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JOHOR BAHARU, May 20 -- The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is offering consultation service to any agencies, companies or non-governmental organisations in a bid to fight corruption within their organisations.

Melaka and Indonesia have proposed to introduce a new gateway for Indonesian workers to travel and work in Melaka, especially industries located in coastal areas, on a daily basis.

Hotel construction report summarizing the pipeline for Asia Pacific, USA, Sth America and more regions around the world.

Tree-lined Cendana street in an upscale neighborhood in central Jakarta has not changed much in recent decades, save for the demolition of a few Dutch colonial homes in favor of modernist villas.

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Indonesia named respected investment chief Muhammad Chatib Basri as finance minister, who takes on the role as Southeast Asia's biggest economy grapples with slowing economic growth and how to bring down the cost of massive fuel subsidies.

Tana Toraja, that remarkably beautiful series of river valleys in Central Sulawesi, is the tropic's answer to Bhutan.

Bob Elson, the Australian historian who wrote Indonesia: A History of an Idea, has expressed his puzzlement at what he sees as a gap between Indonesia in the international arena and Indonesia at home.

To remind Singaporeans about the free Pap smear screenings this month, the Singapore Cancer Society came out with a "Lift your skirt.

Rescuers recovered the bodies of four more workers from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to nine, police and company officials said Sunday.

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Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting ECHONEWS to 80360, or email us Click here for details A Tragedy struck while Cheznye Emmons, 23, of Morrins Close, Great Wakering, was travelling through south Asia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21.

Indonesia's public health industry is being pushed to the brink of collapse as the government tries to implement universal healthcare.

Voters in the Philippines appear to have delivered a resounding victory to President Benigno Aquino in midterm elections.

JOHOR BAHARU, May 18 -- Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar, recently appointed as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, will resign as President and Chief Executive Officer of Malayan Banking Bhd on June 4. He will take his oath of office as Senator on June 5 in order to assume his new portfolio.

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 shop.

Addressing journalists at the UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Cameron said that members of the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which includes President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, "nailed our colours to the mast with one clear overarching aim - end extreme poverty in ... (more)

Catholic leaders in Indonesia are protesting the decision of an American foundation to honor the country's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his contributions to inter-religious dialogue.

JOHOR BAHARU, May 18 -- Former Maktab Sultan Abu Bakar principal Zulkipli Mahmud has been declared Leadership Figure , in conjunction with the Johor state-level Teacher's Day celebration held at the Pusat Islam Iskandar Johor here Saturday.

A BRITISH woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said.