President Yudhoyono postpones Europe trip: spokesman

"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has postponed an official visit to Europe amid nationwide protests against a hike in fuel prices by his administration, a spokesman said Monday."The president took the decision to postpone his trip to...

US Travel warning`s lifting to increase tourist visiting to Indoensia

"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The lifting of a US travel warning on Indonesia is expected to help increase the number of US tourist arrivals in the country in 2008, a presidential spokesman said."The lifting of the travel warning is something we have been waiting for a long time,"...

New Dino: Sight for 'Saur' Eyes

"A new type of dinosaur - a 110 million-year-old plant eater discovered in the Sahara Desert - was unveiled Nov. 15 by the National Geographic Society"

Vista, Leopard, Linux to compete in hack contest

"Apple's OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. Run by the organizers of the CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 security conference, the competition is a repeat of the "PWN to Own"...

Myanmar PM`s Indonesia visit postponed: officials

"Indonesia's ex-president Suharto is currently in hospital critically ill following multiple organ failure on Friday. Doctors said Sunday that his condition had stabilised after he was hooked to a ventilation machine.President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cut short an official...

President Yudhoyono shocked after hearing Benazir Bhutto`s death

""Of course he (President) was shocked and condemned the terrorists," Dino Patti Djalal, presidential spokesman told Antara here on Thursday night.The head of state expressed a hope that such fatal accident will not harm democracy in Pakistan, which is now unstable especially...

President Yudhoyono receives Iranian vice president

"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono received Iranian Vice President/Environment Minister Fatemeh Vaiz Javadi at the Four Seasons Hotel in Bali on Thursday morning. Fatemeh`s 30-minute meeting with the Indonesian leader took place on the sidelines of the 13th Conference of...

Yudhoyono delays Europe visit over air ban: spokesman

""The president wants to make sure that... before he makes the trip to Europe that the airline ban is lifted. That's politically appropriate and psychologically appropriate too," Yudhoyono's spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said. Djalal told AFP that a visit to several European...

Indonesia has yet to receive info on 16 boat passengers

""I remain following the procedure that the information we receive should be from the official source (the Australian immigration office)," spokesman for the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra, Dino Kusnadi, told ANTARA here Thursday. Until now, the Indonesian embassy has yet to...

RI, China agree Myanmar crisis cannot be solved through pressures

"Speaking to the press after attending the closed-door meeting between Yudhoyono and Jiabao, Dino said the two leaders hoped that Yangon would exercise self-restraint and promote dialogs with the opposition to overcome the internal political crisis in that country. "China and...