Managing Director of PT Robert Bosch (Bosch Indonesia), Pirmin Riegger (center), together with Head of Sales Bosch Home Appliances Indonesia, Carlo Tamaela (first left); Head of Corporate Communications & Government Relations APAC, Jay Jiang (second left); President of Bosch for Southeast Asia, Vijay Ratnaparkhe (third left); Country Sales Director of Power Tools Bosch Indonesia, Edwin Irawan (first right); Country Sales Director of Mobility Aftermarket Bosch Indonesia, Griselda Iwandi (second right); and Senior Vice President of Corporate and Mobility Marketing, Brand Management and Communication Strategy, Boris Dolkhani (third right), during the launch ceremony of the #BeresBosch campaign in Jakarta.

March 18 (Reuters) - Xi Jinping walks a diplomatic tightrope as he heads to Moscow, seeking to present China as a global peacemaker while strengthening ties with his closest ally, President Vladimir Putin, who faces criminal charges over his Ukraine war.

PARIS, March 18 (Reuters) - Refinery strikes persisted on Saturday in France and more demonstrations were taking place throughout the country amid anger at the government pushing through a rise in the state pension age without a parliamentary vote.

A $30 billion lifeline for First Republic Bank hosed down market fears about an imminent banking collapse on Friday, but a late tumble in the troubled US lender's shares showed investors were still worried about cracks in the sector.

Prabowo was seen joining Jokowi during a mass prayer event in Tabalong, South Kalimantan, before taking a trip to visit a local market in the regency.

For years, the Sicilian Mafia terrorised the Italian public and state, with its highest-profile killings that of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.

The Tunisian capital's working-class districts have suffered from decades of state neglect and poor services, and residents say the stigma attached to their neighbourhoods shuts them out of the job market.

He was speaking after meeting visiting President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

Asian markets extended a risk rally on Wall Street on Friday to end a tumultuous week that saw a brewing banking crisis send bond yields plunging while market participants sharply lowered expectations of future interest rate hikes in Western economies.

Another officer was jailed for 18 months but families of the victims said he had been treated too leniently.

"We think it would be a very good thing if the two of them talk," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters when asked about a Wall Street Journal report that the Ukrainian leader is set to talk with Xi for the first time since Chinese-ally Russia invaded.

When their pets die, many owners seek cemeteries or cremation sites to keep their loved ones in their memory, and by their side.

Television culinary personality Sisca Soewitomo recounts her long, illustrative culinary journey and shares some of her cooking tips for Ramadan

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo pitched his ambitious Nusantara capital city project to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at their annual retreat on Thursday, generating interest but little else.

Following a recent blaze at a fuel storage depot in Plumpang, North Jakarta, that killed more than a dozen people, state-owned oil and gas firm Pertamina has said it will begin work on a buffer zone it had intended to create in 2009 after a similar fire at the facility.

In the same week that the US financial authorities had again to fend off a potential crisis from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and reports that tension has risen between President Biden and Ukraine's President Volodymir Zelensky, especially over the sabotage of the Nord Stream II pipeline, China scored a massive political victory in the Middle East.

Nomo Koeswoyo of the legendary 1950s music group Koes Bersaudara died at 84.

The central bank governor says Indonesia’s banking sector has sufficient liquidity, but a negative perception of global investors may become a risk.

The number of South Koreans who tied the knot last year hit a record low, compounding looming demographic woes in a country with the world's lowest birth rate.

Family and friends of a 16-year-old British transgender girl who was stabbed to death in a park paid their last respects on Wednesday at her funeral.

With young voters making up the majority of voters and the promise of a demographic bonus looming in the near future, the younger generation is set to take the spotlight in the 2024 general election. But political parties are so out of touch with the youth that even the nation’s younger politicians struggle to engage their peers.

With its first office in the region, the US-based nonprofit hospital operator wants to expand and streamline its services in the country.

State-owned railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) is continuing repair work on a section of a train track that was left hanging in mid-air after a landslide in Empang subdistrict, Bogor, West Java, on Tuesday.

Whether sporting a red Workers' Party star on her wedding dress or rocking eco-friendly clothing, Brazil's new first lady is turning heads and making statements with her fashion choices.

Fearful Twitter posts and anxious WhatsApp exchanges coupled with online banking ease are seen as helping power a run on a pair of now-collapsed American lending institutions.

Hit by the highest inflation in more than 30 years and poised for recession, Sweden's visible signs of poverty are mounting amid rising inequality.

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has again been involved in controversy after a high school teacher criticized him on social media. When reports began to surface that the contract teacher lost his job due to his criticism, the social media-savvy politician assured his followers that he was always open to criticism.