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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 ...
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$70m state-of-the-art Defence Academy
The Deputy Minister of Defence, Dato Paduka Hj Mustappa Hj Sirat (R), being briefed on the Defence Academy at Tanah Jambu. Picture: Courtesy of ...
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Vietnam to help Brunei boost rice production
Vietnam Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Cao Duc Phat (L) and Minister of Industry and Primary Resources YB Pehin Dato Hj Yahya (R) take a closer look at rice seedlings at a farm in the Kg Wasan padi fields. Picture: Courtesy of ...
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Report Yahoo nearing $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr
NEW YORK (AP) - Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company's board of directors will meet Sunday evening to consider approving a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing ...
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Sri Lanka pile up 425 India 280
Thilan Samaraweera made an unbeaten 137 as Sri Lanka piled up 425 in their first innings against India on the second day of the third cricket Test here ...
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Resona in Malaysian bank tieup for Asian expansion
Resona Holdings Inc., the nation’s fifth-largest bank by market value, is poised to tie up with Malaysia’s Public Bank Bhd. as part of its efforts to expand in Asia. Resona will sign an agreement with Malaysia’s third-biggest lender on Monday to serve Japanese companies looking to enter the country and borrow in the local currency, President Kazuhiro Higashi said in an ...
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CORRECTED-Indonesia offers 21 oil and gas blocks in tender
Fri May 17, 2013 10:34pm EDT (Corrects number of unconventional gas blocks offered, removes references to coalbed methane blocks.) JAKARTA May 17 (Reuters) - Indonesia opened a rights tender for 21 oil and gas exploration blocks on Friday, two of which are for unconventional gas concessions on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, as Southeast Asia's largest economy moves to shore up its energy ...
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France’s first Asian cabinet minister a rising force
France's Junior Minister of Small Business, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Fleur Pellerin, arrives to attend the first cabinet meeting of the Hollande government at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 17, 2012. (REGIS ...
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Bangladesh garment hub reopens
Hundreds of garment factories in a Bangladesh manufacturing hub have reopened after being closed for days because of unrest sparked by the country's worst industrial tragedy, employers say.Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association shut down the factories at the Ashulia industrial area on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka earlier this week after tens of thousands of workers ...
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Asian giants as key partners
The significance of China-India relations is strategic and its impact global because both are large developing countries and emerging markets, Premier Li Keqiang told visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in Beijing on May 10. On his return to New Delhi, Khurshid said: "India and China have to collaborate for the Asian century." Giving shape to this vision should ...
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Foreign couple's novel approach to helping Burmese village
The political situation in Myanmar is well-known throughout the world, but often overshadows the circumstances of local people and our rich culture. A couple overseas have combined the two to create an unusual approach to helping the people of one village in the country.
Myanmar is one of the most politically and socially isolated countries in the world, much bad press is leveled at our country for decisions made and actions taken that the people are not responsible for and while attention focuses on the political dynamic of the country, the plight of many Burmese such as poverty, lack of access to water and education, become overshadowed. One family in the United States has taken a novel approach to giving back to a country that has stolen their hearts. Read more
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