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Haze from Sumatra forest fires covers Aceh

Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - Banda Aceh Municipality and Aceh Besar District have been covered by haze from Sumatra forest fires over the past few days, however it did not affect flights at Sultan Iskandar Muda airport.The haze had covered Aceh since last week, head of the...

Oscars ratings sink to all-time low: figures

Los Angeles (ANTARA News/AFP) - US television ratings for this year's Oscars sunk to an all-time low, preliminary figures showed Monday, as viewers turned their back on a ceremony dominated by dark, bleak films.According to figures from Nielsen Media Research, Sunday's...

Lampung earns $360 mln from exports to America

Bandarlampung (ANTARA News) - Lampung province last year earned US$360.52 million from its non-oil/non-gas exports to American countries, up 17.72 percent from a year earlier.The figure represented 15.51 percent of the province`s total exports valued at US2.32 billion last...

India test-fires sea-based nuclear-capable missile

New Delhi (ANTARA News) - India on Tuesday successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile from an undersea platform, the defence ministry said.The launch from a submerged pontoon took place off India`s southeast coast near the port city of Visakhapatnam around 1:00 pm...

Match-making manifesto woos Malaysian voters

Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News) - Malaysia's conservative Islamic party pledged Tuesday to provide match-making services for older women and cut the cost of dowries in an election manifesto for its stronghold of Kelantan state.The fundamentalist Pan Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS),...

Forty-seven Indonesians die in Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News) - Forty-seven Indonesian nationals died of different causes in Malaysia in January 2008, a spokesman said. The dead included those who had received certificates of permanent residence, were employed as migrant workers, died while being treated at...

Suharto children appoint lawyers to appear in gra...

Jakarta (ANTARA News/AFP) - Five of late Indonesian president Suharto's six children have appointed lawyers for their defence in a civil graft case that was originally filed against their father, a court heard Tuesday.The government had been seeking 1.4 billion dollars in...

Japan biggest E Asian contributor to Lampung`s fo...

Bandarlampung (ANTARA News) - Japan was the biggest East Asian contributor to Lampung province`s foreign exchange earnings in 2007, a local trade and industry official said here on Monday.In the January - December period in 2007, Lampung exported 2,390,786 tons of...

Four killed in attack on British NGO office in Pa...

Peshawar, Pakistan (ANTARA News/AFP) - Gunmen opened fire and hurled grenades Monday at the office of a British-run aid group in northwest Pakistan, killing at least four local staff and wounding 10 others, officials said.The attackers stormed the office of Plan...

Iraqi minister warns Turkish raid could destabili...

London (ANTARA News/AFP) - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned Saturday that Turkey`s ground offensive in northern Iraq should end quickly before it destabilises the region, in an interview with the BBC.Zebari, quoted by the BBC website, said that Iraq did not...

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