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AN EMPLOYEE of Standard Chartered Bank will be charged in court today for criminal breach of trust involving $500,000, BT understands AN EMPLOYEE of Standard Chartered Bank will be charged in court today for criminal breach of trust involving $500,000, BT understands.

Indonesian authorities have arrested an Iranian-born Australian resident who they suspect headed a people-smuggling network that spanned the country, a report said.

SINGAPORE will play host to several of the world's prominent finance and economics experts as they come together to form Asia's largest economics research organisation here, aimed at giving an intellectual boost to the local financial industry.

Rescuers recovered another four bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 21, mine officials said Tuesday.

MANADO, North Sulawesi, May 21 -- The island of Bangka in the district of Minahasa, North Sulawesi, holds potential reserves of iron ores, an official said.

JOHOR BAHARU, May 20 -- Two men were sent to the gallows by the High Court here today after they were found guilty of drug trafficking.

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.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Reporting accurately is of course paramount in journalism, at least at the ABC.

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.