Kuala Terengganu MP Datuk Ahmad Amzad Hashim has apologised for wrongly claiming that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ...

PAS' Kuala Terengganu MP Datuk Ahmad Amzad Hashim has apologised to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim after claiming that the batik shirt worn by the premier while presenting the 13th Malaysia ...

Having a ball in Bali? Obama gives lukewarm reaction to wearing traditional Indonesian shirt on visit to southeast Asia By LAURIE WHITWELL FOR THE DAILY MAIL Updated: 15:07 EDT, 18 November 2011 ...

President Obama joined world leaders for a gala dinner in Cambodia Monday with “strongman” Prime Minister Hun Sen. The leaders donned traditional Batik shirts for the occasion. According to ...

Batik is an Indonesian technique for dying a cloth. Musk's choice of attire was all the rage as he’s mostly seen donning a suit or black t-shirts during his business trips or at his company’s ...

Some of Mandela’s batik shirts were designed by Indonesian batik maestro Iwan Tirta. In South Africa, the batik came to be known as the Madiba shirt.

Mandela, who died on Thursday, was first introduced to the costume in the 1990s after he was given a batik shirt as a souvenir during a visit to Indonesia shortly after his installation as South ...

Sitting in the dark, wearing a traditional Indonesian batik shirt and surrounded by candles, Elon Musk offered a vision for the future. Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk offers a vision of the ...

But he was back in a few minutes just to show off his new attire: a traditional, Indonesian batik shirt. “Look at my batik!,” he told Philippine media.

In South Africa, the batik shirt is now known as a "Madiba shirt" after its most famous wearer. Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.

The batik shirt was invented as a formal non-Western shirt for men in Indonesia in the 1960s and was adopted by the new African leaders, and later on, Nelson Mandela.