Indonesia will not reopen investigations into the 2002 killing of two US teachers in remote Papua province despite a report alleging the military's involvement, the foreign minister said Tuesday. The report Monday in the peer-reviewed South East Asia Research Journal said military agents had helped organise an ambush that killed three staff of US giant Freeport McMoRan near its massive Grasberg gold and copper mine.
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The resignation of President Pervez Musharraf is a chance for Pakistan to overcome its leadership crisis and focus on problems like the economy and Islamic extremism, Indonesia said Tuesday. "We see this leadership crisis of the last few years and we view the resignation of Musharraf as part of the crisis," Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda told reporters a day after Musharraf stepped down. Agence France-Presse - 8/18/2008 10:51 AM GMT
New evidence points to Indonesian military involvement in a 2002 attack that killed two US teachers and an Indonesian in the country's remote Papua province, a report said Monday. Members of Indonesia's military were linked to the highland ambush on a convoy of employees from mining giant Freeport McMoRan outside its massive Grasberg gold and copper mine, the article in the peer-reviewed South East Asia Research journal said. Agence France-Presse - 8/17/2008 3:17 AM GMT
Indonesia on Sunday cut three months off the 20-year sentence imposed on Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby as part of independence day celebrations, an official said. "Corby officially gets today on Indonesia's independence day a three-month cut off her sentence," Yon Suharyono, the head of the Kerobokan penitentiary where Corby is being held on Bali island, told reporters. Agence France-Presse - 8/15/2008 8:03 AM GMT
Southeast Asia's biggest economy can expect strong growth of 6.2 percent next year despite a global outlook "wrought with challenges," Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Friday. Unveiling the 2009 draft national budget, Yudhoyono said Indonesia would be able to further its economic transformation while bringing inflation under control and spending more on higher civil service salaries and education. Agence France-Presse - 8/15/2008 7:47 AM GMT
Indonesia will cut three months off the 20-year sentence imposed on Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby as part of independence day celebrations this weekend, an official said Friday. "To mark Indonesian independence day, Corby will get a three-month cut off her sentence," said Yon Suharyono, the head of the Kerobokan penitentiary where Corby is being held on Bali island. Other Regional Stories
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- Indonesia rejects US pressure over Hezbollah TV: minister
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Kabul Wednesday and met survivors of an ambush that killed 10 French troops in the deadliest attack on international forces in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Sarkozy touched down at Kabul airport with his Defence Minister Herve Morin and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and immediately took a helicopter to Camp Warehouse, the base for French troops on the outskirts of the city.
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Actors Ben Kingsley, George Clooney, Peter O'Toole, directors Ethan and Joel Coen, and more star power than ever will be on hand for the upcoming 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. The festival, which runs from September 4-13, will showcase 249 feature films and 63 shorts from 64 countries this year, including 116 world premieres.
Agence France-Presse - 8/19/2008 8:21 PM GMT
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To bust a robbery syndicate operating at the Metro Walk Strip mall in Pasig City, elements of the Eastern Police District placed a laptop as bait and waited for their quarry to make their move. After three hours of long wait, elements of the EPD's Special Operations Group arrested Richard Mangunay, 20, and Jeffrey Martinez, 23, both of De la Cruz street, Barangay 130 in Pasay City, moments after they grabbed the bait - a gray ECS Elite Group Laptop worth P30,000.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Kabul Wednesday and met survivors of an ambush that killed 10 French troops in the deadliest attack on international forces in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Sarkozy touched down at Kabul airport with his Defence Minister Herve Morin and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and immediately took a helicopter to Camp Warehouse, the base for French troops on the outskirts of the city.
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Tech-savvy South Korea now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday. The data means each of the country's 15.8 million households has almost three mobiles on average, it said.
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