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Argentina is confirmed as the host of the FIFA U-20 World Cup by FIFA, following the suspension of the tournament in Indonesia, which refused to host the Israeli team.
2023-04-17

A cargo ship travelling on its way to Pangkajene and Islands Regency from Makassar sinks off the Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. 25 people are missing.
2022-05-26

Forty-one inmates escape from Hpa-an Township's main prison in Kayin State, Myanmar, after hijacking a garbage truck and driving it through the prison gates. Eleven of the escapees are apprehended by police, but 30 remain at large.
2018-09-16

A Myanmar court releases 69 jailed student activists in the first wave of amnesty for the country's political prisoners, with more releases expected. This comes after State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi vowed to push for the release of all the political prisoners in Myanmar.
2016-04-8

Julie Bishop, the Foreign Minister of Australia, says that Indonesia has advised that most of the people who have traveled to South East Asia by boat are from Bangladesh, not Rohingya from Myanmar.
2015-05-23

Two boats carrying 500 members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim people arrive in western Indonesia.
2015-05-10

Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong ban poultry imports from the Australian state of Victoria while Japan bans imports from the whole of Australia following an outbreak of a low pathogenic form of the avian influenza (separate from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain).
2012-02-1

Indonesian search and rescue agencies continue to search for survivors after a boat sinks off the coast of Bali, with 11 people confirmed dead and 14 missing.
2011-09-21

Hundreds of Indonesian protesters in Jakarta demand the riot police be disbanded after three are killed and at least 156 wounded in bloody clashes between Indonesian National Police and demonstrators.
2010-04-19

Premier Wen Jiabao travels to the earthquake zone, having postponed a scheduled visit to Brunei, Indonesia and Myanmar. President Hu Jintao calls the Presidents of Chile and Venezuela to postpone trips to those countries.
2010-04-16