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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 7:50 pm ET
New opinion polls added pressure on Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Monday to take a tougher stand against asylum-seekers and end a standoff involving 78 boat-people picked up by an Australian ship off Indonesia.
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Nasdaq - Tue Nov 10, 4:47 am ET
JAKARTA -(Dow Jones)- Australia's economy is beginning to recover but spare capacity is "substantial," Treasurer Wayne Swan told a news conference in Jakarta.
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Bloomberg - Sun Nov 8, 11:29 pm ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Asian currencies rose, led by Malaysia’s ringgit and the Indonesian rupiah, on speculation low U.S. interest rates and a pledge by the Group of 20 to keep stimulus measures will draw investors to higher-yielding assets.
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Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Nov 3, 9:28 am ET
PITT MEADOWS, BRITISH COLUMBIA and JAKARTA, INDONESIA--(Marketwire - 11/03/09) - Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc. (TSX: TZT - News ), a premier manufacturer of wireless broadband and WiMAX communication systems has received the first volume production order targeted for Indonesian operators worth US$5.4M to Tranzeo. PT. Teknologi Riset Global (TRG) in partnership with Tranzeo has developed a ...
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 6, 9:28 pm ET
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesian fishermen are going bankrupt because the oil spill from the Montara field off northwestern Australia has ruined fish stocks, ABC News reported on its Web site, citing an environmental lawyer.
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Nov 5, 7:35 am ET
Jakarta - Indonesia's president pledged Thursday to step up the fight against corruption in the justice system after wiretapped recordings revealed an apparent attempt to undermine the country's anti-corruption commission. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sa...
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 5, 11:43 pm ET
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia is ready to grant Australia another week to persuade 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave a vessel moored in the Southeast Asian nation’s waters, a foreign ministry official said.
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OneWorld - Wed Nov 4, 11:40 pm ET
JAKARTA, Nov 4 (IRIN) - Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia's West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say. Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) read more
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 6, 1:28 am ET
Indonesia extended by a week on Friday a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave its territory.
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Unicef - Wed Nov 4, 3:21 pm ET
PADANG, Indonesia, 4 November 2009 – The stacks of formula milk in a former ballroom in the city of Padang, West Sumatra, had to be quickly removed. Though generosity motivated local companies to donate these supplies in response to the 30 September earthquake here, such donations could have proved fatal.
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The Sacramento Bee - Tue Nov 10, 3:04 am ET
Benjamin Wagner, a top federal prosecutor for more than 15 years, was sworn in Monday as the 10th U.S. attorney in the Sacramento-based Eastern District of California.
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The News Journal - Sun Nov 8, 7:08 am ET
The monkey, shackled to an iron stake, paced a narrow strip of dirt filled with its own excrement.
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Bloomberg - 21 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Palm oil fell, reversing an advance to its highest level in more than two months, after stockpiles in Malaysia, the world’s second-largest producer, increased to a 10-month high as output surged to a record.
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INO News - Thu Nov 5, 8:26 pm ET
(RTTNews) - The Indonesian stock market has finished lower in two of the four trading days this week, since the end of the four-day losing streak in which it had declined more than 120 points or 5 percent en route to a two-month closing low.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 6, 2:31 am ET
The Red Cross suspended its activities in the Indonesian province of Aceh for a day on Friday after one of its German workers was shot and wounded by gunmen on a motorbike.