA – The government is tightening regulations on right-to-cultivate (HGU) permits for oil palm plantations, requiring applicants to allocate 20 percent of their land to local smallholders before ...

JAKARTA – Despite its seven-year streak in not executing any death row inmates, Indonesia last year issued 114 death sentences, a report by Amnesty International has found. Eighty-six percent of last ...