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Indonesia's journalists Thursday vowed to defy a ban on the screening of Australian movie "Balibo", saying the film depicting alleged war crimes by Indonesian forces in East Timor is educational.
When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.
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The 10 candidates vying to stage the World Cup in 2018 or 2022 will be officially introduced in Cape Town on Friday. Before the start of the glittering draw ceremony to decide the groups for the 2010 finals, the bid teams for the next two finals will screen a four-minute promotional film at a Western Cape government residence.
Global deaths from measles fell by 78 percent between 2000 and 2008 thanks largely to mass childhood vaccination campaigns, but experts say death rates may rise again if complacency allows immunization efforts to lag.
India announced that it would curb the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
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Yangon - A group of eight German tourists have biked from China to Myanmar as a part of a regional cycling tour that will end in land-locked Laos, industry sources said Friday. The tourists are now in central Myanmar enjoying a 800-mile (1,280-kilom...
Is now the time to invest in an emerging-market bond fund? Panic caused by the Dubai crisis nudged down pricesbut not enough to make a difference, writes Brett Arends.
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to submit a bid to become a host city of the FIFA World Cup in 2018 or 2022. The council voted Tuesday to submit an application, but FIFA would have to choose the United States to be a host country first. Australia, England, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands-Belgium, Russia and Spain-Portugal have also filed to host both World Cups.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s closing of a tax loophole is curbing dollar-denominated corporate bond sales following a record $3.6 billion of new securities since August.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesian mutual-fund assets may grow in 2009 at twice the pace of previous years after the stock market doubled from March and the central bank cut interest rates to a record low, an industry association said.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a fourth month, judging that the need to support growth outweighs the risk of inflation.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a fourth month, judging that the need to support growth outweighs the risk of inflation.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s central bank may keep interest rates unchanged for a fourth straight month, judging that the need to support growth outweighs the risk of inflation.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s central bank may keep interest rates unchanged for a fourth straight month, judging that the need to support growth outweighs the risk of inflation.
