Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Tuesday (May 26, 2026).

A door-to-door waste collector pushes his cart in front of a house in Jakarta Indonesia, on May 4. BAY ISMOYO/AFP Jakarta now requires households to sort their trash for composting and recycling, and ...

The name Samtama is short for Sampah Tanggung Jawab Bersama (Waste Management is a Shared Responsibility), according to local community figure Mohamad Yakub, 60, reflecting the neighbourhood ...

News organizations are racing to add puzzles and games to their digital offerings, hoping to replicate the success of a strategy The New York Times has been quietly perfecting for years -- and is now ...

Bali is grappling with a waste crisis as landfill restrictions have disrupted garbage collection, leaving rubbish accumulating in the streets of the Indonesian tourist hotspot. At the centre of the ...

The landfill, in operation since 1984, typically handles 1,000-1,200 tonnes of waste per day, according to The Bali Sun. It is set to shut completely from 1 August after inspections found the waste ...

Workers sorting waste on April 17, 2026, at the Tahura integrated waste processing facility in Denpasar, Bali. The local administration has continued to increase the facility’s processing capacity, ...

The waste is moved by a conveyor belt to a larger machine, where it is separated into organic and plastic materials ...

Mina has been playing video games for her whole life. She hails from Virginia in the USA, and she loves cozy games, FPSs, MMOs, and puzzle games. She lives in Richmond with her husband and her kitty, ...

National Harbor, Md. — Polypropylene is just as big in packaging as PET but it is recycled at a fraction of PET. Only 8 percent of 1.2 million tons of post-consumer PP is recycled. But getting this ...