Hot cross buns are an Easter specialty with a light, enriched crumb that’s studded with currants and flavored with a gentle mix of warm spices and a hint of citrus. While some versions are drizzled with icing, we prefer a traditional semi-sweet, flour-based “cross” etched across the top.
He also invited Chinese businesspeople to invest more in Indonesia. Two-way trade exceeded $147.8 billion last year, growing by 6.1%.Li said for nine consecutive years, China has been Indonesia’s largest trading partner, and its Belt and Road cooperation program has seen substantive progress, including nickel smelting plants and
, the commercial service of Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway which has been operating since October 2023, carrying nearly 10 million passengers.Indonesia wants a larger role in supplying nickel and other raw materials to China’s fast-growing electric car makers.On Sunday, Subianto hosted Li in a ceremony at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta before the two leaders held a bilateral meeting behind closed doors.
“The current international situation is facing a huge upheaval, and peaceful development is facing many uncertain and unstable factors,” Li said in his opening remarks.China wants to strengthen its traditional friendship and Belt and Road Initiative partnership with Indonesia, especially in five key pillars: politics, economy, maritime affairs, security and cultural and people-to-people exchanges.” Li said.
came with $21.7 billion in new Chinese investment, following a previous $44.89 billion investment commitment made when former President Joko Widodo met Chinese President Xi Jinping in July the same year.
The two leaders oversaw the signing of a dozen agreements including cooperation to encourage bilateral transactions in local currencies, trade, investment, tourism, health and agricultural exports.on Feb. 14, 2025, for a respiratory crisis that developed into double pneumonia. He spent 38 days there, the longest hospitalization of his
AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports the Vatican has announced that Pope Francis has died, Monday, at 88.He made his last public appearance
— a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, drawing wild cheers and applause. Beforehand, he met U.S. Vice President JD Vance.performed the blessing from the same loggia where he was introduced on March 13, 2013, as the 266th pope.