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Santos extends exclusivity for XRG Consortium takeover talks
Offshore Technology
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August 11, 2025
Santos has extended its exclusivity period with the XRG Consortium as discussions continue over a proposed $18.7bn (A$28.74bn) acquisition. In a statement, the Australian gas company said the consortium, led by XRG, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi...
ASEAN Celebrates The 58th Anniversary In The Hague
Diplomat magazine EU
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August 13, 2025
By Roy Lie Atjam The Embassy of Malaysia in the Netherlands shone brightly by organizing a splendid celebration for the 58th Anniversary of ASEAN, on 8 August 2025. As the ASEAN Chair for 2025 and with great anticipation for Visit Malaysia 2026,...
ASEAN, New Zealand aim for comprehensive strategic partnership
Vietnam Pictorial
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August 14, 2025
ASEAN, New Zealand aim for comprehensive strategic partnership Delegates pose for a group photo at the ceremony (Photo: VNA) The ASEAN Committee in Wellington (ACW) on August 13 marked the association’s 58th anniversary with a ceremony in New...
FCCC and UNDP partner on gender equality
Islands Business
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August 11, 2025
PACIFIC island countries have gathered in Suva, Fiji, to strengthen their capacity to measure and respond to the opportunities and challenges of digital trade. Regional countries have recognised the need to increase capacity around their digital...
Tok Pisin: Speaking PNG’s main language is more than cultural courtesy
The Interpreter
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August 11, 2025
If Australia wants to be seen as part of the Pacific family and not merely as a regional partner, it must do more than increase its development assistance or elevate diplomatic rhetoric. A crucial step is to invest in the most fundamental currency...
Toyota Lanka hosts Regional Product Exposium 2025
Daily FT
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Toyota Lanka Ltd., the authorised distributor of brand-new Toyota vehicles and a leading name in the automotive industry, successfully hosted the Toyota Regional Product Exposium 2025 at its Head Office in Wattala. The event brought together over...
Western aid cuts could derail Southeast Asia’s just energy transition, deepen regional divides: experts
Eco-Business
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August 13, 2025
A sharp drop in Western development aid threatens to derail Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition, hit its poorest nations hardest and tilt the region’s strategic ties further toward Asian powers such as China, Japan and South Korea, experts...
Singapore envoy lauds Malaysia's decisive Asean leadership
The Malaysian Star
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August 13, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR: Singapore commends Malaysia's leadership as Asean Chair in 2025 and credits Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his team for their swift and decisive actions during the recent armed conflict between Thailand and Cambodia....
Pacific Islands focus: community-driven solutions, climate in the courts and celebrating independence
Croakey Health Media
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August 11, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: Local solutions to public health issues are showcased in this month’s edition of the Pacific Islands focus column. Isabelle Zhu-Maguire, PhD candidate at the Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs, Department of...
Whining about Scottish ‘austerity’ is baseless, absurd and idiotic
The Times
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Like Christmas and birthdays, the annual GERS festival seems to arrive sooner than you think. Has a year really passed since the last edition of the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland figures was published? Why, yes it has. This year’s...
XRG Extends Diligence Period for Planned Takeover of Santos
Rigzone
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August 13, 2025
Santos Ltd. has granted a consortium led by Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. PJSC (ADNOC) more time to conduct due diligence for a potential acquisition of the Australian oil and gas company. The “process and exclusivity deed” signed June 27 between...
Debut Dream in Tashkent
The Daily Tribune - News Of Bahrain
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Hussain Almaskati TDT | Manama Email : hussainm@newsofbahrain.com Bahrain’s U20 women’s team take on hosts Uzbekistan tonight in AFC qualifying opener Bahrain’s under-20 women’s national team are set to make their AFC U20 Women’s Asian Cup...
Australia’s digital infrastructure is doing the work of deterrence
The Strategist
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August 12, 2025
When asked on Insiders about the United States’ review of AUKUS contributions, Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy made a subtle but important point: Australia’s aid and diplomatic spending, particularly in the Pacific, should count as part...
Don’t underestimate Trump the peacemaker
The Times
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Blessed are the peacemakers, the Sermon on the Mount tells us, “for they will be called the children of God”. Why so? Perhaps because peacemakers are often invisible, seen only by God. That’s not, of course, the Donald Trump approach. He doesn’t...
Constitutional Council approves Priyantha Weerasooriya as 37th IGP
Daily FT
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The Constitutional Council has approved President Anura Kumara Disanayake’s recommendation to appoint Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasooriya as the 37th IGP of the country. This decision was made when the Constitutional...
Killing the Witness: Gaza’s Journalists and the Global Blueprint of Disappearance
Common Dreams
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August 12, 2025
On the night of August 10, 2025, the air over Gaza City hung heavy with dust and the steady thrum of generators. In a modest press tent pitched outside the bomb-scarred shell of al-Shifa Hospital, Al Jazeera’s last reporting team in the city...
BlackLine Studio360: The Platform for Future-Readiness
CFO Dive
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2026 Cebu City projects: Archival eyes billions in collectibles to fund them
Cebu Daily News
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August 12, 2025
Cebu City Nestor Archival Sr. | [FILE PHOTO] CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Nestor Archival Sr. is banking on billions of pesos in uncollected taxes and a faster, friendlier business permitting process to bankroll his administration’s...
AI-driven tobacco control in ASEAN requires unified data standards
The Interpreter
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August 12, 2025
Tobacco use remains a leading cause of preventable death in Southeast Asia, home to over 120 million smokers. While AI can support smart efforts in controlling tobacco export and use, it is only possible if the region has a standardised data entry...
Việt Nam chairs 15th consultation meeting of IAI Task Force-ASEAN partners
Vietnam News Agency
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JAKARTA — Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to ASEAN Ambassador Tôn Thị Ngọc Hương chaired the 15th Consultation Meeting of the ASEAN Integration Initiative (IAI) Task Force-ASEAN Partners in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 11. The meeting brought...