Indonesia News

“There may be cases were neighbors came back and because of the tidal surge, the bodies were dispersed”

As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly into the water.

But with little aid getting through to desperate cyclone survivors, the dead have largely been forgotten _ left to decay where the brackish waters carried them or waiting to be pulled out to sea by the rising tides.

'The first few we saw, we were all very shocked,' said U Pinyatale, a monk from the area who has prayed for the dead. 'After a while, there were just too many.' Read more

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Gas sales rose sharply in Indonesia when the government oil company announced plans to raise the price. via RedOrbit

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MICROSOFT'S VISION OF THE future involves people being able to self medicate by printing out their own pharmaceutical drugs straight from a printer, according to a top Volish exec. via The INQUIRER

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“Malaria is a contagious disease and is still a health problem in the world, including Indonesia”

More than two-thirds of the 576 districts in Indonesia have been classified as malaria endemic areas, with more than 100 million people at risk of catching the disease, the country's health minister said ... via Earth Times

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“If the average fuel price hike is at around 30 percent this month, then May inflation is likely to spike very high”

JAKARTA: Asia grappled with a response to inflation on Tuesday in an era of $120-a-barrel oil and record commodity prices, with Indonesia raising rates and other countries saying that they hoped the problem ... via Peak Oil

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“The market may wish that the Yahoo deal may come back together, but Microsoft at least at this point assumes it's over”

Microsoft's offer was for $33 a share but Yahoo would not lower its demand below $37, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said JAKARTA: Microsoft has no plans to make another approach for Yahoo Inc after it ... via Gulf Times

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“We stand ready, willing and able to give and render humanitarian assistance”

About 30,000 people are missing in Burma after this weekend's devastating cyclone, in addition to a death toll of 15,000, Thai Foreign Minister Noppadol Pattama said after a meeting with Burma's ambassador to ... via The Age

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“Ahmadiyah is an infidel organisation using the name of Islam, which aims to disrupt Islam”

RADICAL Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir called on Tuesday for the ban of an 'infidel' Islamic sect as debate raged in the world's most populous Muslim country over religious freedom and tolerance. via The Straits Times

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“You never know if there's going to be a deal that makes sense”

Microsoft Corp. will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc., Chairman Bill Gates said Friday.

Microsoft has not presented an alternative strategy to compete with its dominant rival in the Internet business, Google Inc., since withdrawing a $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. last weekend.

Analysts have been left wondering how the world's largest software maker will get a larger piece of that multibillion dollar market without a major tie-up. Read more

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ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, says it will spend as much as $10 billion on projects in Indonesia, reports Bloomberg News . via Institutional Investor

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