By Coconuts Jakarta January 3, 2015 / 17:53 WIB The AirAsia plane that crashed off Indonesia was flying on an unauthorised schedule, the country’s transport ministry has said, adding that it has now frozen the airline’s permission to fly the… Read More ›
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Beijing’s dangerous arrogance in the South China Sea
Philip Bowring says Beijing’s superiority complex and selective reading of Southeast Asian history have become the toxic brew fuelling tensions in the South China Sea Philip Bowring BIO China’s current behaviour vis-à-vis its South China Sea neighbours is aggressive, arrogant and… Read More ›
Analyst: Stealth Technology Seizure Behind MH370 Disappearance
EEV: ? Not as concerned of the conspiracy of a hijacking, but as to the passenger list INDONESIA, AT SEA: A personnel of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue looks over horizon during a search in the Andaman sea area around northern… Read More ›
‘I always wonder if someone is listening’: NSA spied on American lawyers but sometimes got other governments to do the work for them
U.S. law firm advising Indonesia’s government on trade issues was spied on by a foreign government Spying was done by Australia which then passed the info onto the NSA Law firm involved not identified in the latest documents The NSA… Read More ›
Indonesia halts Australia drills as protesters call for ‘war’
Joint exercises halted as Indonesian hackers claim responsibility for cyber attacks on Australian Federal Police and Reserve Bank of Australia websites Agence France-Presse in Jakarta Anti-Australia protesters shout slogans while holding a placard, reading ‘expel Australian diplomatic members’, during a… Read More ›
No bikinis to avoid offending Muslims at Miss World contest in Indonesia
© Flickr.com/brimfulofsasha/сс-by-nc-sa 3.0 Contestants at the Miss World beauty pageant to be held later this year in Indonesia will not wear bikinis to avoid offending Muslims, an organizer said. “There will be no bikinis and the contestants will not… Read More ›
Couples caught having sex before marriage could be sent to prison for FIVE YEARS under new Muslim law in Indonesia
Even couples living together out of wedlock and have sex to face year in jail Part of a raft of proposals which include a ban on witchcraft and black magic Bid to revise laws based on laws of former colonial… Read More ›
‘Close’ encounters of the asteroid kind: 130,000 ton asteroid to make closest ever fly-by of Earth: “within 32,000km of earth”
2012 DA14 asteroid pass within 32,000km of earth, inside the orbit of communication satellites Rob Williams Monday, 4 February 2013 A chunk of space rock 50 metres wide, weighing 130,000 tonnes and travelling at 17,400mph is set to make its… Read More ›
Revealed: How Facebook is used to kidnap and traffic Indonesian girls
27 Facebook-related abductions reported this year in Indonesia 435 children were trafficked last year, mostly for sexual exploitation By Katy Dartford PUBLISHED:05:46 EST, 29 October 2012| UPDATED:06:57 EST, 29 October 2012 Facebook is increasingly being used to kidnap Indonesian children… Read More ›
Indonesia’s “Frankentrees” turn cocoa dream into nightmare : somatic embryogenesis, or SE experiment disaster
By Lewa Pardomuan and Michael TaylorPosted 2012/10/15 at 7:50 pm EDT PINRANG/JAKARTA, Oct. 15, 2012 (Reuters) — Nurhaedah, a vivacious Indonesian cocoa trader, shakes her head in disappointment as she sifts through a pile of blackened, shriveled beans. Yet another… Read More ›
Rothschild fears Bumi ‘divorce’ will lead to cheap asset sale
Financier Nat Rothschild fears a £750m “divorce” deal proposed by his partners in FTSE 250 coal group Bumi could offer them a backdoor way to acquire all of the company’s assets. The plan was the Bumi would bring great Indonesian… Read More ›
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