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News Focus : RI`s failure to host global environment day regretted

Indonesia`s failure to be named host of World Environment Day (WED) 2011 is regrettable because the nation has lost a ...

"Engaged Buddhist" Sulak Sivaraksa of Thailand to receive 28th Niwano Peace Prize

-     The Niwano Peace Foundation will award the 28th Niwano Peace Prize to Sulak Sivaraksa of Thailand ...

Protesters demand release of Yemeni activist

About 200 journalists marched in Sanaa on Sunday to demand the release of press freedom activist Tawakel Karman and ...

UN special envoy in Indian Kashmir

United Nations special rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya arrived in Indian Kashmir Wednesday to review the working ...

Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps founder, dies

Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps and a former vice presidential candidate, died Tuesday in suburban ...

Hidayatullah.com, PMII reach peaceful solution

The central executive board of the Indonesian Islamic Student Movement (PMII) and "Hidayatullah.com" editorial ...

Two Thais in Cambodia court on spying charges

A Thai nationalist activist and his aide appeared in a Cambodian court Wednesday to face spying charges in a border ...

Walhi: Environmental damage to increase 50-70 pct in 2011

The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) predicts that environmental damage in Indonesia in 2011 will increase ...

S Sumatra govt urged to overcome environmental damage

The South Sumatra branch of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI) has urged the local government to ...