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Moderate quake shakes Aceh

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale shook Banda Aceh and environs on Thursday afternoon, causing panic ...

Strong quake rocks Aceh

A strong earthquake measuring 6.0 on Richter scale jolted the Aceh provincial capital of Banda Aceh at 3.55 pm on ...

New approach needed to stop HIV/AIDS spread in Indonesia

With four years to go before the deadline of MDGs in 2015, Indonesia is still struggling to stop or reverse the upward ...

Manado has highest HIV/AIDS prevalence in N. Sulawesi

Manado city has the highest rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ...

Caterpillar invasion reaches Denpasar

After breaking out in several eastern parts of Bali, a caterpillar population explosion is now also happening on the ...

Ambon to host World Assembly of Youth Meeting

Ambon, Maluku`s provincial capital, is to host a World Assembly of Youth (WAY) meeting in July 2011, Governor Karel ...

Daewoo plans to build power plant in Bantaeng

South Korea`s leading business company Daewoo Logistic plans to build a power plant to help overcome the limited power ...

Afghan governor survives assassination attempt

The governor of a restive province in north-eastern Afghanistan said he survived a "fierce" attack Thursday on the ...

President Leaves For Kupang Aboard Warship

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono aboard KRI Slamet Riyadi warship left Atambua for Kupang in East Nusa Tenggara ...

President admires rapid development in NTT

Admiring a rapid development in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the ...

Five killed in blasts south of Baghdad

Two roadside bomb attacks on Monday in a Sunni Arab town south of the Iraqi capital killed five people, including ...

50 dead in Iraq as suicide blasts rock holy city

A spate of explosions across Iraq on Thursday killed at least 50 people, most of them in twin suicide car bombings in ...

Mozambique storms, floods kill 12: police, state media

Lightning killed eight churchgoers in central Mozambique with a separate storm and floods raising the death toll to ...

Hundreds of cargo trucks stuck in Merak

A few hundreds of cargo trucks could not yet go on aboard the ferries sailing from Merak seaport in Java to Bakauheni ...

Rumored death toll in Medan flood still unconfirmed

The North Sumatra office of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) on Thursday was still unable to confirm rumors about a ...