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Salons, barbershops adapt to new normal as pandemic continues unabated

Medical tapes and single-use plastic ponchos sit atop a table at a South Jakarta beauty salon, next to a stack of ...

What's on the road ahead for tourism? Safe, responsible travel

After months of forcing herself to stay home due to travel restrictions imposed by the Indonesian government amid the ...

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ANTARA's top 10 Korean office drama series to binge-watch

Work-centric shows and movies resonate with anyone who has ever held a job. That could be a reason why drama series ...

"DETAK" app by Malang researchers detects heart disease accurately

Several researchers from the Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, have developed "DETAK," an ...

How We Do It

Wuhan to Natuna: Journalists' take on covering repatriated Indonesians

A few short weeks before the President Joko Widodo announced the first COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia, the public had ...

How We Do It

Covering a COVID-19 burial: The photojournalists' stories

In mid-March, weeks after the first two cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported in Indonesia, the ...

How We Do It

Reporting on COVID-19 mass quarantine 500 meters from Sebaru Kecil

"A day prior to our trip, I conducted an internet research, but Google threw little information on this remote, ...

'Martabak Bangka' set for May 16 release on YouTube

Months after it was launched in cinemas, Martabak Bangka will be released on YouTube at 3 p.m. local time on May 16, ...

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ANTARA's Top 10 medical dramas that will intrigue audiences

Some people are fascinated by medical dramas because they are keen on observing how our bodies function, or ...

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ANTARA's Top 10 crime-detective shows to keep audiences entertained

Some people are glued to watching television shows that run into several seasons and episodes owing to the curiosity ...

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ANTARA's Top 10 pick of adrenaline-pumping Asian horror movies

Horror, as a film genre, has existed for over a century, and such movies seek to elicit fear for entertainment ...

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ANTARA's top 10 Korean romantic comedy shows to binge-watch

Romantic comedies, or rom-coms, are a sub-genre of comedy and slice-of-life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous ...

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ANTARA's top 10 songs for standing up against haters and bullies

Bullying and hate speech have become the bane of the world today, causing much pain to scores of people. Be it ...

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Alluring dark poems of South American poets

Mama told us of a white forest in Russia: “... and we made little men out of snow and put hats we stole from ...

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From struggle, love, to humor: rich themes of Indonesian poems

Aku by Chairil Anwar is one of the Indonesian-language poems that are widely known across generations. Some ...

Weekend Stories

Poems of Rumi, Gu Cheng are still touching hearts, lives

“Lover whispers to my ear, Better to be a prey than a hunter. Make yourself My fool. ... so you may ...

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Raw emotions, blunt words fill the world of modern poetry

It is fair to say that modern poetry can be rather polarizing and easily become a center of debate among poetry ...

Exploring beauty, romanticism through poems by Shakespeare, Allan Poe

Poetic language differs from ordinary one owing to its more artistic and intense form of expression. One must delve ...

Weekend Stories

Looking thru beautifully brutal Asian action movies

“I’ve never really liked using these. They take away the rush. Squeezing a trigger, it’s like ...

Weekend Stories

Exploring the taste of Asian drama movies

Amid the surge of Hollywood dramas, films coming from the Asian region can often tend to be overlooked but despite ...