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Al-Kurshmi meets Japanese ambassador

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SANA'A, Sep 09 (Saba) - Minister of Public Works and Roads Omer
al-Kurshmi met on Tuesday with the Japanese ambassador to Yemen
Masakazu Toshikage.

Phoenicia vessel to visit Yemen next two days

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ADEN, Sep. 09 (Saba)- The Phoenicia vessel and on its board 20
sailors from different nationalities is going to arrive in the Aden
port within next two days in the formwork of its journey which
started last August from Arwad Island off the coast of Syria.

Border Guard in Najran Region seizes hashish

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Najran, September 09, SPA -- A patrol affiliated to the Border Guard
in Najran Region has seized a quantity of hashish in a valley located
in the border area that falls within the scope of the patrols' task,
it was reported here today.

RI TO EXTEND US$100,000 IN AID TO LAOS

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Jakarta, Sept 9 (ANTARA) - Indonesia is to extend US$100,000 worth of aid to Laos which was recently hit by the largest flood in the last 100 years, a government spokesman said.

ANTONY ZEIDRA DENIES HAVING ASKED MONEY FROM BI

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Jakarta, Sept 9 (ANTARA)the - Former member of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission IX Antony Zeidra Abidin denied through his lawyer here on Tuesday that he had once asked Bank Indonesia (BI) for money to settle the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) problem and for the revisi

BALI GOVERNOR WELCOMES FRENCH RED CROSS ASSISTANCE FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT

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Denpasar, Sept 9 (ANTARA) - Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika has welcomed French Red Cross assistance for disaster management and the construction of a Disaster Management Operational Control Center (Pusdalops PB) in Bali.

WALHI OPPOSES REOPENING OF POSSIBILITY TO OPEN HTIs IN NAD

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Banda Aceh, Sept 9 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI) opposes the reopening of the possibility for companies to obtain Industrial Crop Forest (HTI) licenses in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam as it contradicts the provincial administration's moratorium on forest logging, a sp

HARMONIOUS HINDU-ISLAM RELATIONS IN BALI ROOTED IN HISTORY : OFFICIAL

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Denpasar, Bali, Sept 9 (ANTARA) - Traditional Hindu Bali royal rulers are known to have always maintained cordial relations with Muslim communities living in their respective realms and this condition must be maintained and even further developed, a regional religious affairs official said.

ALMOST ONE TON OF FIRECRACKERS DISCOVERED AT AIRPORT'S CARGO TERMINAL

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Jakarta, Sept 9 (ANTARA) - Security officers at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Tuesday discovered 960 kg of firecrackers in the cargo terminal meant for loading into a flight to Batam in Riau Islands province, police said.

PRESIDENT TO HOLD TELECONFERENCE WITH UN CHIEF ON CLIMATE CHANGE

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Jakarta, Sept 9 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will hold a teleconference with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as well as with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on climate change, a spokesman said.

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