Sources: BBC
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto sign several cooperation deals worth $10 billion seeking partnership in key areas including water conservation, marine resources, and mining. 2024-11-9
Allied Democratic Forces gunmen shoot and kill a British and South African honeymoon couple and their local tour guide at the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Western Uganda. 2023-10-18
A wet market in Tomohon, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, becomes the country's first market to cease the cat and dog meat trade following prolonged campaigning by local activists and global figures, supported by the Humane Society International. 2023-07-21
Two British aid workers are killed during a humanitarian evacuation from Soledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. 2023-01-24
A British man working at the British embassy in Berlin is arrested by German police on suspicion of spying for Russia. 2021-08-11
Indonesia reports its first two cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant, first discovered in India, in two people from Jakarta. The country also reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.351 variant, first discovered in South Africa, in a person from Bali. 2021-05-3
A school pupil is killed and 27 others are kidnapped from their school in the early hours in Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria. Three staff members and 12 of their relatives are also abducted. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. 2021-02-17
Indonesia reports a record 5,828 new cases and 169 new deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 522,581 and the nationwide death toll to 16,521. 2020-11-27
Singapore closes its primary and secondary schools as smoke from the Indonesian fires raises air pollution to hazardous levels. 2015-09-25
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