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Batam to have two botanical gardens

Batam City, Riau Islands Province, will have two botanical gardens having different functions, to be located ...

Vietnam government promises compensation for damaged chinese factories

Vietnams government will provide compensation for factory owners, whose buildings were damaged in anti-China protests ...

Indonesia Gears Up For Research In Unexplored Deep Sea

Indonesia is the biggest archipelagic country in the world, with around 70 percent of its territory is waters and it ...

S. Korea`s Park, sorry over ferry disaster, breaks up coast guard

South Korean President Park Geun-hye formally apologised on Monday for a ferry disaster last month that killed about ...

Coral reefs as sustainer of food security

Coral reefs, the major topic of discussion in the World Coral Reef Conference (WCRC) in Manado, on May 14-16, 2014, ...

6 Coral Triangle Iniative (CTI) Countries Establish Permanent Regional Institution

- Six state members of Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI - CFF) commemorated ...

Ministry predicts home-bound travelers in 2014 to reach 27 million

The number of home-bound travelers during the Idul Fitri Holiday 2014 is expected to reach 27 million, according to a ...

Greenhouse gas found rising from New Zealand seafloor

New Zealand and German scientists have found a major network of frozen methane and methane gas, causing underwater ...

Jakarta monorail project must go on: ministry

The transportation ministry said the Jakarta monorail project must continue to be built to help solve the capital ...

Abbott telephones Yudhoyono

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott telephoned Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday afternoon to ...

6.2-magnitude quake hits east of Japan

An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale hit east off Japan at 5:18 a.m. local time on Monday, with strong ...

Kalla perfect running mate for Jokowi: Analyst

Former vice president M. Jusuf Kalla is the perfect vice presidential candidate for Joko Widodo (Jokowi) who is ...

Jambi to have international sea port soon

The Indonesian province of Jambi on Sumatra Island will soon have a new international seaport of Ujung Jabung at ...

Two volcanoes` status in Java increased

The status of the two most active volcanoes in Java Island, Mount Slamet and Merapi, were raised by the authority on ...

Legu Gam able to generate people`s economy

Organized by Ternate Sultanate to mark the birthday of the Sultan of Ternate, the annual Legu Gam Festival in North ...