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Indonesia defying cheap oil fuel policy

Indonesia`s Deputy Energy Minister Widjajono Partowidagdo said Indonesia could no longer apply a cheap oil fuel policy ...

Government Policies Responsible for Half of the Reduction in Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

-     Approximately half of the deforestation that was avoided in the Brazilian Amazon during ...

Convention Centre Welcomes New Airline Services to Darwin

-         The Darwin Convention Centre is eagerly awaiting the arrival of SilkAir's ...

Medvedev heads off for Seoul, New Delhi

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday departed for South Korea and India, where he will attend a nuclear summit ...

Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Additional $220 Million to Fight Global Tobacco Use

-     - Progress to date includes 1.2 billion people protected by effective tobacco control ...

Brazil reopens embassy in Iraq

Brazil will re-open its embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, this month after it was closed 21 years ago, Agencia Brasil, the ...

Jagger honorary "ambassador" in Peru`s Amazon

Rock legend Mick Jagger was named an honorary ambassador for tourism in the Madre de Dios region of the Amazon ...

news focus: RI soccer team fails to defeat Qatar

Indonesia`s senior soccer team led by captain Bambang Pamungkas in its match against Qatar at the Bung Karno main ...

Riau`s exports to seven main destinations fall

Riau province`s non-oil/non-gas exports to its seven main export destinations fell in July 2011, causing its overall ...

BI lowers key rate to 6.5 pct

Bank Indonesia (the central bank/BI) decided Tuesday to cut its key rate by 25 basis points to 6.5 percent on ...

RI-Saudi match ends with "glasses" score

The Indonesian senior soccer team shared a 0-0 draw in facing Saudi Arabian soccer players in a try-out match at the ...

Biosphere reserves should improve local people`s livelihoods

Besides protecting the ecology and biodiversity, the existence of biosphere reserves in Indonesia should also improve ...

Russia, China veto UN resolution condemning Syria

Russia and China joined forces on Tuesday to veto a European-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Syria ...

news focus: rainforest conservation, law enforcement crucial for orangutan`s survival

Indonesia is home to the world`s remaining population of critically endangered orangutans found on Sumatra and ...

Indonesia proposes bio-village in SSC int`l workshop

Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said the Indonesian government proposed bio-village concept in the second ...