The price of cooking oil in Indonesia has been on the rise since 2021. According to Detikcom, the price of packaged cooking oils reached IDR17,300/kg in October 2021. The rise of global CPO price was...
The last time I visited Shanghai in 2018, the city was alive. I spent days treading its bustling streets, hand-in-hand with my grandparents. As night fell, Shanghai’s late-night barbeques and river...
In late January, Indonesian celebrity couple Anang and Ashanty made headlines when they launched ASIX, their own NFT token. Prior to the launch, they promoted its presale on their 460k-subscriber...
On February 22, 2022, the issue of the Protection Bill in Iran, which aims to apply regulation to the internet, came to the fore. The bill, according to Iranian officials, is to support web users,...
For an American-born Chinese girl like me, each rare trip back to my parents’ hometown is a blessing. Not just because of the warm waft of steamed dumplings mixed with the rumble of traditional...
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd J. Austin III was in the island kingdom of Bahrain over the weekend where he, as the New York Times succinctly put it, "faced tough questions about how Arab allies were...
The images of the events after the Taliban seized Kabul and other cities in Afghanistan have crossed the world. In a few hours, the lives of the country's residents changed. Many tried to flee...
Energy-rich Kazakhstan is one of Russia's most important allies. The Central Asian nation, however, has closer ties with the West than any other country in the region. Is Russia’s influence in...
Iran's recent military exercises on its northern border with Azerbaijan (replete with tanks, artillery guns, and helicopters firing at targets) raised eyebrows in Baku. Shortly after the Iranian...
On the night of September 11, 2021, explosions were heard at Erbil International Airport in the eponymous capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan. It was the latest in a series of rocket and drone attacks...
