Indonesia authorities plan to launch a special investigation into Lion Air's operations after its flight JT610 crashed last week, killing all 189 people onboard, a government official said on November 5.
The second meeting in the Moscow format on Afghanistan at the level of deputy foreign ministers and special representatives will be held in the Russian capital on November 9, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on November 3.
A black box of the Lion Air plane that went down in waters off West Java province of Indonesia on October 29 were retrieved on November 1.
Ship Baruna Jaya I of the
Marine Survey Technology of the Indonesia Research and Technology Agency has
detected signals from the suspected black box of Lion Air JT610 plane, said
head of the agency M. Ilyas on October 31.
Nearly 10,000 people had moved to safer ground in the Philippines’ northern localities ahead of Typhoon Yutu’s arrival.
A Lion Air flight with at least 188 people on board is believed to have sunk after crashing into the sea off Indonesia's island of Java on Monday, shortly after take off from the capital on its way to the country's tin-mining hub, officials said.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir said on October 27 that the 18 suspects arrested over the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi will be prosecuted in the kingdom, state-run Bahrain News Agency reported.
China, Malaysia and Thailand started their first joint military exercise in the Malaysian resort town of Port Dickson on October 24.
More than 60 companies from around the world are set to attend the Havana International Trade Fair (FIHAV 2018) to be held from October 29 to November 2, government officials announced Tuesday, October 23.
A dialogue on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls took place in Hanoi on October 22, focusing on implementing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 5 aimed at promoting gender equality at work.
Thailand’s exports in September defied analyst expectations, dropping for the first time in 19 months, according to data from the country’s commerce ministry.
Two people have died and 20 remain trapped following a rock burst Saturday (October 20) night at a coal mine in Yuncheng County, east China's Shandong Province.
At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured at a college in the Black Sea region of Crimea on Wednesday (October 17) when a student went through the building shooting at fellow pupils before killing himself, Russian law enforcement officials said.
The Philippine Navy will send a military transport ship to participate in the upcoming ASEAN-China maritime military exercises, a navy spokesman said on October 16.
The ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre) was one of the first organisations that worked with the Indonesian Government to support local people and ease impacts of recent natural disasters.
The main body of the Chinese part of the first cross-river railway bridge connecting with Russia was completed Saturday (October 13), the construction contractor said.
Over 80 participants from 40 entities gathered at the ASEAN Secretariat’s headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 15 for the 2nd Forum of Entities Associated with ASEAN.
CLMVT countries comprising Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam as well as Thailand are seeking to strengthen transport connectivity among them, Myanmar News Agency reported Thursday, October 11.
A suicide bomber killed eight people in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand on Tuesday (October 9), including a candidate in upcoming parliamentary elections, the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting the vote, officials said.
Leaders of the Mekong subregion countries and Japan decided to lift the two sides’ cooperation to a strategic partnership at the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting in Tokyo on October 9.
Russia's de-dollarization plan for its economy does not mean restricted use for Russians of the US dollar, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told Russia's Rossiya-1 TV channel on October 7.
The Cambodian economy is expected to expand 7 percent in 2018, compared to 6.9 percent last year, underpinned by external demand and upbeat investor sentiment, a new World Bank (WB) report said on October 4.
India and Russia on October 5 resolved to further widen their energy cooperation.
Two scientists shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Committee announced in Stockholm on October 1.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on October 1 that a total of 191,000 people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance after multiple quakes and an ensuing tsunami devastated Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.
