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Scientists Race to Contain Malaria New Discoveries More Resistance
Two new medical discoveries are raising hopes of containing malaria - the mosquito-borne parasitic disease that each year infects more than 200 million people and claims an estimated 660 thousand lives. Meantime, the World Health Organization is warning about dire consequences if a drug-resistant form of malaria spreads beyond southeast Asia. Artemisinin has helped cut global malaria deaths ...
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Palace calls SBY critics on freedom award narrow-minded
Paper Edition | Page: 4 A presidential spokesman said on Friday that howls of protest against a plan by the US-based Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF) to honor President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for upholding religious freedom would not change the fact that the President deserved the award. "The ACF is a credible organization. Thus, the statements from certain people claiming ...
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Disgraced taxman wants to be justice collaborator
Paper Edition | Page: 4 A tax official recently named suspect for accepting bribes from a steel company said on Friday that he wanted to be a justice collaborator and expose graft at the tax office.Eko Darmayanto, the taxman, said after being questioned by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) that he knew of top officials at the tax directorate general embroiled in graft."I will ...
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Maarif Institute fights radicalism
Fajar Riza Ul-Haq, the executive director of the Maarif Institute for Culture and Humanity, says that Indonesia was built on the principle of pluralism, giving people of all creeds equal rights. This principle, however, has been in jeopardy. Over the past 10 years, Fajar said, Indonesia has been slowly doing away with pluralism and has turned more sectarian and exclusive. The persecution of ...
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Sex lies and PKS
Paper Edition | Page: 1 Efforts by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) to distance itself from Ahmad Fathanah were stymied after the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) presented evidence linking the graft suspect to the Islamist party's top officials. Agriculture Minister Suswono, himself a senior PKS politician, for example, changed his testimony while in the witness chair at the ...
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Health minister to depart for WHA
Taipei, May 17 (CNA) Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta was scheduled to depart Friday to attend the 66th World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland, during which he is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart for the first time since 2010.Chiu said arrangements were being made for him to meet with Li Bin, minister of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission, when they ...
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Thai Spring launches online campaign against PM Yingluck
The speech Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra delivered in the Mongolian capital recently has sparked widespread discussions nationwide. Many have been asking if it is appropriate for the prime minister to cite domestic political conflicts in a speech. Others are questioning her decision to mention the coup that ousted her brother, former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, as well as the attack on a ...
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Southern China rains kill 55 leave 14 missing
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website says at least nine provinces have had storms and some flooding and landslides since Tuesday. It says Guangdong province has been hit the hardest, with 36 deaths and 10 missing people, followed by Jiangxi province, where six people are reported dead and four more ...
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Conn. commuter trains collide 60 go to hospitals
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five critically injured and one very critically injured, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. There were no reports of ...
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Obama Burmese President to Discuss Reform Progress Challenges
WHITE HOUSE -- Obama, Burmese President to Discuss Reform Progress, Challenges Burma's President Thein Sein holds talks on Monday with President Obama at the White House. The discussions will focus on progress in reforms, barriers toward greater democratization and next steps in the changing U.S. - Burma relationship. November 2012. Barack Obama becomes the first serving U.S. president ...
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British tourist Cheznye Emmons 23 killed in Indonesia after drinking spiked gin
Cheznye Emmons, from Great Wakering, Essex, was travelling through Indonesia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, when she started feeling ill after drinking from a bottle marked as gin from a local ...
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Rupiah falls victim to uncertainty on fuel prices
Paper Edition | Page: 1 The rupiah spiraled into another precipitous depreciation cycle this week as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's dithering over fuel subsidies propagated anxiety in the market. The rupiah closed at 9,757 to the US dollar, the weakest five day performance since April 5, according to Bloomberg. The currency previously touched 9,845, the lowest level since Jan. 10. ...
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Government recognizes customary forests
The government was due to begin mapping areas defined as customary and state forests following the Constitutional Court's ruling that rendered the government's ownership of customary forests void, a top forestry official has said. On Thursday, the court decided to scrap the word "state" from Article 1 of the 1999 Forestry Law, which says "customary forests are state ...
