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Indonesia’s new capital got a name: Nusantara
Indonesia’s parliament on January 18 finally passed a bill to relocate the nation’s capital from Jakarta to an area in East Kalimantan province on...
Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway nears completion
The first-ever high-speed railway connection in Southeast Asia is completed by almost two-thirds, railway developer PT Kereta...
Doubts over Indonesia’s new capital plans
Indonesia’s plan to build a new capital from scratch on Borneo island, which has already taken a...
Jakarta’s businesses open after two months in lockdown
In Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, offices, restaurants and shops were allowed to reopen on June 8 as coronavirus...
Indonesia’s government orders lockdown of Jakarta
Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered a partial shutdown of the country’s capital Jakarta after initially resisting lockdown...
Jakarta declares state of emergency, Bangkok shuts down public life
Bangkok's entertainment districts are deserted © Arno Maierbrugger
The governor of Indonesia's capital Jakarta has declared a
two-week...
Amazon to add Jakarta to its global data center network
The cloud computing and software services division of e-commerce giant Amazon, Amazon Web Services, will build a...
Indonesia to spend $40 billion for Jakarta metro extension
The Indonesian government intends to spend no less than $40 billion to extend Jakarta’s metro network by...
McKinsey tasked with assessing Indonesia’s new capital project
The Indonesian government has commissioned the local branch of US management consulting firm McKinsey & Company to...
Jakarta to get $40-billion infrastructure overhaul
Despite its plan to move Indonesia’s capital to to East Kalimantan province on Borneo, the country’s government...
President confirms relocation of Indonesian capital to Borneo
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo confirmed that the country's capital will be moved from Jakarta to Borneo, whereby...
Sinking Jakarta urgently needs giant sea wall for its protection
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Indonesia’s sinking capital Jakarta, home to about ten million people, as soon as possible...
Jakarta activists sue government over city air pollution
Residents of Indonesia's capital Jakarta on July 4 filed a lawsuit against the government over the toxic...
It’s settled: Indonesia will move capital city from Jakarta
Jakarta is overcrowded and sinking into the sea
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has approved a long-term
plan for the...
Over 190 million Indonesians go to world’s largest polls
Photo courtesy: AFP
More than 190 million Indonesians, including some two million living overseas, are set...
Indonesia’s “smart kiosk” startup raises more funds to digitise street vendors
Indonesian micro-retail tech startup Warung Pintar (“smart kiosk”) has secured new funding of $27.5 million in a Series B round participated by its existing...
Singapore lifts land to prepare for rising sea levels
Singapore is preparing early to protect itself from the consequences of climate change, something other countries in the region such as Thailand and Indonesia...
Sinking Bangkok among cities to be hardest hit by climate change
As Bangkok prepares to host climate change talks, the Global Warming and Climate Change Conference from October 4-5, experts once again remind that unchecked...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...