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Sex lies and PKS
Paper Edition | Page: 1 Efforts by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) to distance itself from Ahmad Fathanah were stymied after the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) presented evidence linking the graft suspect to the Islamist party's top officials. Agriculture Minister Suswono, himself a senior PKS politician, for example, changed his testimony while in the witness chair at the ...
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Health minister to depart for WHA
Taipei, May 17 (CNA) Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta was scheduled to depart Friday to attend the 66th World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland, during which he is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart for the first time since 2010.Chiu said arrangements were being made for him to meet with Li Bin, minister of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission, when they ...
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Thai Spring launches online campaign against PM Yingluck
The speech Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra delivered in the Mongolian capital recently has sparked widespread discussions nationwide. Many have been asking if it is appropriate for the prime minister to cite domestic political conflicts in a speech. Others are questioning her decision to mention the coup that ousted her brother, former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, as well as the attack on a ...
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Southern China rains kill 55 leave 14 missing
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website says at least nine provinces have had storms and some flooding and landslides since Tuesday. It says Guangdong province has been hit the hardest, with 36 deaths and 10 missing people, followed by Jiangxi province, where six people are reported dead and four more ...
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Conn. commuter trains collide 60 go to hospitals
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five critically injured and one very critically injured, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. There were no reports of ...
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Obama Burmese President to Discuss Reform Progress Challenges
WHITE HOUSE -- Obama, Burmese President to Discuss Reform Progress, Challenges Burma's President Thein Sein holds talks on Monday with President Obama at the White House. The discussions will focus on progress in reforms, barriers toward greater democratization and next steps in the changing U.S. - Burma relationship. November 2012. Barack Obama becomes the first serving U.S. president ...
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British tourist Cheznye Emmons 23 killed in Indonesia after drinking spiked gin
Cheznye Emmons, from Great Wakering, Essex, was travelling through Indonesia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, when she started feeling ill after drinking from a bottle marked as gin from a local ...
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Rupiah falls victim to uncertainty on fuel prices
Paper Edition | Page: 1 The rupiah spiraled into another precipitous depreciation cycle this week as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's dithering over fuel subsidies propagated anxiety in the market. The rupiah closed at 9,757 to the US dollar, the weakest five day performance since April 5, according to Bloomberg. The currency previously touched 9,845, the lowest level since Jan. 10. ...
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Government recognizes customary forests
The government was due to begin mapping areas defined as customary and state forests following the Constitutional Court's ruling that rendered the government's ownership of customary forests void, a top forestry official has said. On Thursday, the court decided to scrap the word "state" from Article 1 of the 1999 Forestry Law, which says "customary forests are state ...
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Three convicted killers finally put to death in Cilacap prison
Paper Edition | Page: 2 The Attorney General's Office (AGO) announced three convicted murderers were executed at Nusakambangan Penitentiary in Cilacap, Central Java, early on Friday morning."The executions were carried out at 0:00 a.m.," junior attorney for General Crimes Mahfud Manan said in Jakarta on Friday, as quoted by Antara news agency.Suryadi, one of the convicts, from ...
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Jatigede Dam to be in operatation by 2014
Paper Edition | Page: 3 The Public Works Ministry is accelerating the Rp 4 trillion (US$408 million) Jatigede Dam project in Sumedang, West Java, as part of the government's food security program.The government is working with Chinese state-run company Sinohydro Corporation to complete the project.The ministry's water resources director general Mohamad Hasan says the construction, ...
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Oil and gas blocks under the gavel and up for grabs
Paper Edition | Page: 3 The government officially offered 21 oil and gas blocks located mostly in eastern parts of Indonesia to potential investors in its first round of block tender this year. The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry's oil and gas chief Edy Hermantoro said in Jakarta on Friday that the blocks included two unconventional shale gas blocks to be offered to the ...
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Largest oil and gas conference ends in stalemate
Paper Edition | Page: 3 The 37th Indonesian Petroleum Association (IPA) convention -- a major conference for local petroleum industry players -- failed to answer questions over the sector's current investment climate as it wrapped up on Friday.The three-day convention was the first major annual meeting of oil and gas giants -- including US companies Chevron and ExxonMobil and France-based ...
