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At least 12 dead in Malaysia orphanage landslide

A landslide caused by heavy rains hit an orphanage in Malaysia on Saturday, killing at least 10 children and two ...

"The Tree of Life" wins 2011 Golden Palm at Cannes

"The Tree of Life" by American director Terrence Malick has won the 2011 Golden Palm (Palme d`Or), the most ...

Indonesian Youth launches plant one billion trees campaign

Indonesian National Youth Committee (KNPI) chairman Aziz Syamsuddin launched a Youth Movement to Plant One Billion ...

Indonesian climbers about to conquer seven summits

A team of six Indonesian climbers is two steps away from conquering the world`s seven highest mountains known as seven ...

110-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton discovered in South Tunisia

The nearly intact skeleton fossil of a dinosaur believed to have lived about 110 million years ago was recently ...

Japan detects radioactivity 30 km off coast

Japanese scientists have found measurable concentrations of radioactive iodine-131 and caesium-137 in seawater samples ...

West Java to observe earth hour

The "Earth Hour" campaign by turning off electricity for an hour on March 26, 2011 throughout West Java, will save a ...

Aceh elementary schoolers campaign on global warming issues

Hundreds of elementary school students in Aceh Besar district campaigned on global warming and climate change issues ...

W Java to save 661.54 MW of electricity during earth hour

West Java is to observe Earth Hour on Saturday (March 26) with a public effort to save as much as 661.54 megawatt ...

Chavez says capitalism may have destroyed life on Mars

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said life probably existed on the Red Planet, but was destroyed by capitalism and ...

Save water sources for next generations

Ever heard the punchline "Save the Water, Drink Beer"?. Although the saying might originally have been intended to ...

Potable water sources in RI decreasing: minister

Potable water sources on earth including in Indonesia are on the decline, Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta ...

Monazite stock in Babel sufficient to build nuclear power plant

Monazite stock in Bangka belitung (Babel) Province is sufficient for a nuclear power plant which will be built in West ...

RI humanitarian team told to avoid Japan radiation zone

The Indonesian humanitarian and relief aid team which was sent to Japan Thursday was told to stay away from the ...

North Sulawesi one of RI`s earthquake-prone regions

North Sulawesi province is one of Indonesia`s earthquake-prone regions as geographically it is surrounded by a number ...