Nusa Tenggara Timur

Questing for Bali's Lake Batur

Local resident Luc Pols shares the ninth in a series of travel stories about Southeast Asia Editor’s note: This is the ninth in a series of travel stories from local resident Luc Pols, who is traveling through Southeast Asia....

Buzz Briefs: Whoopi Goldberg, "The Office"

Whoopi to produce "Sister Act" musical in London. Melora Hardin goes from "The Office" to Broadway. Ryan O'Neal, son delay entering pleas. Horror master Stephen King has digital appeal. Rihanna cancels Indonesia concert over...

16 killed in bus fire in Guatemala

Guatemala City: Sixteen people died when a bus carrying agricultural workers burst into flames for unknown reasons, rescue workers and forensics experts said. The incident occurred on Sunday morning 140 km east of the capital,...

Passenger boat capsizes in Indonesia, killing 8

JAKARTA, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people including a two-year-old child were killed and two remained missing, when a passenger boat capsized Sunday night in eastern Indonesia, the Jakarta Post reported Monday. The...

Seahorses under threat

By Ahmad Fairuz Othmannews@nst.com.my JOHOR BARU: Seahorses here are swimming in troubled waters. The latest survey carried out at the Sungai Pulai estuary near Gelang Patah indicates a bleak future for the seahorse colony...

Nigeria: Need to Revisit Privatisation of EPCL

The Eleme Petrochemical Company Limited (EPCL), a wholly owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) subsidiary was built in between 1992 and 1995, and commissioned in 1996 as part of the Corporation's mission of being...

PTBA planning to join Northstar consortium

Minister for State Enterprises Sofyan Djalil said state-owned coal mining firm PT Tambang Batubara Bukit Asam (PTBA) was planning to join Northstar Pacific consortium which would buy 35 stake in PT Bumi Resources (BUMI).

Govt hopes flexible budget in face of crisis in 2009

The government hopes that the House of Representatives (DPR) will agree to set a flexible 2009 state budget in an effort to face global financial crisis which is expected to last until 2009, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani said.

Government ready to carry out share buy-back program through PIP

The government is ready to continue its share buy-back program in the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI) through the Government Investment Center (PIP) whose fund management also involves the asset management company PT Perusahaan...

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