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Activists hold pictures depicting Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka during a protest against their policies in Jakarta on Oct. 28.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 10, 2026
Fate of Indonesia’s vice president hangs in the balance as lawmakers mull probe
The consideration comes amid a widening political rift between the vice president’s influential father and President Prabowo Subianto.
The Nongsa Digital Park (NDP) area, a hub for artificial intelligence (AI)-based data center and digital infrastructure development, in Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia, on Nov. 3.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 8, 2026
Can’t cook or shower: Indonesians take aim at data centers
Frustration is bubbling over in Indonesia and Malaysia — especially in regions bordering Singapore that are seen as a prime location for new tech facilities.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto delivers his remarks while leading a plenary cabinet meeting at the Presidential Palace complex in Jakarta on Oct. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 6, 2026
Prabowo wiretap spills top Indonesia rivalry into public
The mobilization of thousands of military personnel this week has intensified speculation about a widening rift between Prabowo Subianto and Joko Widodo.
Indonesian senior legal affairs minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra (center) addresses a press conference regarding those arrested over the alleged wiretapping of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, in Jakarta on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 4, 2026
Indonesia arrests chief of staff and top policemen for alleged wiretapping of president
The suspects are accused of illegally tapping phones of the president, journalists, politicians, business people and more from 2025 to this year.
Container ships and bulk carriers sit at anchor just beyond Singapore's Marina Bay Sands hotel in February 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2026
The promise and peril of Singapore’s vulnerable prosperity
Singapore grew rich servicing the immense volume of global trade squeezed through the choke point of its narrow strait.
An unlicensed mining operation in Toboali, on the southern shores of the island of Bangka, Indonesia, in April 2021
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2026
How to improve global mineral governance
Global South countries should work together to ensure that mineral supply chains deliver equitable economic benefits and protect the environment.
A man uses a tree branch to try to extinguish a peatland fire in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, on Oct. 22.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 30, 2026
Fire pollution killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September, report says
The same month, about 57.8 million people in Indonesia were inhaling unhealthy to hazardous air, according to a new study.
Indonesian soldiers, tasked with fighting forest and land fires, celebrate as it rains in Banjar Baru, South Kalimantan province, on Wednesday, following months of forest and land fires.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 30, 2026
Indonesia rain set to ease toxic haze in Singapore and Malaysia
The choking haze from Indonesia’s worst fire season in years has cloaked local towns and drifted across neighboring countries for weeks.
Volunteers carry portable oxygen tanks through dense haze to deliver medical assistance to affected residents in the city of Palangkaraya, Indonesia, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 27, 2026
Borneo struggles to breathe as wildfires fill the air with toxic smog
More than 300,000 people in seven provinces were laid low by respiratory tract infections from August to October, Indonesia’s health ministry says.
The Singapore skyline is shrouded in smog due to wildfires raging in Indonesia on Oct. 15.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2026
El Nino fires test limits of Southeast Asia’s cloud-seeding bet
As countries spend more trying to alter erratic rainfall patterns with few lasting results, the question of the payoff rises for such investments.
A charred metallic fragment, suspected to be rocket debris, at an oil palm plantation in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan Province on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 20, 2026
Near miss: Indonesia probes crash of suspected Chinese rocket fragment
The debris was found on Monday morning by a plantation worker in Indonesian Borneo, after residents reported hearing a loud bang the previous evening.
Shoppers at a supermarket on the outskirts of Buenos Aires earlier this year. The world's poorest consumers are being hit the hardest as food prices rise in many countries across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Oct 19, 2026
Global food inflation is expected to intensify as supply shocks pile up
The world’s poorest consumers are being hit the hardest as food prices rise in many countries across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
Trucks loaded with oil palm fruit bunches outside a mill in Sanggau, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia, on Oct. 2.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2026
El Nino-powered drought leaves Indonesian palm farmers high and dry as river recedes
Palm oil mills accounting for roughly half of West Kalimantan province’s processing capacity have been affected by the transportation disruptions.
Motorists are pictured on the road to the Central Business District in Singapore on Friday, as haze from wildfires in Indonesia shrouds the region.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 16, 2026
Singapore probing firms over haze-causing Indonesian fires
The city-state and neighboring Malaysia have been blanketed for weeks by toxic smog from a severe wildfire season in Indonesia.
Motorcyclists in Palangkaraya, Indonesia, on Wednesday amid thick haze from forest and land fires in the region
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 15, 2026
Haze turns Indonesia skies orange and shuts schools in East Timor
Fires burning for months in Indonesia have sent smoke across the region, and East Timor began a three-day school closure prompted by the haze.
People try to extinguish a wildfire in Indonesia's South Kalimantan province on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2026
Singapore can fix Southeast Asia’s haze, if it wants to
The way this is talked about in Singapore, the region’s wealthiest country, the whole situation is an act of God and no one knows who is responsible.
A rescuer and a veterinarian with the YIRARI wildlife foundation carry a rescued orangutan in an area of a palm-oil plantation affected by wildfires, in the village of Laman Satong village, in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, on Sept. 30.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 11, 2026
Indonesia releases eight orangutans rescued from fires to protected forest
Indonesian authorities and YIARI rescued 46 orangutans from threats of fires between August and Friday.
Rescuers evacuating a mother orangutan and her baby trapped by smoke from forest and land fires in a palm oil plantation area in Pelang village, Ketapang, West Kalimantan, on Sept. 18.
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Oct 9, 2026
Walking through flames: Orangutan rescued in Indonesia fires
Dozens of orangutan have been rescued from wildfires burning across parts of Sumatra and Borneo in recent months.
Mount Anak Krakatau billows smoke from its crater and lava flows send up clouds of steam as they reach the sea, as seen from the waters of the Sunda Strait on Sept. 12
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 2, 2026
New islands appear after Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano erupts
The islands were spotted in satellite images of the water-filled caldera in which Anak Krakatau stands.
The KL Tower and other buildings shrouded by haze in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 21. Schools in neighboring Singapore have been closed and respiratory complaints have been skyrocketing, but existing legal frameworks offer little recourse to tackles transboundary air pollution.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2026
Indonesia’s neighbors powerless as smoke from monthlong wildfires shuts schools
Respiratory complaints have been skyrocketing, but existing legal frameworks offer little recourse to tackles transboundary air pollution.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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