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Thick haze sparks respiratory infections in Riau
Thick haze blanketing Bengkalis regency and Dumai City in Riau over the last few days has increased the number of respiratory infections.In Bengkalis, the number of people suffering from respiratory infections reached 531 as of June 17, jumping from only 387 a month earlier."The sharp increase in the number of respiratory infection cases has been caused by the thick haze blanketing the ...
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Rural poor to get second priority for cash assistance
The poor living outside the major metropolis might have to wait a little longer to receive the government's direct cash assistance (BLSM).Coordinating Minister For People's Welfare Agung Laksono said in Jakarta on Wednesday that the disbursement of the BLSM in rural areas would have to wait due to access problems."The disbursement will begin in 12 major cities, then the rest will ...
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MNC to buy ANTV from Bakrie
Media conglomerate MNC Group is set to purchase ANTV television from Bakrie Group's PT Visi Media Asia (VIVA).MNC Group director David Fernando Audy said as quoted ...
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IHSG closed in the red
The Indonesian Composite Index (IHSG) dropped into the red zone on Thursday.Kontan.co.id reported that the index plunged by 0.70 percent to 4,806.65 during the final trading session.Transaction volume stood at 11.45 billion shares and only the trade sector sector ended in the green zone with 0.42 percent gain.The top losers were PT Lippo Karawaci dwn by 4.85 percent, PT Adaro Energy 4.71 ...
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Huawei chosen for Myanmar rollout
Chinese vendor Huawei has been selected to work with state-backed telco Myanmar Post and Telecommunications (MPT) to expand wireless networks in the country, local news portal Eleven Myanmar writes, citing sources ...
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Vimpelcom attracts ‘concrete’ buyer for unwanted African assets Laos deal imminent
USD400 million. Although the deal has yet to be finalised, the agreement is said to be 'concrete'. Interestingly, the buyer is said to be a private equity investor, rather than one of the major telecom groups in the region that had previously been linked with a potential deal. Standard Chartered is advising Vimpelcom on the transaction, having been hired in 2012 to find a buyer for its ...
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Cambodia PM says garment firms may quit over wage rows
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday warned garment workers that protests demanding higher wages could push manufacturers to quit the country. His appeal came after unions last week said hundreds of workers had been fired from a factory making sportswear for US giant Nike after a series of pay protests. Cambodian workers have repeatedly demonstrated ...
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Haze update Indonesia to use rain-making technology to stop fires
An Indonesian firefighter extinguishes a fire near a forest area of Pekanbaru in Riau province located in Sumatra island on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Indonesia plans to use weather changing technology to try to unleash torrents of rain and extinguish raging fires on Sumatra island that have cloaked neighbouring Singapore in thick haze, an official said on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: ...
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Points to ponder on gold Asian demand and QE tapering
Asian gold demand, and that from China in particular, is of far more importance than markets credit - and QE tapering may not be negative for gold, at least in the medium to long ...
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Intrepid faces tough fight over Indonesia copper-gold mine
- Australia's Intrepid Mines Ltd is learning that business in Indonesia is personal as it wages a difficult fight to win back rights to a $5 billion copper and gold prospect in East ...
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Singapore shrouded in Sumatran fire haze
Singapore enveloped in a thick pall of wood smoke caused by forest fires in Sumatra Pollution index reaches 173 on Wednesday, the worst level since 1997 when it reached 226 National Environment Agency says air quality becomes 'very unhealthy' when the index passes 200 Singapore is anxious to avoid a repeat of the 1997 haze crisis which cost an estimated $9 ...
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Sri Lanka carrier boosts fleet with A350s
(44 mins ago) Airbus said today that SriLankan Airlines, the country's national carrier, whcih has a relatively young fleet, had agreed to buy six long-haul A330 aircraft and four next-generation A350 planes in a deal worth US$2.6 billion at list prices. ';We are grateful of this renewed confidence SriLankan Airlines is placing with us,'' John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating ...
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Pakistani community gives envoy fond send-off
The event, at Grand Midwest hotel in Dubai Media City on Friday, was attended by Pakistan Association Dubai members and dignitaries from the wider Pakistani community in the ...
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Twenty-two dead in Nepal monsoon floods
AT least 22 people have been killed in landslides and floods triggered by heavy monsoon rain in remote parts of Nepal, a government spokesman ...
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Canberra adds to Cambodia tribunal funding
AUSTRALIA is to give $A3.25 million extra support to the UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) ...
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Croc kills pregnant woman in Indonesia
A PREGNANT woman has been killed and her three-year-old son is missing after they were attacked by a crocodile in eastern Indonesia, a local official ...
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Philippines Golan peacekeepers to stay for now
Philippines troops at the Quneitra crossing between Syria and the Israeli annexed Golan Heights last week. The Philippines Wednesday said it would keep its peacekeepers in the Golan Heights until at least August, and may stay longer if the United Nations increased security ...
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Pakistan closes university and hospital after fatal attacks
Pakistani have authorities closed Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after terrorist attacks killed nearly 90 ...
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Etihad Airways to launch double daily flights from Abu Dhabi to Malaysia
WAM ABU DHABI, June 19th, 2013 (WAM)Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will add a new daily flight between Abu Dhabi and Kuala Lumpur to offer a double daily service from July 15th. The new schedule will add 1400 new seats per week to the route - an increase in capacity of approximately 23 per cent. It will enable Etihad Airways to offer better flight ...
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Worsening haze from Indonesia angers Singapore tourists
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore's smog crisis from Indonesian forest fires worsened Wednesday as air pollution levels reached a 16-year high, triggering a run on medical masks and angry complaints from foreign tourists and locals.The city-state's Pollutant Standards Index soared to 172 at mid-afternoon, well past the officially designated "unhealthy" threshold of 100, according ...
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Conquering Everest begins at a tiny Nepal airstrip
LUKLA, Nepal // As soon as the decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, passengers burst out in applause. They do that for nearly every safe landing at the often terrifying airport at the gateway to Mount Everest. At an altitude of 2,843 metres, the small airstrip here has earned a reputation as one of the most extreme and dangerous airports in the world. The single runway is narrow, ...
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Bengkalis calls for firefighting assistance
An uncontrollable fire in Riau has left its capital, Pekanbaru, and several other regencies and municipalities in the province, blanketed in smoke clouds, on Wednesday. The thick smoke has forced education authorities in Bengkalis and Dumai to give students vacation to prevent the spread of acute respiratory ...
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Extreme weather water shortage impede fire extinguishing efforts in Riau
Manggala Agni fire-fighting team from the Riau Natural Resource Conservation Center (BBKSDA) has been overwhelmed in attempts to prevent raging peatland fires across some areas in Riau province, due to extreme weather and lack of water."The most we can do is to prevent the fires from spreading. But to fully extinguish the fires, it is very difficult as there are many challenges in the ...
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MAC finds support for cross-strait rep offices
A recent MAC survey shows that 71.1 percent of the public approve the ROC government's policy of setting up reciprocal cross-strait representative offices. (Courtesy of ...
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ROC legislates to protect important wetlands
Liberty Times Taiwan's wetlands will be better protected after the ROC Legislative Yuan passed the Wetlands Conservation Act June 18, establishing a classification system and management mechanisms for their conservation. Under the act, anyone wishing to profit from the use of wetlands for industrial production, business operation or tourism purposes will have to gain permission from the ...
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