JAKARTA: Indonesia’s president has decided to move the capital of the world’s fourth most populous country away from the crowded main island of Java, but has yet to finalise a new location, the planning minister said yesterday. President Joko Widodo’s decision comes less than two weeks after private pollsters said
BENGKULU (Indonesia): Floods sparked by torrential rains have killed 29 people in Indonesia with a dozen more still missing, officials said yesterday, marking the latest calamity for a disaster-prone nation. Landslides and floods are common, especially during the monsoon season between October and April, when rains lash the vast Southeast
OUAGADOUGOU (Burkina Faso): Gunmen killed four worshippers and a pastor in the first jihadist attack on a church in Burkina Faso, security and local sources said yesterday. Sunday’s attack took place in the small northern town of Silgadji near Djibo, the capital of Soum province, and two others were reported
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean activist was yesterday fined for questioning the independence of the judiciary on Facebook, the latest case to highlight what critics say is the country’s heavy-handed approach towards dissent. While it is wealthy and modern in many ways, tightly-controlled Singapore is regularly criticised by rights groups for restricting
The Central Intelligence Agency opened its own account on Instagram Thursday with a picture of a desk of mysteries teased by the children’s game prompt “I spy with my little eye.” The photo tempts with intrigues and adventure: a wig suggesting disguises, maps of China and the Gulf, foreign banknotes,
Twitter users in the United States are younger, better educated and more left-leaning than the general population, a survey showed Wednesday. The Pew Research Center study found those using the micro-blogging platform are more likely to come from higher-income brackets but that their gender and racial or ethnic makeup is
SHANGHAI: Japan’s world number one Kento Momota roared back from a game down to defeat Shi Yuqi of China and retain his Badminton Asia Championships title yesterday. On a red-letter day for Japan in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Akane Yamaguchi became the first Japanese to win the women’s crown
SHANGHAI: Japan’s world number one Kento Momota roared back from a game down to defeat Shi Yuqi of China and retain his Badminton Asia Championships title yesterday. On a red-letter day for Japan in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Akane Yamaguchi became the first Japanese to win the women’s crown
COLOMBO (Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic leader yesterday condemned the Easter attacks as “an insult to humanity” as the tense, grief-stricken country marked a week since suicide bombers hit three churches and three luxury hotels. The Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, held a private mass after cancelling all
PARIS (France): Later this year, the Louvre in Paris will host an exhibition of masterpieces by the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci to mark his death 500 years ago in France. But the work that in recent months has been the intense focus of scrutiny by the media and da
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