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RI determined to accelerate formation of Asean community

Indonesia is determined to speed up the formation of an ASEAN Community by 2015, Executive Director of the Center for ...

Cabinet reshuffle to serve as political maneuver only : legislator

The cabinet reshuffle discourse only serves as the government`s political maneuver which could not ensure the ...

N.korea Heir Formally Invited to China - South Korea Spy Agency

China has formally invited North 
Korea`s leader-in-waiting to visit, but it was not clear when
 Kim ...

China`s defence budget to rise 12.7% in 2011

China`s defence budget will rise 12.7 percent in 2011 to 601.1 billion yuan ($91.7 billion), a government spokesman ...

President cancels cabinet meeting on people`s welfare

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono suddenly canceled a meeting on people`s welfare scheduled for 2pm on Thursday and ...

Democrat Party invites Gerindra to join govt coalition

The ruling Democrat Party is opening the opportunity for the Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party to join the ...

Canada ship sets off to join US flotilla near Libya

The war ship HMCS Charlottetown set sail from the port of Halifax in eastern Canada Wednesday to join a US-led ...

RI House supports unification of Cyprus

Indonesia`s House of Representatives (DPR) supports the unification of Cyprus as a sovereign nation within the the ...

Rising status of women, increased risk of smoking

Millions of women in developing countries risk disease and early death in the coming decades as the tobacco industry ...

Britain halts aid to Russia, China, UN agencies

Britain on Tuesday slashed 16 countries including Russia and China from the list of nations it gives financial aid to ...

Thousands march to Bahrain`s Pearl Square

Thousands of Bahrainis took to the street 
Tuesday in an anti-regime protest heading to Pearl Square, the focal ...

PLN to build six power plants with foreign capital

State electricity company PLN is to build six power plants in 2011 with overseas investment totaling 3.006 billion ...

Govt continuously monitors food commodity prices

The government would continuously monitor food commodity prices for several months to come to detect possible ...

Tunisia`s Islamist leader returning from exile

Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia`s Islamist movement Ennahda, boarded a plane Sunday to return home from ...

Egyptian President Mubarak orders army to back police

Hosni Mubarak ordered troops and tanks into Egyptian cities on Friday in an attempt to quell street fighting and ...