In this file photo taken on November 13, 2019 the Disney+ logo is seen on the backdrop for the World Premiere of 'The Mandalorian' at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood.

Disney lays off 7,000 as streaming subscribers decline

Disney said it was laying off 7,000 employees, as CEO Bob Iger announced a reorganization of the company he returned to lead last year.

3 years ago

Academia premium

Depoliticization of deforestation-free label to avoid trade war

Palm oil producing countries, notably Indonesia and Malaysia, which together account for almost 90 percent of the global output, should step up their cooperation to block the European Union legislation against deforestation, scheduled to be adopted by the Council and the European Parliament within the next few months. ...

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Markets

Singaporean start-ups, industries explore development opportunities in Nongsa Digital Park

In 2017, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo outlined his vision for Batam to serve as a “digital bridge” connecting Singapore to the digital economy of Indonesian cities. ...

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Tech start-up apps appear on a screen on Aug 2, 2021.

Academia premium

Navigating the start-up winter: How corporate governance can save the day

Founders of start-ups need to strike a balance in establishing good corporate governance but still allowing for agility and swift responses in a challenging environment.

3 years ago

(from left to right) Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson) and Danny Nucci (Fabrizio) in 'Titanic' (1997).

Entertainment

Jack could have survived, says Cameron as 'Titanic' re-released 25 years on

Fans insist Jack could have survived the icy Atlantic waters after the ocean liner sank, if only he had shared an improvised raft with Kate Winslet's Rose.

3 years ago

Workers collect plastic waste as they clean up Kuta Beach near Denpasar, Bali, on Jan. 6.

Academia

How much plastic are we ingesting?

Measuring microplastics in humans is challenging, but researchers already have preliminary figures.

3 years ago

Editorial

Press freedom and its enemies

In Indonesia, as in many other parts of the world, media freedom continues to be under assault from many quarters.

3 years ago

A Susi Air Cessna C208B Grand Caravan aircraft, the same model which crashed in Papua on Jan. 7, 2022, prepares for take off at Halim airport in Jakarta on Sept. 10, 2011. An airplane from the frontier airline carrier was torched by rebels and its passengers abducted after safely landing on Paro airstrip in Nduga regency, Highland Papua on Feb. 7, 2023.

Archipelago premium

TNI, police launch joint operation to rescue ‘missing’ pilot in Papua

Authorities have deployed a joint team to evacuate a foreign pilot after they were allegedly taken hostage by separatist fighters in the Papuan highlands on Tuesday.

3 years ago

Inferno: The 'Ten courts of hell' diorama depicts the detail of the punishments in the afterlife awaiting the souls of evildoers. (JP/Yohana Belinda)

Art & Culture premium

Asia's 'Alice in Wonderland' villa teaches children about karma

Aw Boon Haw, one of the original 'crazy rich Asians', created Haw Par Villa to teach people the value of good karma.

3 years ago

A general view of the city of Skopje, seen through polluted air on Jan. 30, 2019, one of the most polluted cities in Europe.

Academia

With cash infusion, developing nations boost sun-dimming research

Stepping into a "minefield" about how to slow global warming, scientists in developing nations have won new funds to study whether dimming sunshine by mimicking volcanic eruptions can be a sufficiently safe way to temporarily cool a hotter planet.

3 years ago

Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Authority head Bambang Susantono speaks to business executives in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 17.

Economy premium

Investors eye new capital but stay on sidelines ahead of elections

The Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Authority reported increasing interest from firms looking to put funds into the project, but few are willing to commit ahead of the 2024 election.

3 years ago

The Supreme Court building in Central Jakarta.

Politics premium

Critics demand better screening for Supreme Court justice candidates

After recent graft scandals involving Supreme Court justices that severely undermined the integrity of the country's highest court, critics have demanded better screening procedures for recruiting new justices to ensure clean and high-quality appointees.

3 years ago

Traffic flows along a Jakarta thoroughfare on July 26, 2022.

Economy premium

Slow investment growth taints Indonesia's strong GDP report

Slow growth in gross fixed capital formation points to problems in the real sector, analysts say, though they disagree on how big a problem that is.

3 years ago

Search and rescue personnel look for survivors buried beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras on Feb. 7, 2023, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the city in southeast Turkey. The first quake was followed nine hours later by a 7.5-magnitude tremor near the northern border of Syria, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Middle East and Africa

Embassy reports first Indonesian deaths in Turkey quakes

A family of three, which included a Balinese woman and her dual-national infant, were among the more than 11,200 people killed in the two massive earthquakes that decimated parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria.

3 years ago

An official charges an electric car in Nusa Dua, Bali.

Companies premium

No US EV company has submitted an investment application: Govt

The Investment Ministry said on Wednesday that no United States electric vehicle (EV) company had submitted an investment application to the ministry, despite the government’s efforts to attract EV production to Indonesia.

3 years ago

Manchester United fans react to their players after the English Premier League football match between Brentford and Manchester United at Gtech Community Stadium in London on August 13, 2022. Bentford won the game 4-0.

Sports

Qatari investors set to bid for Manchester United

The report described the investors as "a group of private, high-wealth individuals" from Qatar, which hosted the 2022 World Cup.

