W SUMATGRA HAS WORLD'S FIRST BILIH FISH EXPERT
Padang, July 8 (ANTARA) - West Sumatra will soon have an expert in the bilih fish, the first in the world, with the installation of Dr Ir Hafrijal Syandri MS as professor at the Faculty of Marine
PRESIDENT ASKS ACEHNESE IN M'SIA TO RETURN TO THEIR HOME TOWNS
Kuala Lumpur, July 8 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asked around 24,000 Acehnese people in Malaysia to return to their home towns in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam after the Free Aceh Move
KPU ANNOUNCES 34 PARTIES PASS VERIFICATION TO JOIN GENERAL ELECTION
Jakarta, July 7 (ANTARA) - The General Election Commission (KPU) announced that 34 political parties comprising 18 newly established parties and 16 old parties passed the factual verification proce
USAID OFFICE RECEIVES BOMB THREAT
Makassar, S Sulawesi, July 7 (ANTARA) - The USAID office in the Indonesian city of Makassar received a first-ever bomb threat from an unidentified caller on Monday.
QUAKE SHAKES MALUKU TENGGARA BARAT DISTRICT
Ambon, Maluku, July 7 (ANTARA) - An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shook the eastern Indonesian district of Maluku Tenggara Barat early Monday but there was no immediate report of ca
GM'S 1ST SEMESTER SALES IN ASIA PACIFIC REACH 798,000 UNITS
Jakarta, July 7 (ANTARA) - General Motors (GM) said its sales in Asia and the Pacific in the first half of 2008 reached 798,000 units, accounting for 3.5 percent of its total sales world-wide.
M'SIAN INVESTORS ASK RI TO OVERCOME PROBLEMS AFFECTING THEIR PROJECTS
Kuala Lumpur, July 7 (ANTARA) - Some Malaysian investors have called on the Indonesian government to help them overcome problems hampering their investment projects in Indonesia, Indonesia's chief
YUDHOYONO TO HAVE TETE-A-TETES WITH UN CHIEF, OTHER LEADERS AT HOKKAIDO
Tokyo, July 7 (ANTARA) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and a number of state/international organization leaders plan to have private meetings with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono o
RUPIAH MOVES CLOSER TO RP9,200 PER DOLLAR
Jakarta, July 7 (ANTARA) - The rupiah moved closer to Rp9,200 per dollar in the Jakarta interbank spot market on Monday morning as investors rushed for the local unit following Bank Indonesia (BI)'
NGO RALLIES FOR RI DEBT WRITE-OFF OUTSIDE JAPANESE EMBASSY
Jakarta, July 7 (ANTARA) - Activists of the Anti-Debt Coalition (KAU), a non-governmental organization (NGO), staged a rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Jakarta on Monday to demand that adv
