President Subianto's ambitious plan of health checks for all is one of Indonesia's biggest ever health initiatives, but not everyone is convinced it will have the desired effect. Chris McCall reports.

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The Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice, a first in Southeast Asia, will create safer, union-overseen conditions for ...

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The United States is withdrawing from the Just Energy Transition Partnership, a collaboration between richer nations to help ...

Above-target tax revenues have pushed the city-state back into fiscal surplus for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A Chinese team discovered a new bat coronavirus that poses a risk of animal-to-human transmission as it uses the same human receptor as the COVID-19 virus, a Hong Kong daily reported on Thursday ...