NNA – Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta scored a landslide victory in East Timor’s presidential election, according to preliminary results published Wednesday by the election secretariat. The 72-year-old secured 397,145 votes, or 62.09 percent, against incumbent Francisco “Lu-Olo” Guterres’ 242,440, or 37.91 percent, the secretariat’s website showed after all ballots were
Bank Indonesia (BI), has revised the projected figure for the country’s economic growth this year, to the range between 4.5 and 5.3 percent, BI’s Governor, Perry Warjiyo said, yesterday. “This figure is slightly lower than the previous estimate of between 4.7 and 5.5 percent,” Warjiyo told a virtual press conference.
Washington/Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is calling for a global Food Import Financing Facility (FIFF) to help poorer countries deal with surging prices as a result of the war in Ukraine. The FIFF, which is also aimed at increasing global agricultural production and productivity in a
Central Jakarta, Kominfo – The Ministry of Communication and Information noted that until now there are still 226 areas that have not been reached by analog television broadcasts (TV), ahead of the implementation of phase one of the analogue switch off (ASO) program to stop broadcasting on April 30, 2022. Director of Media
Diponegoro University (Undip) Chancellor Prof. Dr. Yos Johan Utama, SH, M. Hum., has just inaugurated the Undip Abdurrahman Mosque which is located next to the Widya Puraya Rectorate Building, Undip Tembalang campus on Tuesday (19/04) at 17.00 WIB. The inauguration ceremony was also attended by the Vice Chancellors, Chair of the Academic Senate,
Senior leaders of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom walked out of a meeting of the Group of 20 major economies on Wednesday in protest of the G-20’s decision to allow Russian officials, including Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, to participate. The U.S. and other members of the G-20