The 73-year-old fled the island under military escort in July after unarmed crowds stormed his official residence, following months of angry demonstrations blaming him for the nation's unprecedented economic crisis.

Suu Kyi was "sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour", a source with knowledge of the case said, adding that the Nobel laureate, 77, appeared to be in good health.

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar told delegates that countries would have to act together to tackle global warming or risk the planet ending up in “uncharted territory where no future will be sustainable”.

Prominent figures from Timor Leste’s independence movement are calling for Indonesia to lead more on the global stage, amid efforts to help the country join ASEAN.

Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr is expected to depart for Indonesia on his maiden official overseas trip, according to the Philippine foreign ministry.

Objections to language on climate targets and the war in Ukraine prevented a joint communique from being issued at the G20 ministerial meeting in Bali on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said.

Australia closed its borders for about two years during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but those strict rules and an exodus of holiday workers and foreign students left businesses struggling to find staff and keep their businesses afloat.

Her conviction by the High Court came just nine days after her husband Najib Razak, Malaysia's former premier, began serving a 12-year jail term for offences linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB financial scandal.

"The accused is found guilty of all three charges," High Court Judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan said as Rosmah sat quietly in the dock.

The two leaders agreed in a phone call in late July to explore the possibility of holding their first face-to-face meeting since Biden took office in January last year. But tensions between the two countries have increased following US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit in early August to Taiwan, a self-ruled democratic island which Beijing views as its own.

The report was immediately met by a lengthy rebuttal from China's mission to Geneva.

Rainsy, 73, was targeted with two separate complaints by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his son-in-law and deputy national police chief, Dy Vichea, over Facebook posts dating back to 2019.

The government is aiming to connect Batam to both Singapore and the neighboring Malaysian city of Johor in a move that Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto has said could accelerate development in the surrounding areas. 

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar had started the meeting by urging countries to cut emissions and prevent the planet from being pushed to a point "where no future will be sustainable".

"Mahathir has only mild symptoms of the Covid infection," an aide told AFP on condition of anonymity. 

From September 7, Japan will also raise its daily cap on the number of people allowed to enter the country to 50,000, Kishida told reporters.

The call came at a one-day meeting on the resort island of Bali, at the end of a month in which more than 1,000 people died in Pakistan from flooding blamed on climate change and a crippling drought exacerbated by a record heat wave spread across half of China.

Nearly four million people in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, were ordered to stay home until the end of the week as officials rush to curb a small virus flare-up.

Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said that the regional grouping needs to have a funding mechanism that would allow the shipment of basic food staples such as rice from one country to another in the event of a food scarcity problem in some parts of the region.

The notice follows an incident last Tuesday when a US Coast Guard vessel, the Oliver Henry, was unable to enter Solomon Islands for a routine port call because the government did not respond to a request for it to refuel and provision.

While numbers for Mondays are typically lower than for other days due to reduced testing on the weekend, the last time the nationwide tally was below six digits was on July 19.

At least 1,061 people have died since June when the seasonal rains began, but the final toll could be higher as hundreds of villages in the mountainous north have been cut off after floods washed away roads and bridges.

The U.S. Navy, confirming a Reuters report, said cruisers Chancellorsville and Antietam were carrying out the ongoing operation. Such operations usually take eight to 12 hours to complete and are closely monitored by China's military. 

It said 28 people had died in the previous 24 hours, but authorities were still trying to reach cut-off villages in the mountainous north.

After a year, the Foreign Ministry’s Taliban strategy remains unchanged, a policy that experts described as a stealthy way of providing Afghans with “intellectual foundations”.

Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan is serving as acting prime minister of Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy.

Incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the creation of the inquiry, saying the country's system of "parliamentary democracy" had been tested.

A former United Nations rapporteur on Myanmar has called on Indonesia to take a bolder stance by siding with Myanmar's opposition government – and by extension, its long-suppressed Rohingya population.

The islands' government did not immediately answer a Reuters request for comment. The Solomon Islands has had a tense relationship with the United States and its allies since striking a security pact with China in May. 

Tensions between China and the United States have soared to their highest level in decades since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit triggered Beijing's unprecedented show of force around the island earlier this month.