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Foreign investment up 30.3 pct in first quarter

Foreign investment rose 30.3 percent in the first quarter of 2012 to Rp51.5 trillion, compared with Rp39.5 trillion ...

IDX launches new IDX30 index

PT Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) has officially launched a new IDX30 index which is based on 45 top stocks (LQ45)."The ...

World Bank picks Korean-American Kim as president

The World Bank chose Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim as its next chief Monday in a decision that surprised few ...

Myriad Group Unleashes Mobile Social Networking to the 80 Percent of Asian Subscribers

-     - Myriad Updates enables operators to monetize Facebook and Twitter on low-end devices for ...

Intimate Lingerie Asia 2012 Commence in August

-Introducing the Foremost Premier Lingerie Show at Asia's Vegas     Intimate Lingerie Asia (ILA) ...

Sony Entertainment Network's Music Unlimited Service Launches in Belgium and the Netherlands

-            The Cloud-based Digital Music Service Reaches its ...

Aceh voters go to polling stations in peace

Thousands of people in all districts across the Indonesian westernmost province of Aceh went to the polling stations ...

Rights body to field monitoring team in Aceh

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) plans to field four teams to monitor the people of Aceh in ...

Postponement of fuel price hike could cause public uncertainty

Economist from the Institute for Development of Economy and Finance, Fadhil Hasan, believes that the government`s ...

Thousands of workers rally in front of parliament office

Thousands of workers from various labor unions rallied in front of the House of Representatives building in Central ...

Chile energy minister resigns over fuel protests

Chile`s President Sebastian Pinera has accepted the resignation of Energy Minister Rodrigo Alvarez who stepped down ...

Preemies can lag in language later on

Children who were born prematurely may lag behind their peers when it comes to more advanced language skills, ...

Six Somalis killed in Mogadishu mortar attack: witnesses

At least six Somali civilians were killed after mortar shells struck their camp for displaced people near the ...

RI's govt called on to supervise fuel speculative buying

The Indonesian Consumer Institute (YLKI) for West Sumatra called on the regional government to keep watch on ...

Over 21 pct of RI`s population still without clean water - (d)

Some 60 million people or 21.16 percent of Indonesia`s 230 million population still have no access to clean water, ...