The tax, which is being shepherded by the OECD, applies to multinational companies with an annual global turnover of more than $770 million.

New President Prabowo Subianto has plans to raise funds through sales of carbon offsets. Last year, he said he was optimistic Indonesia could reach net zero emissions in 2050, a decade earlier than previously targeted, including by retiring coal-fired power plants.

Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Taufik Hidayat said this week that he expects the badminton team to win gold medals at the Los

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Huawei spinoff Honor announced Tuesday it is entering Indonesia and plans to launch its smartphones there by the end of March. The populous Southeast Asian country has banned Apple's iPhone 16 ...

There are still three years to go until the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics, but Indonesia is wasting no time to start athlete preparations in the hopes of

Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the city, its mythology and its reckoning with disaster.

Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, reflects on a city, its mythology and a reckoning with disaster.

ART SG returned to Singapore's Marina Bay Sands Resort and Convention Center this week while the global art market continues to deal with a sales slowdown and fragmentation, and several fires in Los Angeles devastated artists,

Days of extreme and unusual heat preceded Chile’s wildfires in February of 2024. Temperatures soared to the upper 30s – more than 15 degrees hotter than is normal for that time of year, especially in the valleys and foothills of central Chile.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday that he had urged the United States to establish a US consulate in Bengaluru and promised to open an Indian diplomatic mission in Los Angeles

Hegseth responded at the heated Senate confirmation hearing that he couldn't tell Duckworth the exact number of ASEAN nations, but that "I know we have allies in South Korea and Japan in AUKUS (a pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S.) with Australia."