Tag: Asia

African ministers and senior policymakers will be zipping across Asia for the next two weeks to attend a series of so-called "Africa+1 events" that began in Japan last weekend and continue in Indonesia early next week and then on to Beijing for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ...

The clouds still hadn’t left the sky on Wednesday morning in Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta, where millions were preparing to elect their new president and vice president. Parts of the city were flooded due to heavy rains on the previous night, causing some polling stations to ...

Prabowo Subianto, an ex-military commander and former son-in-law of Indonesian dictator Suharto, is finally on his way to the presidency. During the campaign season, Prabowo drummed up the promise that he would continue Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s policies, including the promise of nickel-for-battery developments. Lo ...