The country’s growing peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector has become one of the most complained about business sectors partly because of high interest rates and aggressive debt collection practices, according to a report. The report by the Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) shows online lending platforms are the third most complained about business sector while property and banking rank second and first respectively.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union has approved U.S. soybean exports to be used in the production of biofuels in an effort to boost such imports following last summer's trans-Atlantic meeting between President Donald Trump and his EU Commission counterpart Jean-Claude Juncker.

In an attempt to make Jakarta an efficient city, the capital is to have a massive amount of infrastructure built and expanded within 10 years, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has said.

YouTube said Friday it will stop recommending specious videos such as those claiming the earth is flat or promoting bogus theories about the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Osaka city and prefecture and two other prefectures in western Japan plan to apply for hosting newly legalized casino resorts, but dozens more are reluctant to do so amid concerns over public safety, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.

Japan’s economy is likely experiencing its longest expansion phase since the end of World War II amid solid domestic demand and a tightening labor market, the government said Tuesday.

CHIBA--A ceremony was held here Jan. 29 for Japan’s first partnership system that targets both sexual-minority and opposite-sex couples, the Chiba city government said.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's economy is likely to be experiencing its longest expansion phase since the end of World War II amid solid domestic demand and a tightening labor market, the government said Tuesday.In the January edition of its monthly economic report, the Cabinet Office kept its headline assessment that the economy is "recovering at a moderate pace."

Toshiba Corp. unveiled a remote-controlled robot with tongs on Monday that it hopes will be able to probe the inside of one of the three damaged reactors at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant and grip chunks of highly radioactive melted fuel.

TOKYOShipments of white goods appliances in Japan in terms of value reached the highest level in 22 years in 2018, totaling 2.45 trillion yen ($22 billion), driven by strong sales of air conditioners, an industry body said Monday.

The attorney of former Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama or BTP, Teguh Samudra, said that his client had no intention to change mind in running oil trading business despite its unstable price at markets.

France's finance minister said on Sunday a severance package for former Renault chief Carlos Ghosn, forced to resign in a financial scandal, should not be "exorbitant" and that the French state would follow the matter closely.