JAKARTA – Despite a vast labor force, local businesses continue to struggle with hiring and retaining top talent. As the government looks to prohibit arbitrary practices like withholding employees’ ...

SEOUL – South Korea’s infants and toddlers are entering day care institutions at a younger age and spending more time there, ...

Garment export volume to the destination also rose by a strong 24.64 per cent, along with a 3.55 per cent increase in unit ...

The three nations announced on Sunday that they have agreed to accelerate negotiations on their trilateral free trade agreement and enhance cooperation in supply chain management and export controls, ...

MANILA – Impunity continues to be a scourge across the world. Despite global and regional averages for conflict and violence remaining “relatively stable,” raw data from key indicators point to an ...

NEW YORK – Two persimmon saplings, which were grown from the seeds of a tree that was exposed to the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, were planted at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday ...

Headaches and Cigarettes: Conviction of North Korean spies reveals playbook of codes, signals The North Korean spy agency sent its instructions to the South Korean network online using steganography, ...

BANGKOK – Amidst the tense situation on the Thai border with Myanmar and Cambodia, due to the Thai government’s crackdown on call-centre gangs, the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in the Bokeo ...

JAKARTA – Indonesia has recorded a historically low poverty rate, according to the latest survey conducted by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), but inequality has worsened slightly and remains particularly ...

JAKARTA – The government is tightening regulations on right-to-cultivate (HGU) permits for oil palm plantations, requiring applicants to allocate 20 percent of their land to local smallholders before ...

JAKARTA – Indonesia is making a big splash for this year’s haj season, as it has done in previous years. Sending off the world’s largest number of pilgrims, President Prabowo Subianto launched ...

MANILA – The Philippines and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to push back against foreign aggression and uphold peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, as President Marcos welcomed Japanese ...