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The Indonesian Financial Services Authority (FSA) has revised the credit growth in 2019 down to the range 8-10 percent from the range of 12-14 percent it forecast in the middle of the year.

The 30th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) kicked off on November 21 night at the Capitol Theatre with the Singapore premiere of the film Wet Season, marking a bountiful line-up of events ahead.

The Indonesian government has set an economic growth target of 5.6 percent in 2020, up from the 5.3 percent targeted this year, said Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto.

The annual international conference on Saemaul Undong in 2019 (New Village or New Community movement) under the theme of "Finding a new direction for global Saemaul development in a rapidly changing global environment" took place.

Strong earthquakes occurred in Laos and Thailand on November 21 morning, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has emphasised the need to protect the rights of states that are not party to negotiations between ASEAN and China for a Code of Conduct in the East Sea.

Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Vu Dai Thang led a Vietnamese delegation to the 23rd Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Ministerial Conference that took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from November 17-18.

The European Union (EU) has launched the civil society component of a 24 million EUR (about 26 million USD) programme to support Sustainable Use of Peatland and Haze Mitigation in ASEAN (SUPA).

Indonesia, having the sixth-largest bauxite reserves in the world, sees the potential of bauxite downstream could reach 13 billion USD next year from the current 9 billion USD.

The ASEAN Committee in Mexico, comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, joined hands with authorities of Mexico’s Yucatan state to arrange a business forum in Merida city on November 15.

A 5.9-magnitude aftershock shook Indonesia’s North Maluku province on November 15 after a strong quake hit the area in the early morning of the same day.

A joint anti-terrorism actual-troop drill of member countries of ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus (ADMM+) kicked off in Guilin, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on November 13.