HEADLINES
June 21, 2012
Hundreds of tribesmen armed with bows and arrows clashed in Papua, northwest of Bali, leaving one man dead in the latest outbreak of deadly violence in the region.
June 21, 2012
A verdict is due shortly in the terrorism trial of Umar Patek, accused of masterminding the 2002 bombings in Bali that claimed the lives of 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.
June 20, 2012
An Indonesian anti-drugs group challenged in court on Wednesday a presidential decision to slash the jail term of Australian drug-trafficker Schapelle Corby.
June 20, 2012
A New Zealand woman has been arrested in Bali over the alleged theft of chocolate from a supermarket in Seminyak.
June 20, 2012
Foreign tourists paid a collective US$56.4 million to enter Bali last year, a figure the local authorities predict will rise in 2012.
June 20, 2012
A brothel in Sydney has received the green light for a multimillion-dollar expansion which will see it become Australia's largest sex premises, with rooms featuring multiple beds and pool tables.
June 19, 2012
The Australian city of Melbourne was hit by a rare earthquake on Tuesday, with residents reporting their houses shook and windows rattled, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
June 19, 2012
A court will hand down its verdict on Thursday on Umar Patek, an accused bombmaker in the 2002 Bali attacks, bringing to an end a 10-year probe into the nation's deadliest act of terror.
June 19, 2012
Rescuers said 58 people were still missing two days after a wooden boat sank off eastern Indonesia -- revising sharply upwards the number of people on board the vessel.
June 15, 2012
Editorial In the Western world, the United States is deplorably the only country to still use capital punishment. This abhorrent, – Read More...