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Japan to boost military budget amid China row

Japan will increase military spending in 2013 for the first time in more than a decade, the ruling party said Tuesday, ...

Two more secret service agents resign; Obama blames "knuckleheads"

Two more U.S. Secret Service agents are resigning over a Colombia prostitution scandal, the agency said on ...

Unification or independence options limit Taiwan's future

Taiwan should no longer engage in the dispute over whether to be independent or to unify with China, as this will ...

France votes as Sarkozy era hangs by thread

French voters headed to the polls on Sunday for the first round of a presidential election that is expected to mark ...

Former GAM minister elected as Aceh governor

Former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) foreign affairs and health minister Zaini Abdullah has been elected Aceh Province ...

Indonesia welcomes Jim Yong Kim as new World Bank president

Indonesia welcomes the election of Jim Yong Kim as the new president of the World Bank to replace Robert Zoellick who ...

Karzai says NATO failed as 18-hr Kabul attack ends

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that a coordinated Taliban attack showed a "failure" by Afghan ...

Voting begins in East Timor presidential run-off

Voting began Monday in East Timor`s presidential run-off election, as the young democracy prepares to celebrate its ...

Yudhoyono hopes Indonesia-Britain relations to grow stonger

President Susilo Yudhoyono said he hoped the current visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron would further ...

Plenary will offer package options and points

Vice chairman of the meeting for the Special Committee on Election bill, I Gede Pasek Suardika, said there remains two ...

Plenary to vote for election bill

The dead end discussions on the national election bill are to be decided in voting in the House of Representative`s ...

Democrat Party consistent to support open proportional system: Ibas

The ruling Democrat Party will be consistent in supporting the open proportional system of elections and a ...

Heated argument expected if elections bill voted on: Pramono

House Deputy Speaker Pramono Anung said a heated debate would occur if three crucial issues in the general elections ...

Aceh students in Jakarta expect peaceful regional elections

Aceh students studying in Jakarta have expressed hope that the simultaneous elections in their native Province would ...

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 ...