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Penang govt and Malaysian police headed for showdown tonight
GEORGE TOWN (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysian police and the Penang state government are heading for a showdown. The state is planning to proceed with its "thanksgiving mega ceramah" in the Esplanade on Saturday night although the police have not approved the permit application for the gathering. Deputy Chief Minister I Mohd Rashid Hasnon said the state had notified the police ...
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Malaysias Home Minister says remarks in Utusan were not racist just practical
Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi speaking to journalists at Air Hangat Lounge of Mahsuri International Exhibition Centre (MIEC) during LIMA 2013 in Langkawi, Kedah. Malaysia's Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has defended his recent statement which called for groups which did not accept the country's political system to migrate to countries with systems that suit them. -- ...
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Myanmar president leaves for official visit to Washington
Myanmar President U Thein Sein left Nay Pyi Taw Friday night for Washington to pay an official visit to the United States, official sources said.On his first trip to Washington as a Myanmar head of state in 47 years, U Thein Sein will meet his US counterpart Barack Obama at White House on next Monday and discuss with him democracy building in the Southeast Asian nation, the White House said ...
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Successful launch of Brunei Malay artefacts
Some of the artefacts on display at the `Warisan Budaya Brunei' exhibition launched yesterday at the gallery of the MIB Supreme Council at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Picture: BT/Nabilah ...
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iCUBE partners urged to step up
File photo shows a PhD student from Universiti Brunei Darussalam (L) presenting his research project in the White Sands area to iCUBE members. Picture: BT ...
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Brunei and Vietnam strengthen ties in fisheries agriculture
Minister of Industry and Primary Resources YB Pehin Dato Hj Yahya (L) and Vietnam Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat (R) signing an MoU on bilateral cooperation in agriculture and fisheries, held at The Empire Hotel and Country Club, Jerudong. Picture: BT/Ubaidillah ...
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Changes to traffic flow at airport
Acting DCA director Pg Adanan Pg Badaruddin (C) briefing the media on diversion of traffic flow and passenger movement as part of the Brunei International Airport's terminal modernisation project. Picture: ...
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Minister works on enhancing bilateral relations in education
Korean Minister of Education (L) Seo with Minister of Education YB Pehin Dato Hj Abu Bakar exchange souvenirs during the bilateral meeting on the sidelines of ASEMME4 last week. Picture: Courtesy of ...
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$70m state-of-the-art Defence Academy
The Deputy Minister of Defence, Dato Paduka Hj Mustappa Hj Sirat (R), being briefed on the Defence Academy at Tanah Jambu. Picture: Courtesy of ...
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Vietnam to help Brunei boost rice production
Vietnam Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Cao Duc Phat (L) and Minister of Industry and Primary Resources YB Pehin Dato Hj Yahya (R) take a closer look at rice seedlings at a farm in the Kg Wasan padi fields. Picture: Courtesy of ...
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Report Yahoo nearing $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr
NEW YORK (AP) - Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company's board of directors will meet Sunday evening to consider approving a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing ...
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Sri Lanka pile up 425 India 280
Thilan Samaraweera made an unbeaten 137 as Sri Lanka piled up 425 in their first innings against India on the second day of the third cricket Test here ...
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Sri Lanka sees major tourism industry investment
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, especially the cruising scene, is getting back on its feet following the war, with significant interest being shown by major cruise lines wanting to schedule Sri Lankan ports on Indian Ocean Cruises, while the local yachting scene is seeing exciting growth and a local cruise industry may be emerging from infancy.
Sri Lanka, following the long and devastating civil war, which lasted around two and a half decades, is now making renewed attempts to redevelop its tourist industry. The industry is extremely import to the economy of Sri Lanka and is a vital part of the country’s access to foreign currency reserves, but saw marked declines in tourist arrivals during periods in which the ongoing civil war was perceived to be increasing in intensity and violence. Read more
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