TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Tempo English rounded the top 3 news on Sunday, January 28, 2024. Here are the highlights: Top 8 Countries with Largest Nickel Reserves in the World, Asian Cup 2023: Graham Arnold Says Australia Vs Indonesia Is No David Vs Goliath Battle, and Countries with the Highest and Shortest Average Height in the World.

The following is the list of the top 3 news on Tempo English today:

1. Top 8 Countries with Largest Nickel Reserves in the World

Nickel has been a hot topic in Indonesia following last week's election debate during which vice presidential candidate number 2, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, accused his rival candidate number 1, Muhaimin Iskandar, of being anti-nickel, as the latter's campaign team co-captain Thomas Lembong often claimed that nickel was losing popularity to lithium ferro-phosphate (LFP) in the global electric vehicle market.

The debate over nickel, including its use for EV batteries, continued. Several ministers backed President Jokowi’s eldest son and questioned Lembong’s statement. They include the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Luhut Pandjaitan, Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia, and former Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi.

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2. Asian Cup 2023: Graham Arnold Says Australia Vs Indonesia Is No David Vs Goliath Battle

Australia may have the easiest Asian Cup last 16 game on paper when they take on Indonesia, who scraped through to the knockout stages, but coach Graham Arnold said on Saturday, Jan. 27, that the southeast Asian team would be a hard nut to crack.

Indonesia were the last team to qualify as one of the four best third-placed teams, moving into the knockout stage on three points to earn a match-up against Group B toppers Australia.

Indonesia are also the lowest-ranked team in the knockouts -- 121 rungs below their opponents -- but Arnold is wary of the fact that they have foreign-born players who were naturalized as the team qualified for the Asian Cup for the first time in 17 years.

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3. Countries with the Highest and Shortest Average Height in the World

World Population Review released a list of countries with the highest and shortest average height in the world in 2023. Indonesia is in first place as the country with the shortest average height in the world. Meanwhile, the Netherlands gets the top position as the country with the highest average height.

Caucasian people in Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand are known to have a height above the average for other human races on earth. However, not all countries have the same average height. The Netherlands, which was originally relatively short compared to other European countries, has now become at the top.

On the other hand, when compared with European people, people in Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia, are known to have relatively short heights. Not only Indonesia, other countries in Southeast Asia actually have heights that are not much different, such as the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia.

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