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’ ...

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 ...

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 is making a big splash for this year’s haj season, as it has done in previous years. Sending off the world’s largest number of pilgrims, President Prabowo Subianto launched ...

TOKYO – Echigoya, a tofu shop, sits quietly between tall buildings close to JR Kanda Station. Every morning, a stream of office workers stops by to drink freshly made soy milk before going to work.

JAKARTA – The Health Ministry has dismissed concerns surrounding the safety of clinical trials of a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine whose development is funded by the Gates Foundation, chaired by Microsoft ...

DHAKA – Strengthening bilateral military relations and achieving mutual defence objectives were the focus of the first Joint Committee Meeting on Defence Cooperation between Bangladesh and Saudi ...

BEIJING – A Chinese mainland spokesman on Wednesday strongly condemned the ruling Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan for severing cross-Strait historical and cultural ties for separatist motives ...

HANOI – The Government has proposed abolishing the death penalty for several offences as part of a broader amendment to the Penal Code, marking a significant shift in the country’s approach to ...

JAKARTA – Agrowing wave of international condemnation has poured in over the renewed effort to name late president Soeharto as a national hero, with a coalition of global civic groups warning the plan ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Brunei’s 10th year of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride (DGR) drew about 161 registered local riders to participate in the global annual event to raise awareness for prostate ...

MOSCOW – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee Tô Lâm, his wife Ngô Phương Ly, along with a high-level Vietnamese delegation, arrived at Vnukovo 2 Airport in Moscow on ...