3 years ago

This picture taken on January 18, 2023 shows service robots developed by Tokyo-based robotics firm ZMP (L to R); a pair of single-seat mobility robots RakuRo, security robot PATORO, and delivery robot DeliRo at the company's service station in Tokyo.
“Excuse me, coming through,“ a four-wheeled robot chirps as it dodges pedestrians on a street outside Tokyo, part of an experiment businesses hope will tackle labour shortages and rural isolation.

Science & Tech

Japan rolls out 'humble and lovable' delivery robots

Proponents hope the machines could eventually help elderly people in depopulated rural areas get access to goods, while also addressing a shortage of delivery workers in a country with chronic labour shortages.

3 years ago

Villages stand amid forested areas in Penajam district, North Penajam Paser regency, East Kalimantan, where the nation’s new capital city will be built.

Society premium

Public health for new capital city needs careful planning, say experts

Experts have urged that public health infrastructure should be top of mind among relevant state institutions during the development of the nation's new capital city.

3 years ago

Commuters drive past the National Stock Exchange (NSE) building in Mumbai, India, on Feb. 24, 2022.

Markets

Asian markets mostly up but rate worries keep optimism in check

Most Asian markets rose Wednesday but traders remained on edge after Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell reiterated that inflation was coming down but interest rates might need to go higher than expected to get it under control.

3 years ago

A visitor looks at a screen showing an excerpt of a film during the opening of the European exhibition of Harry Potter in Vienna, Austria on December 16, 2022.

Entertainment

Harry Potter video game gets bumper sales despite LGBTQ backlash

Many accused her of transphobia for putting the emphasis on biological sex over notions of gender. She denies the charge.

3 years ago

Branching staghorn coral grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia, on October 25, 2019.

Asia & Pacific

Australia denies permission for coal mine near Great Barrier Reef

The Central Queensland Coal owned mine is in the Styx Coal Basin, just off the coast of central Queensland.

3 years ago

Rescuers carry out search operations through the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, on February 7, 2023, a day after a 7,8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkey.

Middle East and Africa

Children pulled from rubble as Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 8,300

For two days and nights since the 7.8 magnitude quake an impromptu army of rescuers have worked in freezing temperatures to find those still entombed among ruins that pockmark several cities either side of the border.

3 years ago

US President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol on February 07, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Americas

Biden warns US will act on China after balloon downing

In the annual speech to assembled lawmakers, many of whom have pressed for a hard line on China, Biden called for US investment in the military, technology and alliances to take on the country widely viewed as the chief US competitor.

3 years ago

This handout picture released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on May 8, 2018 shows an artist's impression of the exiled asteroid 2004 EW95, the first carbon-rich asteroid confirmed to exist in the Kuiper Belt and a relic of the primordial Solar System. This curious object likely formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and must have been transported billions of kilometres from its origin to its current home in the Kuiper Belt, according to the European Southern Observatory.

Science & Tech

Small asteroid 'serendipitously' detected using James Webb telescope

The asteroid measuring between 300 and 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length is the smallest object observed to date using the telescope, the US space agency NASA said Monday.

3 years ago

Tips from abroad: International students share their mantra in dealing with the rising costs of living abroad in an era of widespread inflation. (Pexels/Karolina Grabowska)

Community

Extra work, less fun: Indonesian students talk surviving inflation abroad

Indonesian students abroad share how to manage their finances while readying for inflation.

3 years ago

This aerial view shows residents searching for victims and survivors amid the rubble of collapsed buildings following an earthquake in the village of Besnia near the twon of Harim, in Syria's rebel-held noryhwestern Idlib province on the border with Turkey, on Feb. 6, 2022.

Middle East and Africa premium

Indonesia ‘stands ready’ to assist Turkey, Syria

Indonesia said it was prepared to provide assistance to regions affected by a series of deadly earthquakes that rocked parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday, government officials have said.

3 years ago

A person stands in a CoHive space in this promotional photo from 2019.

Tech premium

CoHive bankruptcy sends chills through surviving coworking businesses

Coworking businesses have been bleeding throughout the pandemic, with the recent bankruptcy of one of the dominant players CoHive being a symptom of what experts saw as the industry’s prevailing condition in 2023.

3 years ago

People warm up around a fire following an earthquake in Hatay, Turkey on February 7, 2023.

Middle East and Africa

Rescuers dig through rubble as Turkey-Syria quake death toll passes 7,800

As the scale of the disaster became ever more apparent, the death toll looked likely to rise considerably. One UN official said thousands of children may have died.

3 years ago

A China Coast Guard vessel patrols at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on April 5, 2017.

Editorial

Code of Conduct, at least

At least now ASEAN and China have a formal forum to defuse tension in the resources-rich sea. Both sides have committed to keeping the conflict at a manageable level because the South China Sea is one of the world’s busiest sea lanes.

3 years ago

President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo (left) briefed reporters after inaugurating three sections of Balikpapan-Samarinda toll road in East Kalimantan on Tuesday, December 17, 2019. The three sections of the toll road, which span 58.7 kilometers, are the first toll road in operation in Kalimantan. The government hoped to finish the remaining two sections of the toll road to fully connect Samarinda and Balikpapan by April next year, Jokowi said.

Opinion

Analysis: IKN offers 'oversubscribing' as part of business gambling

The Nusantara Capital City (IKN) Authority has claimed huge investment interest from the private sector to invest in the capital city within the next two years, but businesses said they were actually taking a gamble by grabbing land in the capital city and would not really invest until a new government was formed after next year’s elections.

3 years ago

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