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Three convicted killers finally put to death in Cilacap prison
Paper Edition | Page: 2 The Attorney General's Office (AGO) announced three convicted murderers were executed at Nusakambangan Penitentiary in Cilacap, Central Java, early on Friday morning."The executions were carried out at 0:00 a.m.," junior attorney for General Crimes Mahfud Manan said in Jakarta on Friday, as quoted by Antara news agency.Suryadi, one of the convicts, from ...
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Jatigede Dam to be in operatation by 2014
Paper Edition | Page: 3 The Public Works Ministry is accelerating the Rp 4 trillion (US$408 million) Jatigede Dam project in Sumedang, West Java, as part of the government's food security program.The government is working with Chinese state-run company Sinohydro Corporation to complete the project.The ministry's water resources director general Mohamad Hasan says the construction, ...
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Oil and gas blocks under the gavel and up for grabs
Paper Edition | Page: 3 The government officially offered 21 oil and gas blocks located mostly in eastern parts of Indonesia to potential investors in its first round of block tender this year. The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry's oil and gas chief Edy Hermantoro said in Jakarta on Friday that the blocks included two unconventional shale gas blocks to be offered to the ...
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Largest oil and gas conference ends in stalemate
Paper Edition | Page: 3 The 37th Indonesian Petroleum Association (IPA) convention -- a major conference for local petroleum industry players -- failed to answer questions over the sector's current investment climate as it wrapped up on Friday.The three-day convention was the first major annual meeting of oil and gas giants -- including US companies Chevron and ExxonMobil and France-based ...
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Penang govt and Malaysian police headed for showdown tonight
GEORGE TOWN (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysian police and the Penang state government are heading for a showdown. The state is planning to proceed with its "thanksgiving mega ceramah" in the Esplanade on Saturday night although the police have not approved the permit application for the gathering. Deputy Chief Minister I Mohd Rashid Hasnon said the state had notified the police ...
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Malaysias Home Minister says remarks in Utusan were not racist just practical
Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi speaking to journalists at Air Hangat Lounge of Mahsuri International Exhibition Centre (MIEC) during LIMA 2013 in Langkawi, Kedah. Malaysia's Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has defended his recent statement which called for groups which did not accept the country's political system to migrate to countries with systems that suit them. -- ...
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Myanmar president leaves for official visit to Washington
Myanmar President U Thein Sein left Nay Pyi Taw Friday night for Washington to pay an official visit to the United States, official sources said.On his first trip to Washington as a Myanmar head of state in 47 years, U Thein Sein will meet his US counterpart Barack Obama at White House on next Monday and discuss with him democracy building in the Southeast Asian nation, the White House said ...
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Successful launch of Brunei Malay artefacts
Some of the artefacts on display at the `Warisan Budaya Brunei' exhibition launched yesterday at the gallery of the MIB Supreme Council at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Picture: BT/Nabilah ...
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iCUBE partners urged to step up
File photo shows a PhD student from Universiti Brunei Darussalam (L) presenting his research project in the White Sands area to iCUBE members. Picture: BT ...
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Brunei and Vietnam strengthen ties in fisheries agriculture
Minister of Industry and Primary Resources YB Pehin Dato Hj Yahya (L) and Vietnam Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat (R) signing an MoU on bilateral cooperation in agriculture and fisheries, held at The Empire Hotel and Country Club, Jerudong. Picture: BT/Ubaidillah ...
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Changes to traffic flow at airport
Acting DCA director Pg Adanan Pg Badaruddin (C) briefing the media on diversion of traffic flow and passenger movement as part of the Brunei International Airport's terminal modernisation project. Picture: ...
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Minister works on enhancing bilateral relations in education
Korean Minister of Education (L) Seo with Minister of Education YB Pehin Dato Hj Abu Bakar exchange souvenirs during the bilateral meeting on the sidelines of ASEMME4 last week. Picture: Courtesy of ...
Pakistan Feature
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Pakistan's darkest hour
What began as the normal monsoon season has turned into the greatest disaster, the greatest humanitarian crisis and the worst floods ever seen in the history of Pakistan. According to the UN, the disaster in Pakistan from 2010 floods is now worse than the 2005 earthquake in the country and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia combined.
It is a catastrophe of mammoth proportions and the challenge faced by a centrally weak government is how to get food aid to the some 6 million in need of help and provide relief facilities to the 20 million people impacted by the disaster. Read more
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