Day: December 20, 2022

US Lawmakers Back Boeing 737 MAX Certification Deadline Waiver

WASHINGTON — Boeing won backing from Congress early on Tuesday to lift a looming deadline imposing a new safety standard for modern cockpit alerts for two new versions of the U.S. plane maker’s best-selling 737 MAX aircraft. The company had been heavily lobbying for months to persuade lawmakers to waive the

UN chief calls for climate action

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for climate action and announced that he will convene a Climate Ambition Summit to galvanize it, Trend reports citing Xinhua. “Climate change is another area where good news can be hard to find. We are still moving in the wrong direction,” he told an end-of-year press

Import of 500,000 tons of rice will hurt farmers: PKB

The National Awakening Party (PKB) has criticized the State Logistics Agency’s (Bulog’s) decision to import 500 thousand tons of rice, saying the move will hurt local farmers. “The importation of hundreds of thousands of tons of rice will no doubt damage the price of farmer’s rice. This involves the life

Car-free night to return to Jakarta on New Year’s Eve

The Jakarta provincial authority will enforce a car-free night in Central Jakarta’s Jenderal Sudirman and MH Thamrin boulevards on New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2022) to ease traffic congestion. “We will enforce the car-free night policy (at the two roads) from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Western Indonesian Time (UTC

Jakarta’s New Year night celebrations spread out at seven locations

The Jakarta provincial government has spread out the locations for New Year’s night celebrations at seven spots, with the event’s highlight in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) to reduce crowding. These seven locations are in Central Jakarta, centered at Thamrin 10, North Jakarta, and West Jakarta at each region’s mayor

AP II sets up monitoring posts at 20 airports

State-run airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II (AP II) has set up Christmas and New Year monitoring posts at 20 airports, which will remain operational from December 19, 2022, to January 3, 2023. The posts have been assigned key performance indicators (KPIs) in the operational and services areas, president director