Indonesia lost the iconic figure of the Doraemon cartoon character voice actor, Nurhasana Iskandar, who passed away yesterday, Sunday, July 12. The news of Nurhasanah’s death was first confirmed by her children through her Instagram page yesterday evening. Nurhasanah died at the age of 62 years. Dana Robbyansyah, Nurhasanah’s son, said that his late mother had long suffered from a …

Thousands of online or online motorcycle taxi drivers, or called ojek online (ojol) who are members of the Unified West Java Online Driver (DJOB) group took action in front of the Bandung City Hall on Monday,  July 13, demanding that the Bandung City Government immediately permit passenger transport services. Quoted from CNNIndonesia.com, the masses began to gather at Jalan Wastukencana …

Chinese health officials said a herdsman in Inner Mongolia was believed to be diagnosed with bubonic plague, a reminder of how even though the planet is fighting a pandemic triggered by a novel virus, old risks persist. The Bayannur City Health Commission said the plague was detected in the herdsman on Sunday and he was treated in a hospital and …

MANILA – Solicitor General Jose Calida praised the House of representatives for the decision to kill the franchise application of ABS-CBN. With the Solicitor General paraphrasing one of lines of Frank Sinatra’s most popular songs, telling the network: “And now, the end has come.”, the House franchise committee voted 70-11 on Friday to reject ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal. According to Calida, …

MANILA – The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) on Monday has suspended the ABS-CBN Corp trading of shares to give time to the network to inform investors on how the denial of franchise renewal application could affect the company’s business moving forward. The PSE said in an advisory that the local bourse have suspended the Philippine Depositary Receipts (PDRs) of the …

The legally needed public hearing on the 18.7-billion-baht project was conducted on Saturday by the Southern Border Provinces Administration Center (SBPAC), in Songkhla province’s Chana Wittaya School district of Chana. The SBPAC is responsible for directing the process. Officials also recently toured the homes of at least eight individuals who had protested a coal-fired power plant in the South in …

The creators of the StartDee online education app, a project spearheaded by former Democrat Party politician Parit “Itim” Wacharasindhu, hope to see it become a “Netflix of education” which provides quality and affordable educational content to Thai students. In view of this, their dream is to use technology to include an alternate learning tool that could supplement school research. This …

With the emergence of a number of controversies, the Pre-employment Card Program was suspended. However, the government will resume the Pre-employment Card Program by revising new rules. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo finally revised the implementing regulations for the Pre-employment Card Program as stipulated in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 76 of 2020 concerning Amendments to Perpres 36/2020 concerning Work Competency Development …

There was a video of Vice President Ma’ruf Amin’s official car where the staff filling up with retail gasoline using jerry cans on the roadside. This video went viral on Facebook social media and group messages on WhatsApp. In the nine-second video, several people dressed in batik were pouring gasoline with jerry cans which were streamed using a hose. This …

Indonesia is moving a data privacy regulation ahead in several of the largest e-commerce firms after a string of high-profile data attacks in recent months. The bill-expected before the end of the year-would make it unlawful to gather data from users without consent and allow companies to warn buyers within days of learning that their identities, addresses and other details …