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Tree planting movement to support food sovereignty program

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo attended a national commemoration of Indonesian Tree Planting Day (HMPI) 2014 and ...

Aid workers must heed local culture to save lives: Red Cross

When Ebola emerged in West Africa this year, the virus was able to spread so quickly partly because burial rituals in ...

Siloam Hospitals Again Awarded Indonesian Healthcare Services Provider of the Year by Frost & Sullivan

Siloam Hospitals Group has again been honoured with Healthcare Services Provider of the Year at the Frost & ...

Sinabung`s deadly clouds claim 15 lives in a single day

Over 30 thousand people across 34 villages have been displaced since last September 2013, as a result of the sporadic ...

Landslides damage 19 houses and schools in Lebak

Landslides have damaged 19 houses and two school buildings in Lebak District, Banten Province, over the past one week ...

Bangkok shutdown could bring change to thai politics: Suan Dusit

The latest survey by Suan Dusit Poll indicated that the planned Bangkok shutdown by anti-government protesters of the ...

UN sounds alarm on south Sudan hepatitis E outbreak

The UN`s refugee agency warned Friday that an outbreak of hepatitis E among refugees in South Sudan was worsening and ...

Nigerian military says 35 Islamists killed in crackdown

Nigeria`s military said Monday it has killed 35 suspected Boko Haram Islamists in a crackdown on the insurgent group ...

Dozens protest against detention of relatives at Saudi prison

Security forces were blockading roads around a desert prison in central Saudi Arabia on Monday, when relatives of ...

World Water Week Closes With Vision for a Water and Food Secure Future

-     The 2012 World Water Week in Stockholm closed today with a "vision" capturing the perspective ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon pledges full support to Qatar for establishing the Global Dry Land

-     -- Panel of global leaders gather in Qatar National Pavilion at Rio+20 UN Conference on ...

Qatar Joins New International Organization to Promote Green Growth

-     Qatar joined sixteen other industrialized, emerging economies and developing countries on ...

Greens Distort Indigenous Rights to Block Indonesian Sustainable Development at Rio

-     Pro-development group says that Green anti-business campaigns will chill investment and halt ...

Shiite pilgrims flock to Baghdad shrine despite bombings

Thousands of Shiite pilgrims headed on foot to a north Baghdad shrine on Thursday to commemorate the death anniversary ...

UN declares Somali famine over for now

An exceptional harvest after good rains and food deliveries by aid agencies have ended famine in Somalia for now but ...