A Mozart composition could be heard in the open lounge area in a building at the Nongsa Digital Park in Batam, Riau Islands. Three young men sat around a table with laptops, phones and drinks visible, talking seriously and laughing occasionally.

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Facebook Inc on Monday laid out plans for an independent content oversight board with the power to overturn company decisions on user posts, aimed at addressing concerns over misinformation and abusive behavior on the platform.

State-owned electricity company PLN is targeting to complete 3,963 megawatts (MW) installed capacity this year to reach 7,000 MW installed capacity or 20 percent of the 35,000 MW electricity program introduced by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo four years ago.

Vale, the Brazilian company that owns the dam that burst at one of its mines killing dozens and leaving hundreds missing, is the world's biggest iron-ore miner - and its reputation has taken a harsh blow with the disaster.

TAIPEIFoxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised.

TOKYONEC Corp, KDDI Corp and Obayashi Corp have announced that they successfully carried out an operation in which the next-generation mobile communication system 5G was used to remotely control two construction machines in a cooperative manner. This field experiment was conducted in a part of the construction area of Aigawa Dam, which is under construction, in Ibaraki, Osaka from December 3 to 14, 2018.

West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has said the province needs Rp 1.2 quadrillion (US$85.10) to improve infrastructure during his five-year term.He said on Wednesday in Jakarta that the province needed alternative financial resources to finance infrastructure projects because the annual regional budget would not be able to cover the construction costs of the projects.

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.

The three largest convenience chain operators now plan to remove pornographic magazines from their store shelves across the nation by the end of August, after FamilyMart on Tuesday joined the move announced by its two rivals Seven-Eleven and Lawson the previous day.

The rapid economic development experienced across Southeast Asia has created a serious garbage problem, as growing volumes of rubbish highlight a shortage of disposal sites.