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 ...

While textile-to-textile recycling using post-industrial waste has grown in recent years, the process of converting post-consumer garments into new fibers hasn’t quite gotten off the ground in the ...

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 ...

As heap utilization approaches 100% and the inevitable OutOfMemoryError threatens to crash the production JVM, DevOps professionals who tend real-time Java ...

Starting the declutter process by sorting through a full shoe collection and making the first decisions. A practical step toward a more organized and intentional wardrobe. #Declutter #ShoeCollection ...

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, ...

New Delhi: India generates about 7.25 million tonnes of textile waste annually, but lacks adequate collection, sorting and recycling capacity, resulting in a $9.4 billion loss of value each year, ...